Laos maintained close ties with the former Soviet Union and its eastern bloc allies.
Eastern Bloc
command economy
The iron curtain divided the world into the eastern and western bloc.
Controlled economies were common in eastern bloc countries.
Many did in fact escape via other other East European countries, but it wasn't that easy, as contact between the entire Eastern Bloc and the West was controlled.
Any communist country besides the Soviet Union was considered an "eastern bloc satellite nation."
A group of communistic countries, under the rule of the Soviet Union, that were located in Europe and blocked the Soviet Union from European attacks.
The US has already developed. Many of the emerging former Communist Bloc nations of Eastern Europe could be considered developing.
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The USSR
soviet union