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Why were the countries of the Iron Curtain not absorbed into the USSR proper, but rather left as satellite/puppet states by the Soviet leaders?

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Why were the countries of the Iron Curtain not absorbed into the USSR proper, but rather left as satellite/puppet states by the Soviet leaders?	3
Is there any examples of a part of a country successfully seceding and then unifying with another neighbouring country in the last century?	2