This helped them to enjoy rapidly improving economies, while those states in COMECON were struggling in a large part due to the cost of the Cold War. |
Later, the Comecon supplied aid to the eventually victorious Communist Party of China, and saw its influence grow elsewhere in the world. |
Comecon and the Warsaw Pact were dissolved, and in 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. |
While it did not repudiate either Comecon or the Warsaw Pact, it ceased to play a significant role in either. |