If you add Austria, you need to add Manchukuo, Mengjiang, Korea as well, since those formally independent puppet states were part of Japanese empire and as such attacked by the Soviets in Operation August Storm.
well the point isn't modern day countries, it's countries that the USSR invaded, the ussr didn't invade Norway, but it did invade Nazi Germany which was occupying Norway. (You could argue that the USSR was more of occupying the lands rather than liberating them but still)
The British invaded Iceland in WW2. They had no intention of being permanently there but felt it was in their best interest to hold the country during hostilities. They were officially not welcomed but they did not fight the landing forces. The British told the US to occupy whatever territories in the Caribbean they deemed necessary to protect the Americas.
Yeah, these were the sorts of "invasions", I thought of too; the one that first popped into my head was Gulf War I – 30-some-odd countries "invading" Kuwait, but only to kick an invader out. But I confess that upon first reading, I did the same double-take as mckinpo! This is clearly why Quizmaster gets paid the big bucks :-)
agree... Armenia for sure was invaded by the soviet union in 1921, called the red army invasion of Armenia. maybe it wasn't included though since Quizzer only seems to include invasions after the official foundation of the USSR in Dezember 1922. imho it should still be included to be historically accurate.
The description "with hostile intent" says more about the quizmaster's political views than what really happened. I won't go into détails as iddit has already done that,.
I don't know whether quizmaster would describe the many US invasions of the past century as being "with hostile intent" but surely they were!
oh come on... was my comment here deleted? I was being relatively nice compared to what this poster deserved. Anyway I linked to a quiz about countries that the USA has bombed and in the instructions are the same words "with hostile intent"...
Has that quiz since been deleted? I can't find it. I think it was something like Countries Invaded by the USA or maybe Countries Bombed by the US since WW2 (I can find a user quiz on the latter subject but not a featured one)
The "invasion of Hungary, Austria, Germany, and Bulgaria" are not factual statements. The Soviets never invaded these countries, rather they were the target of theirs in 1941. The Soviet entry into these countries in 1944/45 were the result of the declaration of war by Nazi Germany and her co-belligerents, and was the continuation of these hostilities.
The Slovak Republic was a Nazi puppet state from 1939 to 1945. The Soviets abolished the state on April 4, 1945. Hence it would be accurate to include Slovak Republic as invaded with hostile intent by the Soviets.
There was a joint British-Soviet occupation of Persia in 1941 with the Soviets taking the northern half. In reality both the Brits and the Soviets were interfering in Persia's domestic affairs and occupying oil fields during the interwar period.
The Shah at the time of the invasion was seen as friendly to Nazi Germany and the Allies couldn't afford to lose the country to the Axis. It was a preemptive move to secure strategic Allied control over the area. Afterward the Shah was forced to abdicate in favor of his son, who would go on to be the Shah famously chased out of the country some 38 years later, in part for his friendly stance toward foreign Westerners.
What about the USA? Never forget, in 1984 the Soviets and their Cuban allies occupied Calumet, Colorado. Brothers Jed and Matt Eckert and their plucky gang of high school guerrilla soldiers, The Wolverines, fought back against the occupying forces.
Not really. Invasions of Bulgaria, Iran, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany and Japan were all part of the WW2 counter-offensive against the Axis powers after Germany attacked the USSR, and they weren't annexed to the Soviet Union after the fighting was done even though friendly governments were often set up afterward. The later invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were to crush local political dissidents against Communist and pro-Soviet rule; they also withdrew. And the occupation of Afghanistan to assist the Communist government there, though lengthy, ultimately ended in Soviet withdraw from the country. Really the only invasions here that could accurately be described as "conquests" are the Baltic states which were absorbed into the USSR in 1940.
I don't know whether quizmaster would describe the many US invasions of the past century as being "with hostile intent" but surely they were!