共きょう産さん圏けん

noun

communist bloc; Iron Curtain

Historical term for the group of countries under communist rule during the Cold War, often contrasted with the Western bloc.

• 冷れい戦せん時じ代だい、東とう欧おう諸しょ国こくは共きょう産さん圏けんに属ぞくしていた。

  During the Cold War, Eastern European countries belonged to the communist bloc.

• 共きょう産さん圏けんの崩ほう壊かいは1989年ねんに始はじまった。

  The collapse of the communist bloc began in 1989.