1.   After he was deposed, Afghanistan was briefly ruled by a series of puppet regimes of the Soviet Union before being engulfed in a series of wars.

2.   But any good feelings soon changed after the Kremlin replaced Amin with a puppet regime of its own, which oppressed Islamic leaders.

3.   There was a confrontation over Poland as Stalin scorned his promises for a free election, jailed non-Communist leaders and installed a puppet regime.

4.   This despite the inability of the KGB to set up a puppet regime in Chechnya, or later to anticipate the fury of the Chechen resistance to invasion.

5.   Creating a puppet regime would be a disgraceful way to end the war.

6.   During World War II, the Nazi puppet regime in Croatia slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Serbs.

7.   German troops massacred children, women and men in former Yugoslavia during World War II and set up a puppet regime in Croatia.

8.   German troops massacred children, women and men in Yugoslavia during World War II and set up a puppet regime in Croatia.

9.   Hundreds of thousands of Serbs died at Nazi hands or were killed by a fascist puppet regime in Croatia during the world war.

10.   In World War II, Croatia was independent, but under a Nazi puppet regime that murdered hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and Croat opponents.