Former Communist Countries

Here is the list of former communist countries.

Whether it is Russia in 1917, Mongolia in 1920, the majority of European and Asian democracies after the Second World War, Cuba in 1959, the communist regime settled in industrially underdeveloped countries. developed, endowed with a low-yield agriculture, with few raw materials (Eastern Europe) or with insufficiently developed natural resources (U.S.S.R.), with a labor force of essentially rural origin, underemployed and unskilled.

List of former communist countries

1. Afghanistan (1979-1992)
2. Albania (provisional government, 1944-1946; communist government, 1946-1992)
3. Germany (Soviet Republics of Saxony, Bremen, and Bavaria, 1918-1919; Soviet Occupation Zone, 1945-1949; East Germany, 1949-1990)
4. Angola (1975-1992)
5. Austria (Soviet military occupation, 1945-1946)
6. Benin (1975-1990)
7. Bulgaria (Soviet military occupation, 1944-1946; Communist government, 1946-1990)
8. Burkina Faso (1984-1987)
9. Cambodia (Democratic Kampuchea , 1975-1979; People’s Republic of Kampuchea/State of
10. Cambodia , 1979-1993; Provisional Government of National Union , 1994-1998)
11. Czechoslovakia ( Slovak Soviet Republic , 1919; communist government, 1948-1990)
12. China (various pro-Soviet factions, 1927-1949; Soviet Occupation of Manchuria, 1945-1946)
13. Colombia (Republic of Marquetalia , 1948-1964)
14. Congo (1969-1992 )
15. Korea People’s Republic of Korea , 1945-1946; Provisional People’s Committee for North Korea , 1946-1948)
16. Denmark (Soviet military occupation of Bornholm, 1945-1946)
17. Estonia (Estonian Working People’s Commune , 1918-1919; Soviet occupation, 1940-1991)
18. Ethiopia (Derg, 1974-1987; People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, 1987-1991)
19. Finland (Socialist Workers’ Republic of Finland , 1918; Democratic Republic of Finland , 1939–1940)
20. France (Soviet Republic of Alsace, 1918-1919)
21. Grenada (1979-1983)
22. Greece (Political Committee for National Liberation, 1944-1949)
23. Hungary (Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1919; communist government, 1946-1989)
24. Iran (Persian Soviet Socialist Republic , 1919-1921; Soviet military occupation, 1941-1946; People’s
25. Government of Azerbaijan, 1945-1946; Republic of Mahabad, 1946-1947)
26. Ireland (Limerick Soviet, 1919)
27. Japan (Soviet military occupation of the Kuril Islands, 1945)
28. Latvia (Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic , 1918-1920; Soviet occupation, 1940-1991)
29. Lithuania (Lithuanian-Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic , 1919; Soviet occupation, 1940-1991)
30. Mongolian (1924-1992 )
31. Mozambique (1975-1990 )
32. Norway (Soviet military occupation of Northern Norway, 1944-1946)
33. Poland (Galician Socialist Soviet Republic, 1920; communist government, 1945–1989)
34. Romania (Soviet Occupation of Romania, 1944-1947; Communist government, 1947-1989)
35. Russia (1917-1922; Soviet Union, 1922-1991)
36. Somalia (1969-1991)
37. Yemen (South Yemen, 1967-1990)
38. Yugoslavia (communist government, 1945-1992)

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Sources: PinterPandai, Study, Infoplease

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