By the threat of killing you if you disagreed with the USSR's directives.
Lemmy Shitpost
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By the threat of killing you if you disagreed with the USSR's directives. Plus those satellite countries were meant to provide a buffer to the USSR if another world war was triggered. Better to fight a war in someone else's home rather than your own. A hard lesson learned from WW2.
Putin is pretty much trying to re-establish that buffer while pillaging his neighbors of their wealth. It doesn't seem to be working well for him.