51.  Soviet forces take Lucenec in eastern Czechoslovakia.

52.  The Cold War-era United States backed fighters who battled the Soviet forces in Afghanistan.

53.  The group is mostly made up of activists who had fought with Saudi exile and suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden against Soviet forces in Afghanistan.

54.  The Fulda gap is the area in central Germany where it was thought Soviet forces could most easily penetrate to the west.

55.  The former Soviet forces occupied the islands in the closing days of World War II, ousting Japanese residents living there.

56.  The four small islands off the northern tip of Japan were seized by Soviet forces in the closing days of the war.

57.  The Gestapo prisoners had been forced to dig a tank trap against advancing Soviet forces.

58.  The plaques also disappeared in August when the industrial city was preparing to celebrate the anniversary of its World War II liberation by the Soviet forces.

59.  The presence of foreign troops is highly controversial in a country which refused to allow Soviet forces on its soil through decades of the Cold War.

60.  The specific reference was to Soviet forces deployed during the war that year between India and Pakistan.