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  • I lived there during the "good" times of Soviet satellitism, and the really bad times of the early 1990s.

    "As was the case with Chavez's tendentious present, Ortega's speech was intended as a slap." Ann Althouse 2009

  • We ask if perhaps in the future the relations with communist parties will be based on their principles or will continue to be governed by their degree of submissiveness, satellitism, and lackeyism, and if only those who unconditionally accept everything and are unable to express absolutely no disagreement with anything will be considered friends.

    CASTRO COMMENTS ON CZECHOSLOVAK CRISIS 1968

  • This is seen by Frei, Yankee imperialism's pet and the guardian of its interests in Chile, as economic and political satellitism.

    REPLY TO STATEMENTS MADE BY CHILEAN PRES. FREI 1966

  • And it is shameful proof of the damage that satellitism (satellismo) does and can do in the world, the fact that some agents -- because they are nothing more than agents of that nation -- have committed the stupidity, the historic mistake of writing slanderous articles against the Cuban revolution on Chinese orders, just as a small wicked group from Belgium did, some gentlemen theoreticians on revolutionary war.

    UNIVERSITY SPEECH BLASTS CPR BETRAYAL 1966

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