Between 1945 and 1949 stalin created a russian empire in eastern europe.
List of soviet satellite states.
Soviet satellite states in europe included.
One important thing to remember.
Each had a communist government.
In the west they were called satellites because they clung closely to the soviet union like satellites round a planet.
Although yugoslavia had a communist government marshal tito remained independent of control from moscow.
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The people s socialist republic of albania satellite 1944 1960.
These were called satellite states because they bordered russia and while the nations were technically independent they were under soviet control.
Government extant until 1992 the polish people s republic 1944 1989 the people s republic of bulgaria 1946 1990 the people s republic of romania 1947 1965 the czechoslovak socialist republic 1948 1989.
This empire included poland hungary romania bulgaria czechoslovakia and east germany.
Pages in category soviet satellite states the following 13 pages are in this category out of 13 total.
Soviet satellite states are the countries that remained occupied by the soviet union at the end of world war ii and had their governments replaced by governments based on the soviet model.