What part did Russia play in World War 1 and World War 2?

Answer 1

The USSR (Russia made up part of the USSR) part of World War Two starts on the eve of the war with the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Germany.

The treaty was a non-agression pact and carved up Eastern Europe between Nazi Germany and the USSR.

On Sept17 1939, according to the pact the Soviets attacked Poland - stabbing her in the back while she was still fighting Germany. They took the Eastern portion of the country while the Germans took the West and centre.

Following this on the 28th, the Soviets took over the Baltic States of Lativa, Lithunia (except for the Memel area which went to Germany) and Estonia.

In November 1939, the USSR attacked Finland after attempting them to hand over ground. They were looking for a simlar result as the Baltic states but were resorted to fighting it out with the Finnish army, there brave stand lasted to the following March when peace terms (after the Finnish army had ran out of ammunition and recived no real outside help, and after inflicting 400 000 casulties upon the Red Army) were agreed which resulted in around 10% of the country being given over to the Soviets.

The Soviets next move was on June 26th 1940 to force Rumania to hand over the Bessarabia area and some other regions to them. Without any backing from the outside world, the Rumanians compiled.

Then till the 22nd June 1941 there was no major moves by the Soviets. On the 22nd, Operation Barbarossa was launched by the Germans and her allies.

Following this the British alligned themselves with there former enemy (they had planned on attacking Soviet oil production facilities if they kept on supplying the Germans and also made plans to send aid to Finland etc).

The Soviets and the British made there first combinded move in taking control of Persia (modern day Iran) on August 25th 1941.

With the control over Persia and the Western ally control over Iraq, supplies where able to be shipped through to the Soviets.

From the north the Soviets where supplied via the ports of Murmansk and Archangel, although all of the lend lease supplies only provided a small percentage of the Red Armies needs, it nether the less made it self known.

From 1941 to 1945 the Eastern Front became the biggest and most bloody front of the Second World War and was one of the major reasons which lead to the defeat of Hitlers Germany.

Approx 5 million German and axis soldiers died on the eastern front (not to mention the huge casualty list) and approx 10 million Soviet and other allied soldiers died (although some lists claim as high as 25 million dead - the Soviet government supressed all death figures and relased there own so to hide the huge losses they took).

With the Eastern Front won by 1944, politics came into play. Stalin was able to convice FDR of his good intentions which lead to Rumania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgeria, Czechoslovakia etc to come under the Red Armys control with Commuist sateliite governments set up.

Germany was carved between the Western Allies and the Soviets, as was Berlin ... with all these moves the kmykrkrystal kaytenea buffer zone between the west and the USSR proper so that the country would never be ravaged as much as it was again.

Following Germanys defeat and according to the Yalta agreeent, the Soviets declared war on Japan in mid 1945. In a double pincer movement and about a weeks fighting the Soviets detroyed a large Japanee3tne3tj3eyhtwi4th4uihse army before advancing and capturing all of Manchukuo and the northern part of the Korean penensulia.

There destruction of such a large Japanese force, coupled with the continuous defeats at the hands of all her enemies and the atmoic bombs lead to the Japanese surrender.

From there captured positions the Soviets would supply the Commuisnt Chinese and help them to win the Chinese Civil War and bring China under the commuist flag.