Countries Invaded by the USSR

Did you mean to list 1968 for Czechoslovakia?

It's not about typing, we need time to think!

Norway?

No way.

I don't even measure nor weigh myself, buddy.

I'm glad that I correctly guessed Iran. Perfect score with 1:26 remaining

The only one I missed.

What about Polish-Soviet War of 1920?

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.

What about the British Invasion of the mid 1960s?

The Swiss army accidentally invades Liechtenstein every now and then. One time their soldiers got lost due to bad weather.

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.

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)

No! Missed Iran!

liberated*

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.

Invading a country doesn't require that you started the conflict.

Manchukuo? Slovakia?

Can't have invaded Slovakia, Czechoslovakia split in 1993

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.

Why Iran?

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.

where is the soviet polish war of 1919? i think you have forgotten the early soviet era.

The Soviet Union only started to exist in 1922.

And they conquered those all exept Finland?

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.

part of it.

Hello Mr. Troll. Lovely staw man you've got there. Are you on your way to Oz?

You seem to have understood my comment as well as you understood the quiz.

Why do you cherry-pick West Germany and Japan, countries which were already rich and developed due to imperialism? What about Iraq? Libya? Afghanistan? It is ridiculous to imply that American invasion/occupation consistently results in "levels of prosperity and population that were far higher than ever before".

Afghan HDI increased every single year after the US-led invasion, but it was starting out at a pretty big deficit so might be hard to appreciate how far they came. Vietnam chased the Americans out and was taken over by Communists, so, not really a valid comparison; though actually today, many decades after the US pulled out and years since more-or-less fully embracing Capitalism, the country has actually started to thrive and the pace of growth is pretty impressive. Iraq.. was kind of a $#!tshow, granted.

tcook: when do you mistakenly believe the US invaded Libya? Are you talking about the Barbary Wars and despairing at the unlawful infringement of the rights of these people to engage in coastal piracy? Or do you mean the NATO action of 2011 in which no invasion took place and that stopped an insane tinpot Colonel's tank columns en route to butcher his perceived enemies in Benghazi? I guess you're in favor of the right of unpopular and unbalanced dictators to slaughter their own people en masse? Americans never stepped foot in Libya after that what happened then was on them. Being against the NATO action just makes you pro-butchering. If Donald Trump or some other would-be-king tries to assume absolute power in the US after losing popular support in 2024 or beyond, and he sends an armored division to wipe out his political enemies in New York or wherever, for the record, please send NATO to wipe out the tanks. I'll probably be one of the protestors. Thanks.

Your comments are always the best. Dependably so. TY.

The Soviets also invaded Xinjiang (China) in 1934

What about China and/or Mongolia?

Ukraine in 2014? The UN still recognizes Crimea as Ukrainian, but Russia took control in 2014 and it certainly looked like an invasion.

Austria definitely missing.

The red army occupied the capital and other territories in 1945 and they left only in 1955. Austria is neutral since than, not NATO member.

There are books about that:

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Austria-Occupation-1945-1955/dp/1793626588

Yugoslavia is more questionable, but still:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_in_Yugoslavia#Liberation_of_Belgrade_and_eastern_Yugoslavia:

In the early October 1944 three Bulgarian armies, consisting of around 340,000-man,[69] together with the Red Army reentered occupied Yugoslavia and moved from Sofia to Niš, Skopje and Pristina to blocking the German forces withdrawing from Greece.[70][71] The Red Army organised the Belgrade Offensive, and took the city on 20 October.

Interesting, got all except Iran which I had no idea about.

Can someone explain the final caveat for me pls:

Only countries that were not sovereign at the time, so Austria doesn't count

Pretty sure my grandfather in the Third Army met Soviet troops when the front closed in Czechoslovakia, circa May 1945.

I want to imagine the look on their faces when they realized that Germany was defeated.

Looks like we’ll need a quiz for countries invaded by Putalitarian Russia soon.

He would be proud to be included on the list. And pathetic strongman wannabes the world over would call the moves "brilliant," "smart," and "savvy."

I think that Denmark maybe belongs to the list? The soviets invaded the island of Bornholm a few days after Denmark was officially liberated from German occupation. The tricky thing is that Bornholm itself was still occupied by the Germans at the time that had orders to only surrender to the British, so in some sense it was unwillingly liberated by the Soviets. History is complicated

Well, this is Timely

Damn, yeah. Literally the day Russia started its invasion. And now that I think about it, it's probably on purpose. No better day for Putin to start his resurrection of the Soviet Union than on a day that glorifies the Soviet Union.

given some of the language Putin has used recently, I think you're probably right.

they kinda invaded russia

Well this didn't age well...

Needs an update.