Answer:
They both believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should freely determine their own governments. to prevent the spread of communism, provided close to $13 billion to rebuild wartorn Europe.
Step-by-step explanation:
The Communist Bloc, the Socialist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Southeast Asia under the hegemony of the Soviet Union (USSR) during the Cold War (1947–1991) in opposition to the capitalist Western Bloc.