1949

Nenets people collectivization completed by means of ideological brainwashing (militant atheism, political propaganda) and widespread repression. The reindeer-breeders even rose up in armed struggle against collectivization, and attacked the town of Vorkuta. The army used aircraft to subdue the Nenets as if they were a pack of wolves.

• The Pravda launches an antisemitic ("anticosmopolitan") campaign

• 30,000 Greeks are deported from Georgia to Kazakhstan

• Several leaders of the Communist Party in Leningrad are arrested, and many are executed after a secret trial

• Communists seize power in Hungary and enact a socialist constitution

• The Greek communists are defeated

• Gulag, Nizhni Aturyakh, Berlag, uprising

• The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb (based on American designs stolen by Klaus Fuchs)

• 90 thousand people are deported from the Baltic republics to Siberia, as well as 94 thousand Moldavians and 60 thousand Greeks, Armenians and Turks from the Black Sea

• The communists win the Chinese civil war

• 94,000 Kulaks deported from Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Estonian SSR to Siberia, Far East

• Armenians, Turks, Greeks deported from The Black Sea coast (Russian SFSR), South Caucasus to Southern Kazakh SSR

• 1949-1952 78,400 Kulaks deported from Moldavian SSR, the Baltic States, western Byelorussian SSR, western Ukrainian SSR, Pskov Oblast (Russian SFSR) to Siberia, Kazakh SSR, Far East

• 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

• 1946-1949 Soviet involvement in Greek Civil War

• 1946-1954 First Indochina War

• 1945-1955 Austria remained under joint occupation

• 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

• 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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