Soviet Occupation of Poland

Soviet occupation of Poland can refer to

  • Period from 1939 to 1941 - see Occupation of East Poland by Soviet Union
  • Period from 1945-1989 - see Northern Group of Forces
Soviet occupations
Europe
  • Austria
  • Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
  • Bornholm
  • Baltic states
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Finland
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Western Ukraine
Asia
  • Afghanistan
  • Northern Iran
Italics indicate countries occupied while Soviet Union was a member of the Allies of World War II.

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