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List of Countries of the Second World

The term "Second World" refers to the former communist-socialist, industrial states, the territory and sphere of influence of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic (Soviet Union).

Communist Yugoslavia was the only eastern European country which was not aligned with the Soviet Union.

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Second World Country List
Country	formerly part of:	Region
Albania	*	Southern Europe
Armenia	Soviet Union	Western Asia
Azerbaijan	Soviet Union	Western Asia
Belarus	Soviet Union	Eastern Europe
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Yugoslavia	Southern Europe
Bulgaria		Eastern Europe
Croatia	Yugoslavia	Southern Europe
Czech Republic	Czechoslovakia	Eastern Europe
Estonia	annexed by the Soviet Union**	Northern Europe
Georgia	Soviet Union	Western Asia
East Germany		Western Europe
Hungary		Eastern Europe
Kazakhstan	Soviet Union	South-Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan	Soviet Union	South-Central Asia
Latvia	annexed by Soviet Union**	Northern Europe
Lithuania	annexed by Soviet Union**	Northern Europe
Macedonia, Rep. of	Yugoslavia	Southern Europe
Moldova	Soviet Union	Eastern Europe
Montenegro	Yugoslavia
Poland		Eastern Europe
Romania		Eastern Europe
Russia	Soviet Union	Northern Europe/Asia
Serbia	Yugoslavia	Southern Europe
Slovakia	Czechoslovakia	Eastern Europe
Slovenia	Yugoslavia	Southern Europe
Tajikistan	Soviet Union	South-Central Asia
Turkmenistan	Soviet Union	South-Central Asia
Ukraine	Soviet Union	Eastern Europe
Uzbekistan	Soviet Union	South-Central Asia


Commonwealth of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS; Russian: Содружество Независимых Государств, СНГ), sometimes also called the Russian Commonwealth, is the loose association of former Soviet Republics, set up during the breakup of the Soviet Union. The organization was founded on 8 December 1991 by the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. The creation of CIS was the attempt to form a successor entity to the Soviet Union, which was in the process of disintegrating. The founding members announced that the new alliance would be open to all former republics of the Soviet Union, and to other nations sharing the same goals. On 21 December 1991, eight additional former Soviet Republics – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, joined the CIS.

Member States of the CIS: Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Moldova Russia Tajikistan Uzbekistan	Soviet Union administrative divisions in 1984.
(Formerly) Communist States in Asia ***
China		Eastern Asia
Korea (North)	Korea	Eastern Asia
Lao PDR		South East Asia
Mongolia****	China, until 1921	Eastern Asia
Vietnam		South East Asia
* Albania broke Soviet influence in the 1960s and aligned itself with China. The forcible annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into the Soviet Union in 1940 was considered illegal by the United States and most Western European democracies and the three nations were de jure not considered parts of the Soviet Union. * This countries are considered sometimes being part of the Second World, the relatively high-income Communist countries or those with centrally planned economies in which the government owns the means of production. **** Today Mongolia is a parliamentary republic.

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