31.   During the Cold War, Cuba sacrificed small-scale, family-based farming in favor of large-scale cultivation of export crops for the Soviet bloc.

32.   During the Cold War, much of the Russian opera repertory was ignored outside the Soviet bloc.

33.   During the Cold War, the festival provided a valuable display window for movies from the Soviet bloc.

34.   During the Cold War the organization took on a strong anti-communist focus, concentrating primarily on conditions in the Soviet bloc.

35.   Electricity shortages are common throughout the former Soviet bloc.

36.   Experts say the former Soviet bloc is also crawling with traffickers.

37.   Few of the former Soviet bloc economies have recovered the levels of production of a decade ago.

38.   Few nations outside Europe and the collapsed former Soviet bloc are anywhere close to achieving that goal.

39.   For Greece, joining the euro is much like the dream many members of the former Soviet bloc have of joining NATO or the European Union.

40.   For the overall declaration all members voted aye except eight abstainers -- the Soviet bloc and South Africa.