satellite state
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North Korea is preparing to launch its first military spy satellite, state media has reported.
From Reuters • May 24, 2023
Thus, Tito believed it should be treated by the Soviet Union as an equal, not as a satellite state to which it gave orders.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
They capture a part of the late ’80s in what was then Czechoslovakia, a Soviet satellite state.
From The Verge • Jan. 15, 2022
Hungary, an ally of Nazi Germany during World War II, became a satellite state of the Soviet Union after the war.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2018
It became a Soviet satellite state following the war, but its government was comparatively tolerant and progressive.
From The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency