Here’s What You Need to Remember: Following the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia is arguably more vulnerable while many of its former communist-era satellite states – including Poland, Hungary and Romania, along with the Czech and Slovak Republics – now being members of NATO. […]
While the idea of NATO attacking Russia may seem farfetched to most Americans, the Russians have reason to fear an invasion from the west. Over the past several centuries Russia has been repeatedly invaded by such powers as Poland, Sweden, France and Germany.
The United States also took part in what could be seen as an ”invasion” of sorts when troops were sent to Russia during the nation’s Civil War in 1918. The American military intervention at Archangel, Russia earning the nickname ”Polar Bear Expedition” and it was actually to prevent the German advance and to help reopen the Eastern Front following Communist Russia’s acceptance of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Instead of fighting the Germans however, the American soldiers found themselves fighting Bolshevik forces.
Just two decades later Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and drove deep into ”Mother Russia,” besieging Leningrad and reaching the gates of Moscow before winter set in and stopped the advance. Other Russian cities were occupied and by war’s end many had been leveled – including Stalingrad, which had been the site of the mother-of-all battles and the turning point for the Germans. Läs artikel