The breakup of the Soviet Union led to the weakening of its satellite states.
Which nation became independent because of the breakup?

Ukraine and Belarus                            

Explanation:

During World War II, Soviet Russia in  Eastern Europe began to seize countries and introduce communism form of government. The Term Satellite states given by Americans to describe countries as they held by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union began to collapse in the 1980s with growing unrest within the various satellite states. After the fall of the Soviet Union, fifteen new nations emerged includes, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, etc.  

it was created as a proprietorship, unlike any other colony.

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