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1953: Communism
At the end of 1953 the leaders of Soviet (or Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist) Communism directly controlled ten countries: the Soviet Union, seven 'satellites' in eastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania), and two in the Far East (Mongolia and North...
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