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So-called "second world" countries included those formerly controlled by the Soviet Union and/or those more developed than "third world" nations, yet less developed than "first world" nations.

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The First World consisted of the U.S., Western Europe and their allies. The Second World was the so-called Communist Bloc: the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and friends.