what countries were satellites of the soviet union
The People 's Socialist Republic of Albania ( Satellite 1944 -- 1960 ; government extant until 1992 ) </Li> <Li> The Polish People 's Republic ( 1944 -- 1989 ) </Li> <Li> The People 's Republic of Bulgaria ( 1946 -- 1990 ) </Li> <Li> The People 's Republic of Romania ( 1947 -- 1965 ) </Li> <Li> The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic ( 1948 -- 1960 and again 1968 -- 1989 ) </Li> <Li> The German Democratic Republic ( 1949 -- 1990 ) </Li> <Li> The Hungarian People 's Republic ( 1949 -- 1989 )