No they didn't. Hong Kong was the only portion that the UK really had and that was a timed lease. There were other places where the UK had established itself, but the British Empire didn't border the USSR at all as nearly as I can tell, except one thing I'm not entirely sure of -- Persia/Iran. Was Persia part of the British Empire? I don't know for certain ... Middle Eastern holdings was as close as you're going to get to having a common border though. Iraq was a French colony BTW.Dameon said:The UK still owned land around the USSR I believe, some in China and a little in the Middle East with some troops in iraq I believe. They would have been close to the USSR.
Well consider that no military is more accustomed to winter fighting and immense distances than the Russians. On problem is that committing forces to invading Alaska might leave the USSR open to the Japanese from Manchuria and (depending on what year were talking about) the Germans.Howevere if the USSR did manage to ge past the Ice that seperates Alaska with the Russia, and did manage to get troops and stuff thier at that point in time it would have taken a while to get enough to invade Canada and then make it to the USA.
They had the biggest of all of those except navy. At least double that of anybody else. 3 times as many tanks as anyone else. 3 times as many combat aircraft. They had a terrifying military force actually. Most of the world had no idea how gigantic their military truly was.airmanpatroler said:Well the Russians would have a really hard time BEFORE WW2 to fight anybody I man they really didnt have a decent army or air force or navy for that matter.
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