Kammala wannan jumlar: A lokacin bayan yakin, Sojojin Soviet sun shiga kai tsaye cikin ayyukan soja da yawa a ƙasashen waje. Wadannan sun hada da dakile
Tashin hankali a Gabashin Jamus (1953), juyin juya halin Hungary (1956) da mamayewar Czechoslovakia (1968). Har ila yau, Tarayyar Soviet ta shiga cikin yakin Afghanistan tsakanin 1979 da 1989.