Answer:
the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues : duration. b : a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future
A satellite is something that revolves another object, therefore Czech Rep., Germany (where I am living now btw), Austria, Hungary, and Poland were controlled by, or taken by the Soviet Union.
Hoped this helped :)
What? There is no context.
The answer is probably 3 because the other ones just sound ridiculous