Comecon
Comecon (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance), also abbreviated CEMA and CMEA, the organization was
established in 1949 to promote economic cooperation among
socialist bloc countries and is headquartered in Moscow. Its
members as of 1989 included the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Cuba,
Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic (East Germany),
Hungary, Poland, Mongolia, Romania, and Vietnam. Mongolia, the
first non-European member, joined Comecon in 1962 and has
traditionally been a supplier of raw materials to the Soviet
Union.
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