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Soviet military occupations
- Anglo-Soviet invasion of IranIn 1940, Britain faced a war with Germany in North Africa and grew deeply concerned about German access to the Persian Gulf.
- Allied-occupied GermanyOn the 5th of June 1945, the Berlin Declaration dissolved the German government entirely. No sovereign authority remained to negotiate with the Allies.
- Molotov–Ribbentrop PactThe outcome of World War I was disastrous for both the German and Russian empires. The Russian Civil War broke out in late 1917 after the Bolshevik…
- Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940)On the 18th of September 1939, a Polish submarine escaped from Tallinn into the Baltic Sea. This single event triggered a chain of ultimatums that would…
- Hungarian Revolution of 1956In 1945, the Red Army entered Budapest after a brutal siege that left the city in ruins. The Soviet Union established control over Hungary, transforming it…
- Soviet–Afghan WarIn 1893, British civil servant Mortimer Durand drew a line across the Pamir Mountains that would haunt Afghanistan for over a century.
- Warsaw Pact invasion of CzechoslovakiaIn the late 1950s, Czechoslovakia began a slow process of de-Stalinization under Antonín Novotný. This change moved much slower than in other Eastern Bloc…
- Soviet occupation zone in GermanyOn the 2nd of August 1945, the Soviet Union established control over a specific middle portion of Germany through the Potsdam Agreement.
- Soviet invasion of PolandThe Peace of Riga treaty signed on the 18th of March 1921 drew a new line between Poland and Soviet Russia. This agreement divided disputed territories after…
- Occupation of the Baltic statesEarly in the morning of the 24th of August 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany signed a ten-year non-aggression pact. This agreement contained a secret…
- Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern BukovinaIn 1812, the Treaty of Bucharest transferred Bessarabia from the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire. This region had been a vassal state of the Ottomans as…