To my knowledge the last war the Soviet Union fought was in Afganistan back in the 1980's. I've been surfing around looking for info about any other wars or conflicts they've been in since then and so far have found nothing. Does anyone here know who or where they have fought since that era?

Alot of them are fighting for food

Afghanistan, yes, their last war. In fact one of the only war where USSR was directly engaged.

Originally posted by astrapol2
Afghanistan, yes, their last war. In fact one of the only war where USSR was directly engaged.

I'm not sure what you mean by directly engaged, as in WWII the USSR was pretty directly engaged.

Yes, that was the last war, and pretty much the downfall of the USSR. The Russians were fighting Al Qaeda, who had the massive backing of the USA. The US and British press described Osama and his Islamist terrorist trash as "freedom fighters".

I wonder if the USA will "kiss and make up" with the Islamist trash to use them against Venezuala? :p

The USSR didn't exist in WWII - sorry to correct.

Originally posted by DrewM
The USSR didn't exist in WWII - sorry to correct.

Yes it did !

USSR The Creation of the USSR

In Moscow on 23-27 December 1922, the Tenth All-Russian Congress of Soviets took place. Of the 2,215 delegates, 488 were from the neighbouring Bolshevik-controlled states of the Ukraine, Belorussia and Transcaucasia (i.e. Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia). At the Congress, a leading Bolshevik named Josef Stalin made a speech announcing the union of:
the Russia Soviet Federated Socialist Republic with
the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,

the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and

the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist republic.


Stalin concluded:

Let us hope, comrades, that by forming our Union Republic we shall create a reliable bulwark against international capitalism, and that the new Union State will be another decisive step towards the union of the working people of the whole world into a World Soviet Socialist Republic. (Prolonged applause. The "Internationale" is sung.)



The Congress agreed and thereby the 'Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics' (USSR) was set up.

http://www.johndclare.net/Russ7_USSR.htm

BTW, Deepest red, I wrote "one of the few", not "the only one. But apart from WWII (which was not a small thing); I don't see any other war in which USSR was directly involved (meaning : not through another country or military advisors).

Originally posted by DrewM
The USSR didn't exist in WWII - sorry to correct.

Whoa!

No wonder we've had this strange merry go round in discussions, you seem to not grasp much of history. I'll stop repeating myself to you as it's obviously as fruitful as lecturing to a brick wall.

Originally posted by Deepest Red
No wonder we've had this strange merry go round in discussions, you seem to not grasp much of history. I'll stop repeating myself to you as it's obviously as fruitful as lecturing to a brick wall.

We all make mistakes sometimes, when we are tired, distracted, not reading it all correctly, etc. Drew just had a slip of mind in some manner or didn't know about that particular piece of history, maybe he was referring to the PRC.

In any case, you are debating in another thread with him about the theory of communism, debating whether it works well or doesn't work at all.

History doesn't play a massive role in that discussion unless we're talking about the collapse of the nations for evidence reasons, or talking about the successes and defeats of communist industrialization practices.

Cut people slack, if you refuse to debate him further so be it. But keep in mind that is like a Christian refusing to debate an atheist who hasn't read the Bible, that doesn't make other viewpoints moot whether they are ill-informed or uninformed.

Originally posted by astrapol2
Yes it did !

USSR

http://www.johndclare.net/Russ7_USSR.htm



My bad - I was thinking of the USSR in the form we know of, but you are right & I was wrong on that. I actually should have known better than to question a point by Astropol - you are right on pretty much everything you post :)

Deepest Red - give it up - I have reduced all your communism is king arguments to rubble - and have enjoyed making you look foolish.

Originally posted by DrewM
I actually should have known better than to question a point by Astropol - you are right on pretty much everything you post :)

You fool ! I may use this very sentence against you in any debate now.
Thanks anyway.

The Soviet Union declared war on Japan on August 9 1945. No peace treaty was ever signed. Technically, the Soviet Union remained at war with Japan until the former collapsed.

Originally posted by Evakian
We all make mistakes sometimes, when we are tired, distracted, not reading it all correctly, etc. Drew just had a slip of mind in some manner or didn't know about that particular piece of history, maybe he was referring to the PRC.

You're correct that it's not nice to jump all over someone for makign a mistake. I wouldn't usually do so. Had the person in question not been the one going page after page about how wrong communism is, it would be easy to ignore.

It would be like having a discussion about capitalism, while claiming the USA didn't exist!


In any case, you are debating in another thread with him about the theory of communism, debating whether it works well or doesn't work at all.

History doesn't play a massive role in that discussion unless we're talking about the collapse of the nations for evidence reasons, or talking about the successes and defeats of communist industrialization practices.

Cut people slack, if you refuse to debate him further so be it. But keep in mind that is like a Christian refusing to debate an atheist who hasn't read the Bible, that doesn't make other viewpoints moot whether they are ill-informed or uninformed.

"History doesn't play a massive role" in discussing the application of political thoery to the real world? :@@:

Erm ... okay.

Deepest Red - give it up - I have reduced all your communism is king arguments to rubble - and have enjoyed making you look foolish.

Your entire argument was "human nature", the weakest, most unscientific argument there is. If that is your idea of making me look foolish, I invite you to continue.

Are the Ruskies at war in Checnea,or is that another one of them'policing operations'.

Soviet union had war in Afganistan am d Finnland.