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If Vietnam is considered to be in the Second World then Cambodia and Laos both also need to be considered in the Second World, not the Third, as they currently are in the map.

In 1975 when Vietnam was unified under Communist rule, both Cambodia and Laos also came under Communist rule. Cambodia was in the Chinese camp until the Vietnamese invasion of 1979 when it joined the rest of Indo-China in the Soviet camp.

All three countries remain to this day under Communist rule or their successor politicians and parties, and all three were certainly under Communist rule during the Cold War post-1975, the period measured by the map, for the most part in the Soviet camp. This meets the requirements for Second World status.

The map should be edited to change Cambodia and Laos from the Third World to the Second World. 58.173.49.252 (talk) 12:57, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yugoslavia, though Communist, broke with Stalin and cozied up to NATO early on in the cold war. It was a darling of the first world left, and received lots of funding from NATO members. Tito viewed Yugoslavia as a cornerstone of the Non-Aligned Movement, alongside Egypt and India. While "third world" has connotations of poor economic development that do not apply to cold war-era Yugoslavia, it is still more accurate than listing it as a "Soviet Bloc" nation. Others may disagree, of course.