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The Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with the Second Spanish Republic on July 28, 1933. Moscow for years tried to purify the Spanish Communist Party by expelling anarchist and Trotskyist members, but the process took years and was finally handled by outside Communists sent to Spain in the Spanish Civil War who exposed and executed opponents. [8]
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.
(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 ...
Urtatagai conflict Soviet Union: Emirate of Afghanistan: Defeat Peace Treaty Urtatagui is seized back to Afghanistan; Afghanistan agreement to restrain Basmachi border raids; 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict Soviet Union China: Victory The provisions of the 1924 agreement are upheld; 1929 Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1929)
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.
This is a list of wars and armed conflicts involving Russia and its predecessors in chronological order, from the 9th to the 21st century.. The Russian military and troops of its predecessor states in Russia took part in a large number of wars and armed clashes in various parts of the world: starting from the princely squads, opposing the raids of nomads, and fighting for the expansion of the ...
At the same time, the Soviet republics started legal moves towards potentially declaring sovereignty over their territories, citing the freedom to secede in Article 72 of the USSR constitution. [105] On 7 April 1990, a law was passed allowing a republic to secede if more than two-thirds of its residents voted for it in a referendum. [106]
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 ...