What are the Eastern European countries under the political influence of the Soviet Union?

so... back in 2008....
What are the Eastern European countries under the political influence of the Soviet Union?
Right now, in 2008? None.
What are the Eastern European countries under the political influence of the Soviet Union?
I assume you mean during the Cold War. There are two categories of country which are important in this context - those countries which were formally a part of the USSR itself and those countries which were independent of the USSR, but under the USSR%26#039;s influence.





The modern equivalents of the European countries which were formally a part of the USSR are -





Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova and Ukraine.





The modern equivalents of the European countries which were simply under the USSR%26#039;s influence are -





Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. (plus Kosovo)





Bare in mind that many of these countries were part of larger countries at the time such as Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
Reply:Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania. The Baltic countries were absorbed into the Soviet Union, they were Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.