1945

A treaty ceding Carpatho-Ukraine to the Soviet Union was signed between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union

• 450 000 civilians dead in Soviet forced labor camp systems

• Germany surrenders

• Poland. Red Army Rape during the liberation of Poland. The Polish state archives and statistics of the Ministry of Health indicate that it might have exceeded 100,000

• Soviet entry into the Krakow city was accompanied by mass rapes of Polish women and girls, as well as the plunder of private property by Red Army soldiers

• Number of members of the Polish Underground State deported to Siberia and various labor camps in the Soviet Union reached 50,000

• Poland. More than 2,000 Poles were captured and about 600 of them are presumed to have died in Soviet custody

• At the Yalta conference the Soviet Union, Britain and the USA partition Europe in spheres of influence

• Germany and Berlin are divided in four sectors, soon to be come "western" and "easter" (Russian) sectors

• Königsberg (Kaliningrad) is assigned to Russia

• Königsberg, Metgethen massacre. Women had been raped, mutilated, and killed, and that 32 civilians had been rounded up on the local tennis court and killed by an explosion by Red Army

• German population of the Kaliningrad Oblast, former East Prussia was expelled and the depopulated area resettled by Soviet citizens, mainly by Russians.

• The Soviet Union established the Azerbaijan People's Government in Iranian Azerbaijan.

• Soviet troops raped German women and girls as young as eight years old

• Soviet forces invaded the North and South Kurils, Japan Kuril Islands

• Germany, Treuenbrietzen. As many as 1,000 civilians may have been executed during the massacre. Numerous girls from Treuenbrietzen were raped by Red Army

• During World War II Ingush people were falsely accused of collaborating with the Nazis and the entire population was deported to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

• Germany, Demmin. Rapes, pillage and executions committed by Red Army soldiers triggered a mass suicide of hundreds of people and nearly all of the Old Town was burned down. Despite its surrender, nearly 900 civilians committed suicide.

• Hungary, Budapest. Red Army initiated an orgy of violence, including the wholesale theft of anything they could lay their hands on, random executions and mass rape. Estimates of rape victims vary from 5,000 to 200,000. According to Norman Naimark, Hungarian girls were kidnapped and taken to Red Army quarters, where they were imprisoned, repeatedly raped and sometimes murdered

• Germany, Berlin. Soviet troops, formerly stationed in Berlin, who were allowed by the Soviet military to go at the city "for three days of rape and pillage." Most of Mukden was gone. Convict soldiers were then used to replace them; it was testified that they "stole everything in sight, broke up bathtubs and toilets with hammers, pulled electric-light wiring out of the plaster, built fires on the floor and either burned down the house or at least a big hole in the floor, and in general behaved completely like savages

• Germany / Sweden. Even embassy staff from neutral countries were captured and raped, as documented when Soviet soldiers attacked the Swedish legation in Germany

• Yugoslavia. At least 121 cases of rape were documented, 111 of which also involved murder. A total of 1,204 cases of looting with assault were also documented.

• Death toll of German POW in the USSR at about 1.0 million

• 2,000 "Traitors and collaborators" deported from Mineralnye Vody (Russian SFSR) to Tajik SSR

• 1945-1955 Austria remained under joint occupation

• 1945-1946 Soviet occupation of Manchuria

• 1945-1948 Soviet Occupation of Northern Korea

• 1945-1946 Northern Norway 1944–1946 / Bornholm

• 1944-1956 Guerilla war in the Baltic states against Soviet rule, Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians

• 1945-1950 Tens of thousands Germans deported from Königsberg to West or Middle Germany

• 1945-1948 Many Nivkh, as well as half of the Oroks and all of the Sakhalin Ainu, who had been living under Japanese jurisdiction in the southern half of Sakhalin, were forced to move to Japan along with the ethnic Japanese settlers

• 1944-1945 Lapland War, Finland

• 1944-1956 Poland, Fights against Cursed soldiers

• 1944-1945 The Siege of Budapest, Hungary

• 1944-1949 Fights against Ukrainian Insurgent Army

• 1944-1949 Fights against Werwolf, Poland

• 1944-1949 Ili Rebellion, Soviet-backed revolt by the Second East Turkestan Republic against the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China

• 1944-1958 Romania remained under the direct military occupation and economic control of the USSR

• 1944-1945 Nazi atrocities ended by late 1944, but they were replaced by Soviet oppression with the advance of Red Army forces. Soviet soldiers often engaged in plunder, rape and other crimes against the Poles, causing the population to fear and hate the regime

• 1944-1945 Russian Red Army rape, tortured and killed about 120 000 children and woman in occupied areas.

• 1942-1954 Involvment in Hukbalahap Rebellion, Philippines

• 1941-1949 Nearly 3.3 million people were deported to Siberia and the Central Asian republics

• 1941–1946 Invasion to Northern Iran

• 1941-1945 World War II

• 1940-1991 Occupation and annexation of Estonia

• 1940-1991 Occupation and annexation of Latvia

• 1940-1991 Occupation and annexation of Lithuania. The Soviet annexation resulted in mass terror, the destruction of civil liberties, the economic system and Lithuanian culture.

• 1940-1953 More than 200,000 people are estimated to have been deported from the Baltic States by the Soviet regime

• 1940-1951 The Soviet deportations of 400 000 people from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

• 1940-1991 Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

• 1939-1956 Polish resistance movement

• 1938-1953 Russia, Butovo firing range. Location where more than 20,000 political prisoners were shot during the Great Terror of the Soviet Union

• 1937-1945 Second Sino-Japanese War

• 1800-2001 Russia annexing Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia) and deposing the Bagratids

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