The Soviet Union signaled its push into the Middle East through a combination of military support, political alliances, and economic aid to various countries in the region, particularly during the Cold War. The 1955 Baghdad Pact and the subsequent establishment of relationships with countries like Egypt and Syria exemplified this strategy. Additionally, the Soviet Union provided arms and training to Arab states, which aimed to counter Western influence and promote socialist ideologies. These actions marked a significant deepening of Soviet involvement in Middle Eastern affairs.
It depends on what "in" refers to. If the question is geographic, i.e. Are China and the Soviet Union part of the region called the Middle East, then No. China is part of the Far East or East Asia, which is a very different region. The Soviet Union stretched from Eastern Europe to Siberia, but did not include any part of the Middle East. If the question is about involvement, i.e. Are China and the Soviet Union involved politically with the Middle East, then, Yes. China needs an incredible amount of energy to power its economy and much of that energy comes overland from the Middle East, from countries such as Iran and Iraq. Therefore, China has a strongly developed Middle East policy. The Soviet Union had strong military involvement in the Middle East using the Arab-Israeli Conflict as a way of having proxy wars with the United States. As a result, much of Arab military craft in the 1960s-1980s was of Soviet design.
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The Soviet Union.
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Directly, the Russo-Finnish War and the Second World War. Indirectly, pretty much every conflict in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East during the existence of the Soviet Union.
He was the leader of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union greatly controlled East Germany.
The Soviet Union, or USSR.
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The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
Asia has the Middle East, Far East, the central republics which recently became independent when the Soviet Union collapsed, and the Indian sucontinent.
Modern Russia is approximately 6,200 miles from east to west. At its largest, the old Soviet Union was about 7,000 miles from east to west. The Soviet Union was wider.