1948

Communist coup in Czechoslovakia

• Communist North Korea declares independence under its leader Kim Il Sung, chosen by the Soviet Union

• The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee is disbanded

• Gulag, Vorkuta uprising

• 49,000 Kulaks deported from Lithuanian SSR to Eastern Siberia

• 58,000 Greeks and Armenians deported from The Black Sea coast of Russian SFSR to Southern Kazakh SSR

• 16,000 "Spongers" ("тунеядцы") deported

• 1,000 Kulaks deported from Izmail Oblast (Ukrainian SSR) to Western Siberia

• 1948-1960 Involvement to Malayan Emergency

• 1948-1949 The Soviet Union enacts a blockade of West Berlin

• 1948-1951 100,000 Azeris deported from Armenian SSR to Kura-Aras Lowland, Azerbaijan SSR

• 1948- Involvement to Arab-Israeli Conflict

• 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

• 1945-1948 Soviet Occupation of Northern Korea

• 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

• 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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