Question

What do you mean by second world ?

Answer 1

Answer:

The term “Second World country” is a term used during the Cold War to refer to the industrial socialist states that were under the influence of the Soviet Union. ... Second World countries were the Eastern bloc of communist-socialist states.

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The "second world" includes countries that were once controlled by the Soviet Union. Second world countries were centrally planned economies and one-party states. Notably, the use of the term "second world" to refer to Soviet countries largely fell out of use in the early 1990s, shortly after the end of the Cold War.