Indeed, there are numerous factors that could compel the Indians to join in this eastern bloc.
Bulgarian collective farms once exported vegetables and fruit to most of the Eastern bloc.
Real change to the extent it is occurring in the Eastern bloc is a product of conversion, not compromise.
The communist regime in Czechoslovakia had been, along with those of East Germany and Bulgaria, among the most repressive Eastern bloc governments.
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Eastern bloc weightlifters used steroids to great success in the 1952 Olympics.
U. member, one wonders if Poland and other former Eastern Bloc countries have really turned the corner in economic development and conducting business.
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Will the Sandinistas agree to end all cooperation with the intelligence and military services of the Soviet Union, Cuba and other Eastern bloc nations?
It mentioned the integration of the former communist eastern bloc countries.
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Living in post-Franco Spain, along with his visits to former Eastern Bloc countries like Hungary and Romania, taught him something about dictatorships in transition, he says.
Recent changes in the Eastern bloc have yielded enormous security benefits for the West, none of them to the credit of arms control or peace diplomacy.
Is this proposed venture representative of the approach our allies will take in the event the present controls on technology transfer to the Eastern bloc are relaxed?
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the uprising against the Soviets in the Eastern Bloc has not been duplicated by the recent Arab Spring revolution in the Middle East.
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Vineyards were adapted for other uses, and what was left was set to producing mass quantities of harsh reds and pallid whites for export to Russia, Poland and elsewhere in the Eastern bloc.
The senior officials representing the United States at this session will face powerful demands from many of their counterparts to liberalize the controls governing the transfer of sophisticated, militarily critical to the Eastern bloc.
Even then, it is simply a matter of time before the taxpayer burden associated with the cumulative impact of shouldering these and other Eastern bloc liabilities is seen as unsupportable by U.S. and allied electorates.
"In light of acute and strategically consequential uncertainties, U.S. policies toward the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc must be based upon more than an ill-considered, open-ended desire to help Gorbachev's perestroika succeed, " says Frank J.
Consequently, incredible though it may sound, the United States is being told that the process of economic resuscitation in the Eastern bloc requires a massive infusion of strategically sensitive technologies and, therefore, the easing of COCOM restrictions.
The church, not the state, organized these vast assemblies a crucial experience that would be put to use in the Solidarity rallies that led to martial law in 1981 and, ultimately, to the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1989.
American representatives should similarly be directed to insist that no consideration be given to creating special exceptions or preferential treatment by COCOM for Soviet bloc nations that remain within the Warsaw Pact and the framework of corresponding Eastern bloc intelligence arrangements.
Uefa held an inspection over the summer on the suitability of stadiums and infrastructure and although the report was believed to be critical, Uefa's executive committee said its decision to award the event to the former Eastern bloc nations was final.
In an article published in National Review, Pacepa, who when he defected to the US in 1978 became the highest ranking Soviet-bloc defector, claimed that in the late 1950s the KGB began perceiving the Catholic Church as the primary threat to its control over Eastern Bloc countries.
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He got hunting rifles from communist East Germany's Erich Honecker and Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu and all the other Eastern-bloc guys.
The southern bloc - and eastern Europe - still look to the EU funds to boost jobs and growth.
The Commission and national governments co-finance development projects, and former Soviet bloc countries in Central and Eastern Europe are big recipients because communism left them with some dilapidated infrastructure.
Poland is the largest of a dozen mainly eastern European candidates in talks on joining the western bloc, which hopes to expand its membership from 2004 onwards.
The idea of applying these fracing techniques to Europe is appealing, especially in Eastern and Central Europe, where the former Soviet bloc countries still largely depend on imported natural gas from Russia for domestic consumption.
While Russia and some African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries want to tax foreign content providers and track web-based traffic, the EU has formed a bloc with the US to kibosh any such changes.
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