Eastern Bloc

English

Proper noun

the Eastern Bloc

2. (geopolitics, historical) The largely Communist countries of the eastern world, usually Eastern Europe and especially in the Cold War era.

   Holonyms: Soviet Bloc (sometimes loosely synonymous) < Second World < world, World

   Comeronyms: Western Bloc < free world; First World

Translations

the communist countries of the eastern world

• Arabic: اَلْكُتْلَة الشَّرْقِيَّة f (al-kutla š-šarqiyya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 東方集團 / 东方集团 (Dōngfāng Jítuán)

• Czech: východní blok m
• Danish: østblok c
• Dutch: Oostblok (nl) n
• Finnish: itäblokki (fi)
• French: pays de l'Est (fr) m, bloc de l'Est (fr) m
• Georgian: სოციალისტური ბანაკი (socialisṭuri banaḳi), აღმოსავლეთის ბლოკი (aɣmosavletis bloḳi)
• German: Ostblock (de) m
• Greek: Ανατολικό μπλοκ n (Anatolikó blok)
• Japanese: 東側諸国 (ja) (ひがしがわしょこく, Higashi-gawa shokoku)
• Korean: 동구권(東歐圈) (donggugwon)
• Mongolian: Зүүн эвсэл (Züün evsel)
• Polish: blok wschodni m
• Romanian: Blocul Răsăritean n, Lagărul Socialist, Blocul Comunist n
• Russian: Восто́чный блок m (Vostóčnyj blok), ("socialist camp") Социалисти́ческий ла́герь m (Socialistíčeskij lágerʹ)
• Swedish: östblocket (sv) n
• Vietnamese: Khối phía Đông

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