"Kay" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:8uQGa.157$rr.65377@news.uswest.net...
> In article <_LNGa.2026$Uj1.1805@nwrdny02.gnilink.net>, USA@aol.com says...
> >
> >
> >"Kay" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
> >news:juKGa.960$GX.71324@news.uswest.net...
> >> You did not answer my question. Was
> >> Hungary, Chech, and Poland colonies of
> >> USSR or not?  If not, what would you
> >> call them?
> >>
> >
> >They were called "Soviet Satellites", which, if you hadn't been lying
> >through your teeth as
> >regards how long you've been in the United States would remember from
> >personal memory.
>
> OK, if you prefer, we can use the term "satellites."
> That is the modern day term for the old colony.
>

No it's not modern. It was coined in the late 1940s.