Russia's recent history of serial imperialism

In Russia's alternate version of history, WW2 began as a "Great Patriotic War to defend the motherland" in 1941, not in 1939 with Stalin's invasion of Poland and the Baltics as Hitler's ally.

💡 HISTORY: Did you know Russia invaded & occupied every single country to become part of the Soviet Union? Those are the "former Soviet Republics," including Ukraine, Estonia, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan.

In the aftermath of the 1917 February revolution against the Russian Czar, the Russian Empire collapsed and all these countries, as well as Finland, took the opportunity to declare independence. But when the new democratic Russian government was overthrown by the communists in the 1917 Bolshevik October revolution and subsequent bloody civil war of 1918-1921, the communist regime then proceeded to reinvade all these countries (minus Baltic states and Finland) and by 1922 recreated the Russian Empire under a new name - the Soviet Union.

Ribbontrop, the German foreign minister, signing the Nazi–Soviet alliance on 23 August 1939. Soviet foreign minister Molotov and Stalin stand in the background

Background on the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, signed in 1939:

When Stalin & Hitler started the Second World War as allies in September 1939, the Soviet empire promptly invaded Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania and Finland, forcing the Baltic states into the Soviet Union and annexing huge chunks of Poland, Finland and Romania.

The Nazi alliance: German and Soviet officers at the joint military parade in Brest 1939 after the successful capture and partition of Poland

The original annual military parade on the Red Square was held on May 1st - the International Worker's Day. In 1941, Stalin had special guests of honor at the Kremlin for the occasion - Hitler's Nazis - the Soviet Union's allies.

So, Russia has already invaded Europe to build an empire twice in recent history. And now Russia wants to do it for the third time, decades after the empire collapsed yet again in 1989-1991.

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