Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: The latter were referred to as the Eastern Bloc , a more common term in English than Western Bloc , because the governments and press of the Western Bloc were more inclined to refer to themselves as the `` Free World '' .
Simplified: This term was rather common , while the governments and press of the Western Bloc used to speak of themselves as the Free world .