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puppet leader

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Noun1.puppet leader - a leader or ruler who is chosen by a despot to head a governmentpuppet leader - a leader or ruler who is chosen by a despot to head a government
leader - a person who rules or guides or inspires others
ruler, swayer - a person who rules or commands; "swayer of the universe"


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Who knows, if we hadn't got Churchill as an implacable war leader, we could have not only had "peace in our time" but fascist sympathisers King Edward and Queen Wallis on the throne, Sir Oswald Mosley the puppet leader of the government and our own extermination camps.
Terrified that this "revolutionary virus" might spread to ordinary working people in their own countries, the leaders of Western capitalist states launched an invasion of the young Soviet Union, determined to install a puppet leader more friendly to Western interests.
And given the prospect of a puppet leader, the precedent of a Dalai Lama without political authority may be the best legacy this one could leave his country.
 
 
 
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