Proper noun
the Soviet Bloc
(historical) The largely Communist countries of the eastern world, usually those in Eastern Europe and Asia aligned with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the Cold War era.
Hence Panarin sees the ‘velvet revolution’ in Czechoslovakia (1989), and the ‘colour revolutions’ in other former Soviet bloc states, along with the ‘Arab Spring’, as manifestations of American geopolitical strategy. Source: Internet
It was social media that played a pivotal role, with sponsorship from globalist interests, in the fomenting of ‘colour revolutions’ in the former Soviet bloc states and across North Africa. Source: Internet
In addition, while some participants in Soviet bloc protests in 1989 and Taiwan’s Wild Lily Movement the next year cited Beijing events as a source of inspiration, the Umbrella Movement did not exert the same cross-border influence. Source: Internet