The communist revolution in Yugoslavia took place during and immediately after WW2, after which Marshall Tito broke ties with Moscow in 1948. The Warsaw Pact wasn't formed until the mid 1950's.
Yup, and the moon isn't made of cheese and chickens don't have lips. Not that any of this has anything to do with which countries USED TO BE part of the Warsaw Pact.
Any chance you could accept CSSR for Czechoslovakia? Not sure how commonly used that abbreviation is in English, Wikipedia does list it as the official abbreviation of the country though.
An exception doesn't negate the rule. It has been in fact poorer than Western Europe, and less developed. This is not a judgement of value but a statement of fact.
A lot also suffered significant damage during WWII and took a while to recover from that. To be fair, a lot of Europe, communist or capitalist, took a while to recover from WWII. The US just sped the process up in the West with the Marshall Plan.
Yeah but east was still under developed due to lack of interest to invest in these regions during industrialization. Most of the trade was within the country and Eastern Europe was on the edge of empires, so they didn't need to develop as much there. Have east not been under communism that gap could have been nulled in those 80 years.
Szatan - maybe try googling better before you comment on that. Before and after WWI, Czechia (the western part of Czechoslovakia) was much more better of than Austria.
When we founded the Warsaw Pact, there were seven nations involved. Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, GDR, CSSR and the USSR. That's not a grand coalition. We can do better.
To me, that would be confusing because doesn't Czechia refer to the Czech portion of the unified country Czechoslovakia, and the also current country Czechia (aka Czech Republic)?