Jeremy Hunt offends Slovenia by calling it former 'vassal state' of Soviet Union

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Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has come under fire for wrongly labeling Slovenia a former 'vassal state' of the Soviet Union while on his first official visit to the country.

Mr Hunt was in the capital Ljubljana to discuss Brexit with his counterpart Miro Cerar, but the gaffe worthy of his predecessor Boris Johnson was unlikely to win him many allies in the central European country.

Far from being a puppet of the USSR, Slovenia was the wealthiest state of former Yugoslavia, a communist state which defied and distanced itself from the Soviets in order to build its brand of socialism under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito.

Yugoslavia also formed part of the Non-Aligned Movement - a group of states that chose to

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