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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.
At sea, Soviet captains used deceptive flags and paint schemes to evade Nationalist detection. [215] The USSR sent 2,000–3,000 military advisers to Spain; while the Soviet commitment of troops was fewer than 500 men at a time, Soviet volunteers often operated Soviet-made tanks and aircraft, particularly at the beginning of the war.
The monument to Soviet volunteers in Madrid, inaugurated in 1989 by mayor Juan Barranco Gallardo and Soviet ambassador Sergey Romanovsky, lists 182 names of identified Soviet combatants killed during the war. [9] With the fall of Republicans and the victory of the Nationalists in 1939, the Soviet Union lost all ties with Spain, now under Franco.
Soviet military presence in Czechoslovakia until 1991; 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict Soviet Union China: Victory (status quo ante bellum) [5] Tactical Soviet victory [6] Strategic Soviet victory: ceasefire agreement signed [5] 1991 Sino-Soviet Border Agreement [5] 1969–1970 War of Attrition Egypt Soviet Union Israel: Inconclusive
The Soviet Union played a crucial role in the Allied victory in World War II, but at a tremendous human cost, with millions of Soviet citizens perishing in the conflict. The Soviet Union emerged as one of the world's two superpowers, leading the Eastern Bloc in opposition to the Western Bloc during the Cold War.
(October 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This is a list of conflicts in Europe ordered chronologically, including wars between European states , civil wars within European states, wars between a European state and a non-European state that took place within Europe, militarized interstate disputes , and global conflicts in ...
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An animated series of maps showing the fall of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which later led to conflicts in the post-Soviet space By the late 1980s, people in the Caucasus and Baltic states were demanding more autonomy from Moscow , and the Kremlin was losing some of its control over certain ...