Eastern European countries weren't Soviet puppets because soviets didn't control them. A few examples below.
Yugoslavia - great tensions with the USSR all the way until the end, including plenty of denouncements on both sides.
Albania - sided with Mao in the sino-soviet split
GDR - friendliest with the USSR, but still did whatever they wanted in the end (such as building the berlin wall which the soviets were strongly against)
The eastern bloc wasn't unified like the western bloc because the USSR didn't coup every country that didn't toe the line like the USA. They even dissolved their main method of influencing foreign countries in the 50s (comintern).
Hungary's oppressed nobility started an anti-Semitic revolt against the Communist Party who asked for assistance from the Soviets because the country was still war torn and rebuilding.
Eastern European countries weren't Soviet puppets because soviets didn't control them. A few examples below.
Yugoslavia - great tensions with the USSR all the way until the end, including plenty of denouncements on both sides.
Albania - sided with Mao in the sino-soviet split
GDR - friendliest with the USSR, but still did whatever they wanted in the end (such as building the berlin wall which the soviets were strongly against)
The eastern bloc wasn't unified like the western bloc because the USSR didn't coup every country that didn't toe the line like the USA. They even dissolved their main method of influencing foreign countries in the 50s (comintern).
1956 in Hungary and 1968 in Czechoslovakia?
https://twitter.com/historic_ly/status/1329509412390756355?t=3TT7BfilHocJEYTJVYpOmg&s=19
Hungary's oppressed nobility started an anti-Semitic revolt against the Communist Party who asked for assistance from the Soviets because the country was still war torn and rebuilding.
My point exactly. The USSR didn't coup every country that ran counter to their orthodoxy.
Those events are notable precisely because they were exceptions to the general rule of no direct interference.