apparatchiks (en)

members of a communist party apparat (apparatus)

garrison states (en)

a state organized to serve primarily its own need for military security; also : a state maintained by military power

Oder-Neisse line (en)

the international border between Germany and Poland; drawn at the Potsdam Conference in the aftermath of WWII

porto franco (en)

(Italian or Portuguese for "free port") a port or an area of a port in which imported goods can be held or processed free of customs duties before reexport.

ratchet effect (en)

(labor markets) when workers subject to performance pay choose to restrict their output, because they rationally anticipate that firms will respond to higher output levels by raising output requirements or cutting pay

Solidarność (en)

a Polish labour union that was founded on 17 September 1980;s the first trade union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by a communist party

syndical (en)

of or relating to a union of persons engaged in a particular trade