Italy and France was not an Eastern European nation that was under communist control
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Italy, Spain, France, West Germany, and the United Kingdom were all major nations who were not Eastern European countries and not under communist control.
Yugoslavia was state capitalist, not Communist (which means a classless stateless society based on production for use).
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Egypt is an independent country in Africa. No European country controls it.
FRANCE was a Western European Republic during the Cold War. Conversely, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia were all Communist States during the Cold War.
A ‘Communist government’ is a contradiction in terms, as Communism means no classes and no government and no money. The question presumably refers to the state capitalist system set up under Bolshevik rule in many places.
Yes. Before the Soviet Union collapsed it was the largest Eastern European nation not a part of the Soviet Union. However after the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine became the largest Eastern European nation (excluding Russia), and the largest European nation wholly in Europe.