satellite country

But as a satellite country of France, Switzerland suffered the brunt of the Napoleonic debacle of 1814, and its future was to be decided in Vienna at a meeting of the powerful victors.
L’historiographie récente voit dans cet Acte de médiation le début de la Suisse « moderne ». Pays satellite de la France, la Suisse subit de plein fouet les contrecoups de la débâcle napoléonienne de 1814.
Latvians never lost hope that Latvia would one day cease to be a satellite country of the USSR.
Les Lettons n'ont jamais perdu l'espoir que la Lettonie cesserait un jour d'être un pays satellite de l'URSS.
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