Council for Mutual Economic Assistance

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The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance was a Soviet-led economic organization that coordinated trade and development among socialist countries during the Cold War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf intergovernmental organization
international economic organization
abbreviation CMEA
COMECON
continent Europe
coordinatedWith Warsaw Pact
counterpartOf European Economic Community
currencyUnit transferable ruble
dissolved 1991
dissolvedDate 1991-06-28
economicModel central planning coordination
foundedBy Soviet Union
foundingLocation Moscow
foundingTreaty Agreement on the Establishment of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
headquartersCountry Soviet Union
headquartersLocation Moscow
ideology Marxism–Leninism
socialism
inception 1949
inceptionDate 1949-01-25
legalStatus treaty-based organization
mainOrgan Council Session
Executive Committee
Secretariat
memberState Albania
Bulgaria
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
German Democratic Republic
linked to: East Germany

Hungary
Mongolia
Poland
Romania
Soviet Union
Vietnam
linked to: Viet Nam
nativeName Совет экономической взаимопомощи
nonMemberParticipant Yugoslavia
officialLanguage Russian
operatedInPeriod Cold War
politicalAlignment Eastern Bloc
Soviet sphere of influence
linked to: Eastern Bloc
purpose coordination of trade
economic cooperation
socialist economic integration
regionServed Eastern Europe
Soviet Union
parts of Asia
replacedBy bilateral trade agreements among successor states
shortName CMEA
COMECON
tradeSystem clearing ruble system

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Eastern Bloc regimes memberOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Czechoslovakia memberOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party alignedWith Comecon
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Bulgarian Communist Party alignedWith Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
East Germany memberOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Czechoslovak Communist Party participatedIn Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance shortName COMECON
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance shortName CMEA
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance nativeName Совет экономической взаимопомощи
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance abbreviation COMECON
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance abbreviation CMEA
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance foundingTreaty Agreement on the Establishment of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Soviet–Hungarian relations economicFramework Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Eastern Bloc economicOrganization Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Polish People’s Republic memberOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Polish–Soviet relations hasKeyOrganization Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Bulgarian Communist Party affiliation Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (through the Bulgarian state)
subject linked to: BCP
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Eastern and Central Europe hasEconomicOrganization Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Council Session partOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Council Session parentOrganization Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Council Session relatedTo Comecon
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Executive Committee of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance partOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
subject linked to: Executive Committee
Executive Committee of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance parentOrganization Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
subject linked to: Executive Committee
Executive Committee of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance reportsTo Council for Mutual Economic Assistance Council
subject linked to: Executive Committee
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Executive Committee of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance dissolvedWith Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
subject linked to: Executive Committee
Secretariat of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance partOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
subject linked to: Secretariat
Secretariat of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance parentOrganization Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
subject linked to: Secretariat
transferable ruble usedBy Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
transferable ruble usedBy Comecon member states
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
transferable ruble currencyOf Comecon clearing system
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
transferable ruble introducedBy Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
People's Socialist Republic of Albania alliance Comecon
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Hungarian Communist Party alignedWith Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Estonian SSR wasMemberOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Tatra market Comecon countries
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Government of Czechoslovakia memberOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Warsaw Pact airlines influencedBy COMECON economic coordination
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Hungarian People's Republic memberOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Romanian People’s Republic memberOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Polska Ludowa sojuszMiędzynarodowy Rada Wzajemnej Pomocy Gospodarczej
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Polish People's Republic memberOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
subject linked to: PRL
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic memberOf Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party associatedWithOrganization Comecon
linked to: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance