Poland did.
The Soviet Union
Stalin was born in Georgia. He later became the leader of the Soviet Union.
Marshall Tito
They need to sustain the trade flow established during Soviet times
Poland did.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia (on the Gulf of Finland) became an independent state.
Kazakhstan is an independent country, they became an independent nation in 1991 when the Soviet Union broke up.
The Soviet Union
No. They became and stayed two independent countries.
latvia
Russia became independent of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was founded in 1924 as a reorganization of the Soviet Socialist Republics of Bukhara, Khorezm, and Turkestan. Uzbekistan as an independent country became free of the Soviet Union in 1991.
It became independent when the soviet union fell apart in 1991
Baltic countries have its name for being bounded on the west and north by the Baltic Sea. Latvia is a democratic, parliamentary republic located in Baltic region neighboring with Russia. Latvia became independent in 1918, and was occupied by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany during the second world war and again by the Soviet Union after the second world war until it regained it's independence in 1991. Estonia is a democratic parliamentary republic divided into 15 counties which has over 1,500 islands. Lithuania is a Parliamentary democracy on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea and it is the largest in Baltic countries. Lithuania was the first Soviet republic to declare independence from the USSR.
Throughout much of its history it has been controlled by the Russian Empire, but after the fall of the Soviet Union it became its own independent state.
It is an independent country and a member of the CIS-the Commonwealth of Independent States. It is a former Soviet republic.