Others were relocated by the Japanese from the South when Yanji was part of the puppet state of Manchukuo.

CNN: 'The South's Guangdong'

But Mr Fico's critics fret that behind his approach lies an attempt to rehabilitate the Nazi-backed Slovak puppet state of 1939-45.

ECONOMIST: Slovakia's disturbing patriotism

Throw in growing evidence that our devil-take-the-hindmost abandonment of Iraq is translating into that country becoming little more than an Iranian puppet state and the feeling is palpable: Confidence in presidential leadership is declining, both among the troops and those who truly support them.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama vs. the all-volunteer military

They wanted to take direct and immediate revolutionary action against a government that they regarded as an American puppet, an infidel imposition on a state that should by rights be ruled entirely by Islamic law.

NEWYORKER: Days of Rage

Cursed as a cosmopolitan, a puppet of Jews and Freemasons, and an atheist, the hapless head of state was assassinated by a nationalist zealot after only five days in office.

ECONOMIST: Poland's modern history