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The Tuvan People's Republic was proclaimed a nominally independent state in 1921, although it was tightly controlled by Moscow and is considered a satellite state of the Soviet Union until 1944, when the USSR annexed it into the Russian SFSR. [9] Another early Soviet satellite state in Asia was the short-lived Far Eastern Republic in Siberia. [9]
The term has also been applied to states which are extremely economically dependent on a more powerful nation. The three Pacific Ocean countries associated with the United States under the Compact of Free Association (the Federated States of Micronesia , the Marshall Islands , and Palau ) have been called client states.
East Germany was the most advanced industrial nation of the Eastern Bloc. [186] Until the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, East Germany was considered a weak state, hemorrhaging skilled labor to the West such that it was referred to as "the disappearing satellite". [222]
A puppet state, puppet régime, puppet government or dummy government [1] is a state that is de jure independent but de facto completely dependent upon an outside power and subject to its orders. [2]
Soviet satellite states — the Communist satellite states of the Soviet Union The Soviet states were primarily part of the Soviet Eastern Bloc in Eastern Europe ; and in Central Asia . See also the categories Former socialist republics and Soviet republics
This is a list of puppet states sponsored, created, or controlled by an occupying member of the Axis or Allied powers in World War II.. These puppet states or régimes claimed to enjoy full, complete, and independent sovereignty, but took at least some direction from their countries' occupiers. [1]
The following is a list of the largest satellite cities worldwide, with over 500,000 people. A satellite city is defined as subordinate to a central city in a business or infrastructure sense, and it may or may not have more population than the central city due to arbitrary municipal definitions. Excluded are transborder agglomerations.
Satellite state is the standard term, and is preferable to satellite nation because 'nation' implies characteristics such as national identity. Being a satellite is a charcateristic of states, rather than nations.