1978

A Bulgarian dissident, Georgi Markov, is killed with poison by the Bulgarian secret service

• Soviet involvement in Saur Revolution, Afghanistan

• Soviet air defense shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 902 (KAL 902) near Murmansk, Soviet Union

• 1977-1978 Soviet involvement in Ogaden War

• 1977-1978 Soviet involvement in Ethiopia-Somali War, the Soviet Union switched from supplying aid to Somalia to supporting Ethiopia

• 1977-1990 Soviet involvement in Ethiopia

• 1977-1991 Soviet involvement in Cambodian-Vietnamese War

• 1977-1992 Soviet involvement in Mozambican Civil War

• 1975-1990 Soviet involvement in Lebanese Civil War

• 1974-1990 Soviet involvement in Eritrean War

• 1974-1991 Soviet involvement in Ethiopian Civil War

• 1974-2002 Soviet involvement in Angolan Civil War

• 1969-1990 Soviet involvement in South Yemen

• 1966-1990 Soviet involvement in South African Border War

• 1964-1979 Soviet involvement in Rhodesian Bush War

• 1960-1990 Soviet involvement in Nicaraguan Revolution

• 1960-1996 Soviet involvement in Guatemalan Civil War

• 1940-1991 Soviet Occupation and annexation of Estonia

• 1940-1991 Soviet Occupation and annexation of Latvia

• 1940-1991 Soviet Occupation and annexation of Lithuania.

• 1940-1991 Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

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

• 1948- Involvement to Arab-Israeli Conflict

#19652014