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Eastern bloc

 
     
  The term which, during the Cold War, was often used in the West to refer to the Soviet Union and its East European satellites. Also called the Soviet bloc. The term was frowned on by purists as implying greater homogeneity in domestic policies than was the case.  
 

 

 

 
 
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