Sure, I leave in a former communist country, this isn't news to me. But the expression "third world" arose to mean "neither NATO nor Warsaw pact" and only late

Sure, I leave in a former communist country, this isn't news to me. But the expression "third world" arose to mean "neither NATO nor Warsaw pact" and only later started to mean "poor" because most of the countries in this group were. See wikipedia's references[0]. There were poorer countries in the communist block, and richer non-aligned ones. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World#Etymology