Puppet government or mode marionette is pejorative expressions for a government which - although nominally of its people - its existence must with a more powerful capacity, generally foreign, which dictates its action to him.

The term is in favor and inclined with semantic arguments, used almost exclusively by the detractors of these governments, which they are or not the majority of the citizens affects the characterization of knowledge, or object of this kind of government. Often a proclaimed puppet government n the other hand has a rival government which uses the term puppet government to weaken the Légitimité of it. Also often implied of Légitimité known as government is the lack, in the spirit of those which use this mot.

For example, the governments of both Korea S through their history often used each one the rhetoric according to which they were in fact the only authentic capacity of the peninsula, and which the other government was a mode marionette of the two world super powers.

The case of Cuba watch contrary a massive help to a foreign country does not make a puppet of it since he survives in spite of the stop of this help.

Other examples of States and governments sometimes entitled puppet government (in the chronological order):

• Panamá, detached of the Colombia by the the United States in 1903 to dig and control the Channel of Panamá;
• the Manzhouguo or Mandchoukuo, installed in the north of the China by the Japan in the Years 1930;
• the various States which, in addition to the Republic of Indonesia, constituted the République of the United States of Indonesia (December 27th, 1949 - August 17th, 1950);
• majority of the satellite States of the Soviet Union behind the Iron curtain in Europe of the post-war period;
• the Greek Junta 1967 - 1974, supported by the United States;
• the Turkish Republic of Cyprus of North (on the occupied territory in 1974);
• the Democratic republic of the people of Ethiopia of Mengistu, supported by the Soviet Union (1975 - 1990);
• the Democratic republic of Afghanistan, controlled by the Soviet Union (1979 - 1990);
• many military dictatorships of the Central America and South, supported by the the United States;
• the mode of the Talibans in Afghanistan (controlled by the Pakistan before 1998, then by Al-Qaïda);

The governments which seize the power after a foreign military intervention, or its threat, are often shown by their opponents to be about it for example that of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan post- Taliban or that of Diem to the Southern Vietnam, supported by the the United States. These charges are frequently used to destabilize governments, encouraging and justifying coups d'etat.

The majority of the modes under the domination of the Nazi Germany during the Second world war were and are called like that by the literature of the Allies, and in particular:

• Belgium (1939 - 1945) - the movement rexist.
• Slovakia (1939 - 1944) - the Populist party.
• France (1940 - 1944) - the Mode of Vichy of Philippe Pétain
• Croatia (1941 - 1945) - the Oustachis
• Norway (1943 - 1945) - Vidkun Quisling
• Italy (1943 - 1945) - after the withdrawal by the government Badoglio of its participation in the Axis, the Italian Social republic.

Note

The expression puppet government ( puppet government English ) should not be confused, in French, with the expression cabinet (or government) phantom ( shadow cabinet , in English, often used without being translated), which designates the members of an opposition party preparing in advance with a possible exercise of governmental responsibilities. The expression is current concerning the political systems of the the United Kingdom or the Canada, but tends to being used occasionally about political trainings in other countries.

See too

Banana republic

Simple: Puppet state