Russia
- Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria 1223-1236
- Mongol invasion of Rus 1237-1240
- Russo-Kazan Wars 1438-1552
- Russo–Crimean War (1571)
- Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905
- World War I 1914–1917
- World War II 1939–1945
- Soviet-Japanese Border Wars 1938-1939
- Winter War 1939–1940
- Soviet invasion of Manchuria 1945
- Cold War 1945–1973, 1979–1991
- Sino-Soviet border conflict 1969
- Soviet war in Afghanistan 1979-1989
- 2008 South Ossetia war 2008
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Famous quotes containing the word russia:
“Today’s difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“... from Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror ...”
—Golda Meir (1898–1978)
“... gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hatpin.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)