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:
“In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies. They draw very fine distinctions.”
—Jerome Cady, U.S. screenwriter, and Lewis Milestone. Peter Voroshevski (Howard Clinton?)