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Soviet sphere of influence in Central and Eastern Europe with border changes resulting from invasion and military operations of World War II. During World War II, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed several countries effectively handed over by Nazi Germany in the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939.
This is a list of the violent political and ethnic conflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991. Some of these conflicts such as the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis or the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine were due to political crises in the successor states. Others involved separatist ...
Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran: No Byelorussia: 1941–1944 Soviet Union Germany: Occupation of Byelorussia: No Ukraine: Occupation of Ukraine: Baltic states: Occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (de jure independent, de facto under Soviet rule) Parts of European Russia: Eastern Front: Eastern Karelia Finland: Continuation War: No Guam ...
A Soviet T-26 light tank and its crew in Tabriz, Iran. The Soviet Union policy during World War II was neutrality until August 1939, followed by friendly relations with Germany in order to carve up Eastern Europe. The USSR helped supply oil and munitions to Germany as its armies rolled across Western Europe in May–June 1940.
First Soviet occupation of Estonia (1940–1941) [34] Second Soviet occupation of Estonia (1944–1991) Latvia. Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers, Soldiers, and the Landless in Latvia (1917–1918) Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic (1918–1920) First Soviet occupation of Latvia (1940–1941) Second Soviet occupation of Latvia (1944 ...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] (USSR), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. . During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous co
Soviet forces were also instrumental in ending the rule of Adolf Hitler over Germany. In the aftermath of World War II, the Soviet government struggled with the United States for global leadership and influence within the context of the Cold War. It expanded the geographic scope of its actions beyond its traditional area of operations.
Timeline of the occupation of the Baltic states; Banat (1941–1944) German occupation of Byelorussia during World War II; Reichskommissariat of Belgium and Northern France; Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina; Bialystok District; Bizone; British occupation zone in Germany