Council for Mutual Economic Assistance Совет Экономической Взаимопомощи | |
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| Founded | 8 January 1949 |
| Dissolved | 28 June 1991 |
| Preceded by | Comintern |
Comecon, officially the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, was a communist economic organization based in the Soviet Union. It existed from 1949 to 1991 and included the USSR, Warsaw Pact, Mongolia, Vietnam, and Cuba.[1] It also contained Yugoslavia as an associate member and other socialist and capitalist states as observers.[2]
- ↑ Michael C. Kaser (1967). Comecon: Integration problems of the planned economies. Oxford University Press.
- ↑ Germany (East): 'The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance' (2009). Library of Congress Country Study.