Soviet Union Satellite States

Stalin s main motive for the creation of soviet satellite states in eastern europe was the need for security.

Soviet union satellite states. The spacecraft named sputnik after the russian word for satellite was. Soviet union in full union of soviet socialist republics u s s r russian soyuz sovetskikh sotsialisticheskikh respublik or sovetsky soyuz former northern eurasian empire 1917 22 1991 stretching from the baltic and black seas to the pacific ocean and in its final years consisting of 15 soviet socialist republics s s r s. In the meantime state after state in eastern europe fell under communist control and soviet influence. Soviet satellite states interwar period.

The soviet satellite states were yugoslavia albania czechoslovakia east germany poland romania and hungary. When the war ended the soviet union was the only communist country in the world and stalin believed that western countries were bent on destroying it. These were called satellite states because they bordered russia and while the nations were technically independent they were under soviet control. The story of two countries will serve to illustrate the nature of the soviet takeover.

The soviet union inaugurates the space age with its launch of sputnik the world s first artificial satellite. The map above illustrates the manner in which satellite states were created by the soviet union. These countries were the closest allies of the soviet union and were members of the comecon a soviet led economic community founded in 1949 as well as the warsaw pact sometimes called the eastern bloc in english and widely viewed as soviet satellite states these countries were occupied or had a period occupied by soviet army and their politics military foreign and domestic. These countries included albania poland bulgaria romania czechoslovakia hungary and east germany.