Second most powerful Communist Nation during the Cold War?

[JasonDebenah89]

Which Communist country in your opinion was the second most powerful in the Cold War after the Soviet Union?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Albania (sane)

[ApatheticAustrian]

would be needed to define "power", otherwise china.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What an odd question to ask. In any event East Germany, Czecho and Poland were all puppet states and Romania was mostly one, so I'm struggling to understand why you would include them.

[SoLongAtlas]

PRC

[Blue3]

This poll would have been more interesting if you were looking for #3, and excluded both the Soviets and Chinese.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Yugoslavia is 3rd.

[Axel Foley]

Titoist Yugoslavia had an enormous prestige.

CRVENA ZVEZDA!

[Kingpoleon]

Calling Yugoslavia "Communist" is like calling India "NATO-aligned" in that it overestimates and simplifies the truth.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

East Germany maybe for #3? By the 1970's and 1980's the East German's had by far the highest GDP per capita in the Eastern Bloc. Putin said he was jealous of the East German abundance of jeans and other consumer goods compared to the USSR, when he was stationed there as a KGB agent in the 1980's.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

One could argue that the Soviet Union was. After all the People's Republic of China was willing to engage the west directly in Korea and without Mao's support it's doubtful that Hồ could have succeeded in Vietnam.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

East Germany maybe for #3? By the 1970's and 1980's the East German's had by far the highest GDP per capita in the Eastern Bloc. Putin said he was jealous of the East German abundance of jeans and other consumer goods compared to the USSR, when he was stationed there as a KGB agent in the 1980's.

Heh, we used to make comparisions between Poland and East Germany: they have more luxury goods, but far less freedom (People's Republic of Poland was perhaps the least represive regime after 1956).

[TDAS04]

Calling Yugoslavia "Communist" is like calling India "NATO-aligned" in that it overestimates and simplifies the truth.

Not exactly, Yugoslavia claimed to be Communist, just like China does today when it's very capitalist.  Calling Yugoslavia "Warsaw Pact-aligned" would be the equivalent to calling India "NATO-aligned."

[Murica!]

Calling Yugoslavia "Communist" is like calling India "NATO-aligned" in that it overestimates and simplifies the truth.

So the nation which had a literal socialist economy was the least socialist*?

*I refuse to use the word Communist in relation to any nation state

[dead0man]

Calling Yugoslavia "Communist" is like calling India "NATO-aligned" in that it overestimates and simplifies the truth.

Not exactly, Yugoslavia claimed to be Communist, just like China does today when it's very capitalist.  Calling Yugoslavia "Warsaw Pact-aligned" would be the equivalent to calling India "NATO-aligned."

or the PRC " very capitalist".  "capitalist" govts don't control all the banks and important industries in a country.

[Murica!]

Calling Yugoslavia "Communist" is like calling India "NATO-aligned" in that it overestimates and simplifies the truth.

Not exactly, Yugoslavia claimed to be Communist, just like China does today when it's very capitalist.  Calling Yugoslavia "Warsaw Pact-aligned" would be the equivalent to calling India "NATO-aligned."

or the PRC " very capitalist".  "capitalist" govts don't control all the banks and important industries in a country.

But they are producing for profit, no? China very much is capitalist, regardless of who owns said capital.

[Intell]

Calling Yugoslavia "Communist" is like calling India "NATO-aligned" in that it overestimates and simplifies the truth.

Not exactly, Yugoslavia claimed to be Communist, just like China does today when it's very capitalist.  Calling Yugoslavia "Warsaw Pact-aligned" would be the equivalent to calling India "NATO-aligned."

or the PRC " very capitalist".  "capitalist" govts don't control all the banks and important industries in a country.

Socialist Countries, also don't have business, which are in essence controlled by chinese companies, for their enormous profit.

[Senator-elect Spark]

China, they had the most influence over Eastern Asia.