Saturday, November 12, 2011

Has anyone invaded Russia and won?

The Swedish, French, and German empires collapsed after invading Russia. The Brits, Frenchies, USAns, and Japanese (the last one was also beaten back in 1939) invaded during the Russian Civil War to support the Whites. The Reds won. Of course, Russia has lost wars, such as the Crimean War (fought on the Crimea, in Ukraine), the Russo-Japanese War (fought in Korea and Manchuria) and World War I (fought in the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, and, very briefly, in Finland). I'm sure there some medieval conflict or something I'm not thinking of, but this seems like it would be an awesome curse if its true. So, has a large scale invasion of Russia itself, not just its empire, ever succeeded?

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