11.   They accused the United States of trying to stack the United Nations with puppet Latin American states.

12.   Until economic changes spurred by the collapse of the Soviet Union began transforming the region, Laos was a near puppet state of Vietnam.

13.   Whereas John Paul rose to power in a Polish church fiercely opposed to the Soviet puppet state, Pius worked in an air of convivial diplomacy.

14.   Yeltsin, before arriving in Helsinki, voiced strong opposition to the admission of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and other former communist puppet states into NATO.

15.   Pyongyang does not recognize the Seoul government, calling it a U.S. puppet state.

16.   A government delegation on Sunday led Croats in marking the anniversary of the struggle by anti-fascist units against the Croatian World War II Nazi puppet state.

17.   Although many Croats fought against the pro-German regime of Ante Pavelic, which ran the camps, many others supported the Nazi puppet state.

18.   But a souring of relations between Croatia and Serbia led to the birth of the Croatian fascist movement and a Nazi puppet state.

19.   But the communist North refuses to talk with what it calls a puppet state.

20.   Croatia was a puppet state of Nazi Germany and loyalties to Germany remain to this day.