Eastern Bloc
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The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc, the Soviet Bloc, the Socialist Bloc and the Workers Bloc, was an unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Afric
1950 Soviet stamp, depicting the flags and peoples of communist states at the time, including those of Eastern Europe
The Big Three (British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin) at the Yalta Conference, February 1945
German civilians watching Western supply planes at Berlin Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Airlift
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, once the most dominant landmark in Baku, was demolished in the 1930s under Stalin.
After World War II, emigration restrictions were imposed by countries in the Eastern Bloc, which consisted of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. Legal emigration
Konrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire into West Berlin on 15 August 1961, three days after construction began on the Berlin Wall
Rare Soviet "type 2" visa for permanent emigration
A line for the distribution of cooking oil in Bucharest, Romania in May 1986
Sudeten Germans expelled after World War II