Soviet invasion
Red Army incursion
A Soviet invasion refers to military intervention by the Soviet Union into another country's territory.
The phrase most commonly evokes the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, which sparked a decade-long conflict and Cold War tensions: The Soviet invasion drew international condemnation.
It may also reference earlier interventions in Hungary (1956) or Czechoslovakia (1968) to suppress anti-communist movements.
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
- AfghanistanCentral Asian landlocked nation
- Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact1939 German-Soviet nonaggression treaty
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- proxy warConflict fought through intermediaries
Warsaw Pact · satellite states · Czechoslovakia · Hungary · Finland · Poland · Hindu Kush · Eastern Germany · Winter War · scorched earth · Eastern Bloc · puppet government · Operation Barbarossa · Brezhnev Doctrine · regime change · Manchuria · Marxism-Leninism · secret police
- Military InvasionsOperation Barbarossa, D-Day, Normandy, Dutch East Indies, Bay of Pigs
- Soviet-Afghan Warmujahideen, Kabul, Red Army, Kandahar, resistance fighters
- 1956 HungaryHungarian Revolution, 1956, freedom fighters, revolutionaries, uprising
- Cold War CzechoslovakiaPrague Spring, Velvet Revolution, Charter 77, normalization, dissidents
- Finnish historyFinland, Winter War, Russian Empire, imperial rule, governor-general
- Romanian HistoryRomania, Moldavia, Bucharest, Transylvania, unification
Soviet invasionliberation
Release from constraint
emancipation · independence movement · democratic revolution · popular uprising · self-liberation
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