Question by swordsmanofhyrule: Difference between a republic of the Soviet Union and a soviet satellite?
What’s the difference between any one of the republics of the soviet union (Ukrainian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, etc.) and the soviet satellites? In a nutshell.
I assumed that a satellite was under heavy influence of the soviet union, while republics of the soviet union were directly owned by them. Is this correct?
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Answer by Cosmic Debris
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Earth Man says
You are correct. A Soviet republic was under the direct control of the USSR. So Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, places like that.
A Soviet satellite was a nation that was ostensibly independent and sovereign, but in reality was controlled by the Soviets through threat of military action, or out-and-out having Soviets in their government. Examples would be Poland, Czechoslovakia (which is now the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovakia), and East Germany (which is now just Germany together with what used to be West Germany).
Nicholas says
The Soviet Union was made up if the following republics:
1 Russian SFSR
2 Ukrainian SSR
4 Uzbek SSR
5 Kazakh SSR
3 Belorussian SSR
7 Azerbaijan SSR
6 Georgian SSR
12 Tajik SSR
9 Moldavian SSR
11 Kirghiz SSR
8 Lithuanian SSR
14 Turkmen SSR
13 Armenian SSR
10 Latvian SSR
15 Estonian SSR
Soviet Satellites were the nations of eastern Europe which were heavily under the influence of the USSR. They were:
The People’s Republic of Albania
The People’s Republic of Bulgaria
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
The German Democratic Republic
The People’s Republic of Poland
The Socialist Republic of Romania
The People’s Republic of Hungary
Notes:
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia broke from the Soviet Union in the 1948.
The People’s Republic of Albania broke ties with the Soviet Union in 1960.
Daniel says
In Europe with one exception – Romania – were all other state occupied – they said it “brotherhood help”.
On the board were MGs, bunkers, mine fields ect. and who wanted to go away from it, who decided that such friendship is not satisfying, so he was shot mostly at the border. Everywhere.
The only difference was that this was achieved puppet governments and such countries had international subjectivity. Only a theater for others.