To speak of Eastern Europe or the Soviet bloc obviously en<br > tails more than the five countriesmBulgariaCzechoslovakia<br > HungaryPolandand Romaniawtreated in this bookIt<br > means Yugoslavia as well as East Germany<br > Except for certain comparative referenceshoweverI have<br > excluded fuller treatment of them from this book for several<br > reaSOnS<br > In the case of Yugoslaviathough certainly a Slavic and<br > East European countryit must be remembered that it re<br > gards itself as nonaligned and is not a member of either the<br > Warsaw Pact or the Council for Mutual Economic Coopera<br > tion(Comecon)the Soviet blocScommon marketThough<br > certainly a Communist countryits relations with the S oviet<br > Union and the USSRS more loyal allies have been strained<br > since x948 and the form of Communism practiced there is SO<br >