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Albania became the ultimate closed state, with no official contact with either the United States or the Soviet Union, and virtually no cultural or economic contact with the rest of Europe.
Eastern Europe!
Tomek E. Jankowski
Despite the enormous wealth of the Gulf States, the Arab world has experienced little or no industrial revolution. At its core it remains backward-looking and feudal in structure, with the oil paying for an army of foreigners to keep the economic wheels turning
A second but simultaneous expansion of the Cold War occurred in East Asia, where on October 1, 1949—a week after Truman’s announcement of the Soviet atomic bomb—a victorious Mao Zedong proclaimed the formation of the People’s Republic of China
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
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