WI: Cambodia, a Vietnamese Puppet

AudieonAHCom

AudieonAHCom

While this KINDA happened OTL due to the amount of the Vietnamese influence post the Pol Pot era, now..

What if Vietnam decides to truly turn Cambodia into its own Poland/Hungary/Romania analogue for them, if they are acting as the Soviet Union analogue?
 

overoceans

DensetsuNoAudie said:
@overoceans

I dont think 1980's Cambodia is a literal puppet tho. Its just a "Sattelite State", not something that the Vietnamese could easily mess with in its politics.

Ya know, like the Soviets and the Warsaw pact.
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Would you be able to elaborate on the ways in which the OTL People's Republic Of Kampuchea(1979-1989) had more autonomy from Vietnam than, say, Romania had from the USSR?

I know that the Republic per se was never invaded by Vietnam, but they were still a regime put in power by a Vietnamese invasion, just like the Warsaw pact nations. Was the lack of further intervention not simply because Hun Sen never gave them reason for it?
 
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walmart

Going off the wiki, looks like it was about as puppet as you can get.
That perception was reinforced by the presence of Vietnamese advisers who worked at every level of Heng Samrin's Kampuchean Government. In 1986, for example, there was one Vietnamese adviser for every Kampuchean cabinet minister and one adviser for each one of their three deputy ministers. Furthermore, it was reported that final decisions made by a Kampuchean minister had to receive final approval from the Vietnamese adviser, who usually dictated policies.[80]
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en.wikipedia.org

Cambodian–Vietnamese War - Wikipedia

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