What is Council for Mutual Economic Assistance?
The '''Council for Mutual Economic Assistance''' (<small>'''COMECON'''</small>) was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the [[Soviet Union]] that consisted of [[Eastern Bloc]] countries along with other [[socialist]] states all over the world.<ref>{{cite book|title=Comecon: Integration problems of the planned economies|url=https://archive.org/details/comecon0000unse|last=Kaser|first=Michael C.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1967|isbn=|location=|pages=}}</ref> Comecon was set up to stop countries in the Soviet [[sphere of influence]] from moving towards that of the [[capitalist]] [[United States]] and the [[Western world|West]]. Comecon was how the Eastern Bloc responded to the [[Marshall Plan]] of the United States. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1949 establishments]] [[Category:1991 disestablishments]] [[Category:20th century in Vietnam]] [[Category:Cold War]] [[Category:Economic history]] [[Category:Economics organizations]] [[Category:20th century in Europe]] [[Category:History of the Soviet Union]] [[Category:Politics of the Soviet Union]] [[Category:Socialism]]