Comecon

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance Совет Экономической Взаимопомощи
1949–1991
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Map of Comecon member states as of November 1986 Comecon as of November 1986:   Members   Members that left the Warsaw Pact (Albania)   Associate members   Observers
Headquarters	Moscow, Soviet Union
Official languages	10 languages Russian Bulgarian Czech German Hungarian Mongolian Polish Romanian Spanish Vietnamese
Type	Economic union
Member states	See list  Albania[a] Bulgaria Czechoslovakia  Cuba  East Germany[b] Hungary Mongolia Poland Romania  Soviet Union  Vietnam
Historical era	Cold War
• Organization established	25 January 1949
• Dissolution of Comecon	28 June 1991
• Dissolution of the Soviet Union	25 December 1991
Area
1960	23,422,281 km2 (9,043,393 sq mi)
1989	25,400,231 km2 (9,807,084 sq mi)
Population
• 1989	504 million
Currency	10 currencies Soviet ruble East German mark Polish złoty Czechoslovak koruna Romanian leu Bulgarian lev Hungarian forint Cuban peso Mongolian tögrög Vietnamese đồng
Succeeded by Eurasian Economic Union

Eastern Bloc
Republics of the USSR Armenia Azerbaijan Byelorussia Estonia Georgia Kazakhstan Karelia-Finland (1940–1956) Kirghizia Latvia Lithuania Moldavia Russia Tajikistan Turkmenia Transcaucasia (1922–1936) Ukraine Uzbekistan
Allied and satellite states Afghanistan (1978–1989) Albania (until 1961) Angola Benin Bulgaria China (until 1961) Congo Cuba Czechoslovakia East Germany (until 1989) Ethiopia Grenada (1979–1983) Hungary Kampuchea Laos Mongolia Mozambique North Korea Poland (until 1989) Romania (until 1989) Somalia (until 1977) South Yemen Vietnam (North Vietnam, PRG) Yugoslavia (until 1948)
Related organizations Warsaw Pact Comecon Cominform World Federation of Trade Unions World Federation of Democratic Youth
Opposition Anti-Soviet partisans Albania Bulgaria Croatia Poland Romania Serbia Ukraine Guerrilla war in the Baltic states Soviet occupation Estonia Latvia Lithuania Operation Jungle Protests and uprisings Poland 1944–1989 Poznań 1956 1980–89 Plzeň 1953 East Germany 1953 Georgia 1956 Hungary 1956 Novocherkassk 1962 Prague 1968 Invasion Moscow Czechoslovakia 1976–1990 Romania 1977 Kazakhstan 1986 Brașov 1987 Tbilisi 1989 Ukraine 1989–1991 Baku 1990 Lithuania 1991 Riga 1991 Dissent Soviet Poland East Germany to Hong Kong North Korea
Cold War events Marshall Plan Czechoslovak coup Tito–Stalin split Berlin Blockade Korean War Secret Speech Sino-Soviet split Albanian–Soviet split De-satellization of the Socialist Republic of Romania Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam War Cuban intervention in Angola Afghan War 1980 Moscow Olympics 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Gulf War
Fall Singing Revolution Polish Round Table Agreement Revolutions of 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall January Events Barricades in Latvia Breakup of Yugoslavia Yugoslav Wars End of the Soviet Union Post-Soviet conflicts Fall of communism in Albania Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
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The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance,^[c] often abbreviated as Comecon (/ˌkɒmɪˈkɒn/ KOM-ik-ON), was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of socialist states elsewhere in the world.^[1]

The descriptive term was often applied to all multilateral activities involving members of the organization, rather than being restricted to the direct functions of Comecon and its organs.^[2] This usage was sometimes extended as well to bilateral relations among members because in the system of communist international economic relations, multilateral accords – typically of a general nature – tended to be implemented through a set of more detailed, bilateral agreements.^[3]

Comecon was the Eastern Bloc's response to the formation in Western Europe of the Marshall Plan and the OEEC, which later became the OECD.^[3]

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