Soviet Invasion

Soviet Invasion can refer to:

  • Soviet invasion of Poland (1939), a military operation during the early stages of World War II
  • Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, a 1968 invasion of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
  • the second phase of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920, when Soviet armies marched on Warsaw, Poland
  • Red Army invasion of Georgia, also known as the Soviet-Georgian War (1921)
  • Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, when British and Commonwealth forces and the Soviet Union invaded Iran during World War II
  • Soviet war in Afghanistan, also known as the Soviet-Afghan War (1979)
  • Soviet Invasion (album), an EP by the band Witchfinder General

Famous quotes containing the words soviet and/or invasion:

    The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not the invasion of ideas.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)