Russian Wars and Invasions From 1904-2016
Russian Wars From 1904-2016
Japan (1904-1905) - (
100,000 deaths)
WWI -
Against the
Ottoman Empire,
Germany, Austria-Hungary and
Bulgaria to dominate in
SE Europe (1914-1918) – (14 million)
Central Asia and
Afghanistan (1916-1934) - (20,000 deaths, possibly hundreds of thousands from starvation and disease)
Finland,
Latvia,
Estonia and
Lithuania (
1917–
1922) - (
1.1 million deaths0
Ukraine (1917–
1921)
Kazakhstan (1917-1920)
Finland (
1918)
Latvia (1918–
1920) – 4,000 deaths
Estonia (1918–1920) – 5,000 deaths
Lithuania (1918-1919)
Georgia (1918–1920) – 5,000 deaths
Polish (
1919–1921) – 48,000 deaths
Azerbaijan (1920)
Georgia (1921) – 4,000 deaths
Armenia (1921)
Finland (1921–1922)
Georgia (1924) – 16,000
China (
Manchuria) (1929) – 2,000 deaths
Japan (1932-1941) – part of Soviet-China border clashes of 1929
Xinjiang in China (
1937) – Contributed to the deaths of 10,000
WWII - Occupations of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Hungary,
Romania,
Yugoslavia, Germany,
Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia and
Austria (
1939–
1945) – 60 million
Details:
Occupation of Poland (1939-1941) –
200,000 dead,
300,000 deported
Invasion of Finland (1939-1940)
Occupation of the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (1940-1941) – 100,000 killed or deported
Anglo-Soviet
Occupation of Iran (
1941) – 200 deaths
China (1945-1946) – 70,000
Guerilla war in the
Baltic States (1944-1956) – 2,000 deaths
Occupation of Korea and the
Korean War (1948-1953) – 4 million deaths
Post-WWII Germany - In
1944 roughly 12.4 million
Germans were living in territory that after the dismemberment of Germany became part of post-war Poland and
Soviet Union. Approximately 6 million fled or were evacuated before the
Red Army occupied the area. Of the remainder, up to 1.1 million died, 3.6 million were expelled by the
Poles. Thousands starved and froze to death while being expelled in slow and ill-equipped trains. Another 165,000 were transported by the
Soviets to
Siberia.
Uprising of 1953 in
East Germany – 50 deaths
Poznan 1956 protests in Poland – 80 deaths
Hungarian Revolution against
Russia (
1956) – 6,000 deaths
Invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968) – 200 deaths
China (
1969) – 160 deaths
War of Attrition (1969–
1970) – Against
Israel, 8,000-18,
500 dead
Eritrean War of Independence (
1974–
1990) – Contributed to the deaths of
150,000
The
Indochina Wars (1956-1975) -
3-4 million in
Vietnam,
Cambodia and
Laos killed, 3 million made refugees in wars instigated by the
USSR
Angola (
1975–
1991) – Contributed to the deaths of 500,000
Somalia (
1977–1978) – Contributed to the deaths of 6,000
Afghan-Soviet War (1979-1989) – 1.5 million dead, 1/3rd of Afghanistan made homeless or refugees
Georgia (1991-92) – 1,000 deaths
Moldova (
1992) – 600-900 deaths
Georgia (1992–
1993) – Contributed profoundly to the deaths of 30,000 and the expulsion of 200,000 ethnic
Georgians
Tajikistan (1992–
1997) – Contributed to the deaths of 100,000 deaths
Georgia (1993)
First Chechen War (1994-1996) – 100,000 deaths
Second Chechen War (
1999-2009) – 80,000 deaths
Georgia (2008) – 400 deaths
North Caucasus (2009-Present) – 1,00 deaths
Crimean crisis 2014 – Russia annexes
Crimea
Intervention in Ukraine (2014–) – 11,000 deaths
Syria (2015-2016, Ongoing) – 2,000 deaths