The Red states represent Communist governments aligned with the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>. The Yellow states represents Communist governments aligned with the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a> (besides China itself, there were only two: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania" class="extiw" title="en:Albania">en:Albania</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Kampuchea" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Kampuchea">Democratic Kampuchea</a>). The Black states (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Korea" class="mw-redirect" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia" class="mw-redirect" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>) represent the Communist governments that were not aligned with either. Map as of 2006.
The original uploader was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:24630" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:User:24630">24630</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:">English Wikipedia</a>.
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