There was only one state that effectively subdued Russia, and it’s long gone now.
When talking about enemies trying to invade and conquer Russia, we’re talking about a time span of roughly 1,000 years and several different “Russias”, including the Ancient Rus, the Moscow Tsardom, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The enemies, too, came in different forms. A Northern military state. A faraway Eastern empire. Several crazy tyrants with ambitions of world domination. All of them failed to conquer Russia. We only took a look at the most outrageous attempts – because mentioning each and every war, in which Russian territories were attacked could take forever.
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