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Line 1: − During the Cold War, the Third World consisted of developing countries outside of the industrialized First World (United States, Western Europe and other free nations) and the Second World (communist countries like the [[USSR|Soviet Union]] and [[China]]). The Third World countries were typically not aligned with either free or communist nations, until one side or the other set up puppet regimes to promote their ideology. − The USSR is gone, but the poor will always be with us.<ref>Mark 13:7</ref>+ + + +
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During the cold war period third world referred to countries which didn't align themselves to either of the power blocks the US and its
allies and the Soviet union and its allies. These nations formed the non-aligned movement.
Nowadays third world refers to developing and undeveloped countries which have large scale poverty.