Bulgarian collective farms once exported vegetables and fruit to most of the Eastern bloc.
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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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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
The southern bloc - and eastern Europe - still look to the EU funds to boost jobs and growth.
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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