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The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war.On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west.
On 5 September 1944, the Soviet Union declared war on Bulgaria and on 8 September invaded the country, without encountering resistance. By the next day Soviets occupied the northeastern part of Bulgaria along with the key port city of Varna. On 8 September 1944 Bulgaria declared war against Nazi Germany.
Soviet expansion in 1939–1940. After the Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September 1939, in accordance with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact the Soviet forces were given freedom over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, an important aspect of the agreement to the Soviet government as they were afraid of Germany using the three states as a corridor to get close to Leningrad.
Invasion of Czechoslovakia [citation needed] Soviet Union. Bulgaria East Germany Hungary Poland. Czechoslovakia: Victory The Prague Spring is suppressed; Moscow Protocol; Soviet military presence in Czechoslovakia until 1991; 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict Soviet Union China: Victory (status quo ante bellum) [5] Tactical Soviet victory [6]
The Germans did attempt an encirclement attack at Kursk, which was successfully repulsed by the Soviets [145] after Hitler cancelled the offensive, in part, because of the Allied invasion of Sicily, [146] though the Soviets suffered over 800,000 casualties. [147]
For a brief period, Nazi Germany occupied the Baltic states after it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. The initial Soviet invasion and occupation of the Baltic states began in June 1940 under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact , made between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in August 1939 before the outbreak of World War II .
[127] [128] On 24 September, the Soviets killed 42 staff and patients of a Polish military hospital in the village of Grabowiec, near Zamość. [129] The Soviets also executed all the Polish officers they captured after the Battle of Szack, on 28 September. [130] Over 20,000 Polish military personnel and civilians perished in the Katyn massacre.
The Soviets had already started intensive mobilisation near the Finnish border in 1938–39. [58] Assault troops thought to be necessary for the invasion did not begin deployment until October 1939. Operational plans made in September called for the invasion to start in November. [66] [67]