nonaligned

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While officially nonaligned, India drew close to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, while the U.S. backed Pakistan, India’s bitter enemy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

It concentrates on five satellite states that spent the later 20th century under the thumb of Moscow — Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania — as well as the nonaligned socialist state of Yugoslavia.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2024

Throughout the Cold War, India would be a leader of what came to be known as the nonaligned movement — formerly colonized nations that sought to develop independently of both American and Soviet influence.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2023

Opposition dropped 7 points among Democrats, to 68%, and 11 points among nonaligned voters, to 56%.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2023

Bulgaria also sought to continue cultivating and developing friendly relations with nonaligned friendly countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.