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Originally Posted by Rochard
Russia wanted partial control of those countries for a "buffer zone from the west" being as "the west" (being defined as "Nazi Germany") over ran them and nearly made it all the way to Moscow. No country suffered greater than the Soviet Union did.
Could the US had over run all of those countries and attacked Russia during the cold war? Maybe. But if you look at the past history of the Soviet Union and how they pretty much fought back Nazi Germany on their own.... Makes any country think twice about attacking them.
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Yep. Nazis took the whole Europe and almost reached Moscow. They were stopped in about 40 kilometers to Moscow borders.
Napoleon took Kremlin in 1812.
But that story has ended up with Kozaks in Paris.
The same story happened to Poland in 1612 etc. Even Mongols that conquered almost the whole Euro Asia and ancient Russia were defeated and assimilated here. Anybody here knows anything about Mongolia (which is a very big country actually) nowadays? Yep, nobody knows and nobody cares anymore
This small video sums it up pretty well: