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This is a list of wars involving the Soviet Union (30 December 1922 – 26 December 1991).
Date | Conflict | Location | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1916–1934 | Central Asian Revolt | Central Asia | Russian Empire (until 1917) Russian SFSR
Soviet Union (from 1922) |
Basmachi Khiva |
Victory
|
1924 | August Uprising[citation needed] | Soviet Union | Damkom | Victory
| |
1925–1926 | Urtatagai conflict | Soviet Union | Emirate of Afghanistan | Peace treaty
| |
1929 | Sino-Soviet conflict | Soviet Union | China | Victory
| |
1929 | Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1929) Part of the Afghan Civil War (1928–1929) |
Soviet Union Amānullāh Khān |
Basmachi Saqqawists |
The Soviet Union failed to change the situation in the country | |
1930 | Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1930) | Soviet Union | Basmachi | Victory | |
1932 | Chechen uprising of 1932citation needed] | [Soviet Union | Chechen rebels | Victory
| |
1932–1941 | Soviet–Japanese border conflicts | Soviet Union Mongolia |
Japan Manchukuo |
Victory
| |
1934 | Soviet invasion of Xinjiang | Soviet Union Xinjiang clique White Movement Torgut Mongols |
China | Stalemate
| |
(1936–39) | Spanish Civil War | Spain | Spain
Supported by: Volunteers International Brigades
|
Nationalist faction
|
Defeat
|
1937 | Islamic Rebellion in Xinjiang[citation needed] | Xinjiang Soviet Union |
China | Victory
| |
1939 | Soviet invasion of Poland (Part of World War II) | Germany Soviet Union |
Poland | Victory
| |
1939–1940 | Winter War (Part of World War II) | Soviet Union | Finland | Inconclusive
| |
1940 | Occupation and annexation of the Baltic states (Part of World War II) | Soviet Union | Estonia Latvia Lithuania |
Victory
| |
1940 | Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (part of World War II) | Soviet Union | Romania | Victory
| |
1941–1945 | World War II | Allied Powers: Soviet Union |
Axis Powers: Germany |
Victory
| |
1944–1960s | Anti-communist insurgencies in Central and Eastern Europe[citation needed]
|
Soviet Union East Germany Polish People's Republic Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Hungarian People's Republic Socialist Republic of Romania People's Republic of Bulgaria Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
Ukrainian Insurgents Polish Insurgents Estonian Insurgents Latvian Insurgents Lithuanian Insurgents Bulgarian Insurgents Serbian Insurgents Croatian Insurgents Romanian Insurgents German Insurgents Hungarian Insurgents |
Victory
| |
1945 | Soviet–Japanese War (Part of World War II) | Soviet Union Mongolia |
Japan Manchukuo |
Victory
| |
1946-1954 | First Indochina War | France State of Vietnam Kingdom of Laos Cambodia |
Viet Minh
Khmer Issarak Pathet Lao Japan Japanese holdout
Supported by: |
Victory
| |
1950–1953 | Korean War | North Korea China |
United Nations South Korea |
Ceasefire
| |
1955–1975 | Vietnam War | North Vietnam Viet Cong and PRG |
South Vietnam United States |
Victory
| |
1953 | East German Uprising[citation needed] | Soviet Union East Germany | East German demonstrators | Victory
| |
1956 | Hungarian Revolution[citation needed] | Soviet Union ÁVH |
Revolutionaries | Victory
| |
1961 | Vlora Incident[citation needed] | Soviet Union Warsaw Pact:[1][2] Bulgaria Czechoslovakia East Germany Hungary Poland |
Albania | Soviet-Warsaw Pact defeat
| |
1968 | Invasion of Czechoslovakia[citation needed] | Soviet Union Bulgaria |
Czechoslovakia | Victory
| |
1969 | Sino-Soviet border conflict | Soviet Union | China | Victory (status quo ante bellum)[5]
| |
1969–1970 | War of Attrition | Egypt Soviet Union |
Israel | Inconclusive
| |
1975–1991 | Angolan Civil War | MPLA Cuba |
South Africa UNITA |
Victory
| |
1977–1978 | Ethio-Somali War | Ethiopia Cuba |
Somalia WSLF |
Victory
| |
1979–1989 | Soviet–Afghan War | Soviet Union Soviet-controlled Afghanistan |
Afghan Mujahideen Saqqawists |
Defeat
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