Comecon and Cominform Flashcards
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Cominform
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Military method
2
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describe cominfrom
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Controlled by soviets
Stands for Communist information Bureau (political)
Controlled governments of eastern union
Stalin set up the cominform in 1947 as an organisation to coordinate the communist governments in eastern europe
The office was originally based in belgrade in yugoslavia but moved to Bucharest in Romania in 1948 after yugoslavia was expelled by stalin because it would not do what the soviets instructed them to do
Comiform ran meetings and sent out instructions to communist governments about what the soviet union wanted them to do
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comecon
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com ECON
economic side