User:CJK/List of Soviet foreign interventions since 1945

The following is a list of foreign interventions conducted by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1945 to its breakup in 1991. Note that simple aid to a faction does not qualify as an intervention.

1940s

 * 1945-1946 Occupation of northern Iran.
 * 1944-1947 Soviet Army assists in the defeat of anti-communist rebels in Poland.
 * 1945-1949 During this time, the Red Army imposes Communist governments on the Eastern European states of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria.
 * 1945-1946 Occupation of Manchuria, after Soviet withdrawal becomes an important base for the Chinese Communists.
 * 1945-1949 Occupation of part of Germany, becomes East Germany 1949.
 * 1945-1948 Occupation of North Korea.
 * 1945-1955 Occupation of part of Austria.
 * 1945-1956 Occupation of Helsinki, reverts to Finland 1956.
 * 1948-1949 Soviets blockade West Berlin by land.

1950s

 * 1950 Secret MiG flights in the Korean War begin.
 * 1953 Suppression of riots in East Berlin with the help of Soviet tanks.
 * 1956 Invasion of Hungary during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

1960s

 * 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia to suppress the Prague Spring.
 * 1969 Border clashes with China.

1970s

 * 1978 First Soviet advisors arrive in Afghanistan to support the Marxist regime's war with anti-communist insurgents.
 * 1979-1989 Intervention in Afghanistan. (Soviet war in Afghanistan)

1980s

 * Escorts tankers for Kuwait.

1990s

 * 1990-1991 Half-hearted attempt to force Lithuania back into the Soviet Union, after their declaration of independence in March 1990. Independence is recognized in September 1991 shortly after the attempted August coup. A few months later, the Soviet Union collapsed and Soviet forces in Lithuania came under control of the Russian Federation.