Mumia, sorry for this post, but it's something odd about the new map... it's too much easy to release puppets! Many times if you own only a single province of a country you can already release a puppet of it. This causes weird situations ingame.
See, I was playing as stalinist Brazil but automatically went into the Allies when Germany DoWed me (I DoWed Vichy France first)... then when I invaded Europe I could release communist Greece even holding only Crete. Then I went to Spain and eventually reached occupied France. The Soviets also were beating the Germans at the North. Guess what: I released Free France and Soviets released communist France, so we had 4 Frances ingame:
France (Allies)
Vichy France (Axis)
Free France (Brazilian puppet)
Communist France (Soviet puppet)
And this happened to other countries as well, so you can imagine how confusing and colored was the European map about 1944...