From Russia with love 🫶 😅😂 ✴️ 1904 to 1905 - war with Japan for supremacy over Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula ✴️ 1917 to 1921 - war against Ukraine and its efforts for independence ✴️ 1918 - invasion of Azerbaijan ✴️ 1918 - invasion of Finland ✴️ 1918 - occupation of Belarus ✴️ 1918 - occupation of part of Moldova ✴️ 1918 to 1920 - war against Latvia ✴️ 1918 to 1920 - war against Estonia ✴️ 1918 to 1919 - war against Lithuania ✴️ 1918 to 1920 - war in Ossetia ✴️ 1919 to 1921 - Russian invasion of Poland (Russo-Polish War) ✴️ 1920 - invasion of Azerbaijan ✴️ 1921 - invasion of Georgia ✴️ 1921 - invasion of Mongolia ✴️ 1921 - suppression of the Armenian uprising ✴️ 1921 to 1922 - suppression of the uprising in Karelia ✴️ 1924 - another military intervention against Georgian nationalists ✴️ 1929 - the first military intervention in China ✴️ 1937 - the second military intervention in China ✴️ 1937 - invasion of Azerbaijan ✴️ 1938 - invasion of Japan again ✴️ 1939 - invasion of Poland ✴️ 1939 to 1940 - invasion of Finland (so-called Winter War) ✴️ 1940 - annexation of Estonia ✴️ 1940 - annexation of Latvia ✴️ 1940 - annexation of Lithuania ✴️ 1941 - invasion of Iran ✴️ 1941 to 1944 - continuation of the Russian war against Finland ✴️ 1941 to 1945 - use of the consequences of World War II as a pretext to occupy Eastern Europe, Central Europe and the Balkans ✴️ 1944 - annexation of Tuva ✴️ 1944 - invasion of Albania ✴️ 1944 - war operations on the Chinese border ✴️ 1944 to 1956 - military intervention in the Baltics ✴️ 1950 to 1953 - military participation in the Korean War ✴️ 1953 - bloody suppression of the uprising in the GDR ✴️ 1956 - bloody military intervention in Hungary ✴️ 1960 - active participation in the war in Laos ✴️ 1955 to 1961 - active participation in the war in Vietnam ✴️ 1962 - military participation in operations in Algeria ✴️ 1968 - bloody invasion of Czechoslovakia ✴️ 1969 - China attacked again - Damansky Island ✴️ 1969 to 1970 - military support of Egyptian Islamists against Israel ✴️ 1970 - active participation in the war in Cambodia ✴️ 1971 - Russian military participation in the Indo-Pakistani conflict ✴️ 1972 - active participation in the war in Bangladesh ✴️ 1974 to 1990 - military participation in the war in Eritrea ✴️ 1975 to 2002 - intensive military support of monstrous regimes in the Angolan civil war ✴️ 1977 to 1978 military participation in the war between Ethiopia and Somalia ✴️ 1979 to 1989 massive invasion of Afghanistan and subsequent war ✴️ 1988 - invasion of Azerbaijan ✴️ 1991 - military intervention in Lithuania and Estonia ✴️ 1991 - invasion of Georgia ✴️ 1992 - a new invasion of Georgia ✴️ 1992 - bombing of Ingushetia ✴️ 1992 - Russian military intervention in Moldova ✴️ 1992 - new military intervention in East Ossetia ✴️ 1992 to 1997 - military intervention in Tajikistan ✴️ 1993 - military participation in the Georgian civil war ✴️ 1994 - Azerbaijan again ✴️ 1994 - military intervention in Dagestan again ✴️ 1994 to 1996 the first war in Chechnya ✴️ 1998 - again Georgia - Abkhazia ✴️ 1999 - Dagestan again ✴️ 1999 to 2009 - the second war in Chechnya ✴️ 2008 - war in South Ossetia, invasion of Georgia ✴️ 2009 - another military intervention in the North Caucasus ✴️ 2014 - annexation of Crimea, invasion of eastern Ukraine ✴️ 2016 - bombing of Syria and occupation of several key places (military presence still today) ✴️ 2022 - full-scale attack on Ukraine
