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| | Soviet Bloc. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002 |
 | | The communist nations closely allied with the Soviet Union, including Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, whose foreign policies depended on those of the former Soviet Union. |
 | | It did not include communist nations with independent foreign policies, such as China, Yugoslavia, and Albania. |
 | | The Soviet Union used its military force several times in the Soviet Bloc to ensure that the countries governments followed Soviet preferences: in East Germany in 1953, in Hungary and Poland in 1956, and in Czechoslovakia in 1968, for example. |
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