1946

the Soviet Union begins a secret program of biological weapons (plague, smallpox, anthrax) at Sverdlovsk

• Famine kills one million people in Russia and Ukraine

• Gulag, Dalstroi explosion at Bukhta Nakhodka

• Gulag, Kolyma rebellion

• The entire Japanese civilian population of roughly 17,000 of occupied Kuril islands was expelled by 1946.

• Involvement of the Iran crisis

• The Soviet-backed Kurdish Republic of Mahabad declared its independence from Iran.

• Iran crisis: British troops withdrew from Iran. The Soviet Union violated its prior agreement and remained.

• The same Soviet troops from Germany had been sent to Manchuria and looted, killed and raped. In Harbin, the Chinese posted slogans such as "Down with Red Imperialism!" Soviet forces ignored protests from Chinese communist party leaders on their mass rape and loot policy

• Iran regained control over the territory of the Azerbaijan People's Government.

• 1946-1948 Battle of Baitag Bogd Mountain, border conflict between the Republic of China and the Mongolian People's Republic with Soviet forces.

• 1946-1949 Soviet involvement in Greek Civil War

• 1946-1954 First Indochina War

• 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

• 1944-1956 Poland, Fights against Cursed soldiers

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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