Definition of "puppet government" []

• A government which is formally independent, but de facto wholly controlled by a foreign power. (noun)

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• "Two days later, when Churchill was fighting alone to prevent the Russians from foisting the Lublin Committee, a puppet government of Polish Communists which they had set up, on the country, Roose - velt went behind the Prime Minister's back and sent Stalin a private letter, asserting:"