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The expression is most commonly used to describe the Central and Eastern European countries of the Warsaw pact during the Cold War, which were within the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union (from 1945- 1948 until 1989). Cuba was also accused of being a Soviet satellite once it began to receive economic and military aid from the country.
The Eastern bloc did not accept this description and presented itself as a group of independent and equal countries. The bloc also accused the United States of having satellite states in NATOThe North Atlantic Treaty Organisation NATO , sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance is an international organization for defense collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed such as ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer, FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. and West GermanyWest Germany was the informal but almost universally used name for the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 until 1990, during which years the Federal Republic did not yet include the eastern part of Germany. Since the German reunification of 1990, the F.
Other great powersIn the context of international relations and diplomacy, power (sometimes clarified as international power national power or state power is the ability of one state to influence or control other states. States with this ability are called powers middle po, including the Nazi GermanyNazi Germany or the Third Reich commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933 1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of National Socialism with Adolf Hitler as dictator. The term Nazi is a short form of the German, and the People's Republic of ChinaThe People's Republic of China PRC comprises most of the cultural, historic, and geographic area known as China. Since its founding in 1949, it has been led by the Communist Party of China (CPC). It is the world's most populous country, with a population, are sometimes also said to have (or have had) satellites.