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COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, or CMEA) (1949–91)
An economic organization set up by the Soviet Union in response to the marshall plan and OEEC. It originally consisted of the Soviet satellite states of Eastern Europe (Albania was expelled in 1961), but was later joined by Mongolia (1962), Cuba (1972) and Vietnam (1978). Yugoslavia had a ‘special’ but non-member status. comecon was the economic equivalent of the cominform and imposed economic uniformity on Soviet satellites: all had Five Year Plans, the nationalization of industry, the collectivization of agriculture and all took their orders from Moscow. Through it the USSR tried to create a self-sufficient regional economy, separate from the capitalist global economy .