Editing Eastern Bloc (section)

===Other aligned states===
[[File:Communist Block.svg|thumb|250px|States that had communist governments in red, states that the Soviet Union believed at one point to be [[moving toward socialism]] in orange, and states with constitutional references to socialism in yellow]]
* {{flag|Algeria}} (1962–1991)
* {{flagicon|Bangladesh}} [[Bangladesh]] (1971–1975)
* {{flagicon|Burma|1974}} [[Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma|Burma]] ([[1962 Burmese coup d'état|1962]]–[[8888 Uprising|1988]])
* {{flag|Burundi}} (1966–1991)
* {{flag|Chad}} (1979–1982)
* {{flag|Cape Verde|1975}} (1975–1990)
* {{flag|Chile}} ([[Presidency of Salvador Allende|1970–1973]]){{efn|Soviet-Chilean alliance ended with the overthrow of the Allende government in a [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|military coup]], after which Chile became a Cold War ally of the United States. The Soviet Union would later support an [[Armed resistance in Chile (1973–1990)|armed insurgency]] against the military government until Chile returned to democracy in 1990.}}<ref>"[http://www.cepchile.cl/dms/lang_2/doc_1140.html Soviet Intelligence in Latin America During the Cold War] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228185053/http://www.cepchile.cl/dms/lang_2/doc_1140.html |date=28 February 2010 }}", Lectures by General Nikolai Leonov, Centro de Estudios Publicos (Chile), 22 September 1999.</ref>
* {{flagdeco|Comoros|1975}} [[State of the Comoros|Comoros]] (1975–1978)
* {{flag|Djibouti}} (1981–1991)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Egypt (1952–1958).svg}} [[Republic of Egypt (1953–1958)|Republic of Egypt]] (1953–1958)
** {{flagicon|Egypt|1958}} [[United Arab Republic]] (1958–1971)
*** {{flagicon|Egypt|1972}} [[History of Egypt under Anwar Sadat#Domestic policy and the Infitah{{!}}Arab Republic of Egypt]] (1971–1974)
* {{flag|Equatorial Guinea}} (1968–1979)
* {{flag|Ghana|1964}} (1960–1966)
* {{flag|Guinea}} (1960–1984)
* {{flagicon|Guinea Bissau}} [[Guinea Bissau]] (1973–1991)
* {{flag|Guyana}} (1980–1991)
* {{flag|India}} (1971–1991)
* {{flagicon|Indonesia}} [[Indonesia]] ([[Guided Democracy in Indonesia|1959–1965]])
* {{flag|Iran}} (1979–1991)
* {{flagicon|Iraq|1959}} [[First Republic of Iraq|Republic of Iraq]] (1958–1963)
** {{flagicon|Iraq|1963}} [[Arab Socialist Union (Iraq)|Nasserist Iraq]] (1963–1968)
*** {{flagicon|Ba'athist Iraq}} [[Ba'athist Iraq]] (1968–1979)
* {{flag|Israel}} ([[David Ben-Gurion|1948–1953]])<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Forgotten Friendship: Israel and the Soviet Bloc 1947–1953|first=Ilana|last=Kass|journal=[[American Political Science Review]]|volume=71|issue=3|date=September 1977|pages=1304–1305|doi=10.2307/1960285 |jstor=1960285 |s2cid=146764535 |issn=0003-0554}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|Libya|1972}} [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi#Libyan Arab Republic (1969–1977)|Libyan Arab Republic]] (1969–1977)
** {{flagicon|Libya|1977}} [[Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]] (1977–1991)
* {{flag|Mali}} (1960–1991)
* {{flagdeco|Mauritania|1959}} [[Republic of Mauritania (1960-1978)|Mauritania]] (1961–[[1984 Mauritanian coup d'état|1984]])
* {{flag|Peru}} ([[Juan Velasco Alvarado#Military dictatorship (1968–1975)|1968–1975]])
* {{flag|Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic}} (1976–1991)
* {{flag|Sao Tome and Principe}} (1975–1991)
* {{flagdeco|Seychelles|1977}} [[One-party rule in Seychelles|Seychelles]] (1977–1991)
* {{flag|Sudan}} ([[1969 Sudanese coup d'état|1969]]–[[1971 Sudanese coup d'état|1971]])
* {{flag|Suriname}} ([[1980 Surinamese coup d'état|1980]]–1987) ([[1990 Surinamese coup d'état|1990]]–1991)
* {{flagicon|United Arab Republic}} [[United Arab Republic|Nasserist Syria]] ([[1958 Syrian United Arab Republic referendum|1958]]–[[1961 Syrian coup d'état|1961]])
** {{flagicon|Syria|1980}} [[Ba'athist Syria]] ([[1963 Syrian coup d'état|1963]]–1991)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sunayama |first=Sonoko |title=Syria and Saudi Arabia: Collaboration and Conflicts in the Oil Era |publisher=I.B. Tauris |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-84511-302-5 |location=New York |pages=31}}</ref><ref name="Gasztold-Seń, Trentin, Adamec 2014"/><ref name="Ginat 150–171"/>
* {{flag|Tanzania}} (1964–1991)
* {{flag|Tunisia|1957}} (1964–1988)
* {{flagdeco|Uganda}} [[History of Uganda (1963–1971)|First Republic of Uganda]] ([[Mengo Crisis|1966]]–[[1971 Ugandan coup d'état|1971]])
**{{flagdeco|Uganda}} [[History of Uganda (1979–1986)|Third Republic of Uganda]] (1979-1980)
***{{flagdeco|Uganda}} [[National Resistance Movement|Fourth Republic of Uganda]] ([[Ugandan Bush War|1986]]-1991)
* {{flagicon|North Yemen}} [[Yemen Arab Republic|North Yemen]] ([[North Yemen civil war|1962]]–1972)
* {{flag|Zambia}} (1964–1991)
* {{flag|Zimbabwe}} (1980–1991)