The Soviet Union was the actual country itself.
The Soviet Bloc was a group of supposedly independent countries which were really controlled by the Soviet Union.
Eastern Bloc or Communist Bloc
The Soviet Union was the nation called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the USSR) that had consisted of about 15 separate nation states such as Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Belorussia, Ukraine and others. It was a single nation. The Soviet bloc was a group of nations who allied themselves with the Soviet Union because their political nature was similar to that of the Soviet Union. Such nations were Bulgaria, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and others. It was not a single nation but a group of individual nations.
Group of people controlled by the Soviet Union
soviet union
Satellite NationsThey were known collectively as "The Soviet Bloc"
Eastern Bloc
communist countries led by the soviet union
The Communist Bloc was created in the late 1940s and early 1950s by the Soviet Union. Essentially, the Soviet Union took over the countries and forced them into communism.
communist countries led by the Soviet Union
They had the Soviet bloc under dictatorship.
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 breakup of the Soviet Union