Stalin was all for continuing the control

He obviously wouldn’t want to give up his newly won territory would he?

Stalin controlled the land after 1948 as much as the Americans and Brits controlled France

As well as Italy

France left NATO so I would hardly call them a puppet

The amount of poor partisans who lost their lives to CIA...

France was basically forced into NATO

"Join or die"

But they left, so how do you explain that?

France is still in NATO, what are you talking about

France left NATO, during the Cold War, and then rejoined after it ended

Because of the Gaullists and socialist party?

Any and all uprisings that occurred even outside of NATO, in Western Europe were crushed by it

Take COINTELPRO for example

The French government may have been away from NATO, but its implications and debt to it were immense

But by leaving NATO they showed their own independence

They weren’t a puppet of USA anymore

Were they really independent though

Unlike Poland

Austria isn't in NATO, yet it's still a puppet

Who was its owner then?

Mostly America

Obviously not the Soviets, because they would have been FORCED to join the Warsaw Pact

Warsaw governments agreed to join Warsaw Pact

“Agreed”

And Warsaw Pact was a reaction to the western aggressiveness

In NATO

Stalin actually applied to join NATO, but when rejected, it was clear it was an act of aggression towards the Soviet Union

Poland was a puppet state. Are you denying that?

If The Soviet Union joined NATO, then that would defeat the whole purpose wouldn’t it?

Poland has almost always been a puppet state ever since its collapse of the empire

Occupied by mostly Germany and Russia

Then got a bit of independence, with an extremely reactionary government in WW2

But you can’t say that they agreed to anything it they were coerced.

*if

The government agreed to it

Italy however, was forced into NATO

It was a puppet government installed by Stalin, of course they were going to agree with it!

Otherwise tanks would be rolled into Warsaw

And then Stalin would get the response he wanted

Stalin never sent tanks into Warsaw apart from getting the nazis out of it