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How did the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) reflect geo-political division of the world during the cold war?

  • UPSC 2026
  • 15 marks
  • Evolution of the International Economic System

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The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon), created at a Moscow conference in January 1949 and dissolved in Budapest on 28 June 1991, was the economic face of bipolarity. Its birth, membership, rules and end followed the Cold War's political map: it was geopolitics written in economic form.

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  • Born as the mirror of the Marshall Plan
  • Membership traced the bloc's frontiers
  • Two systems that could not interlock
  • Hegemony inside the camp
  • Where the division leaked
  • End and echo
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