 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Soviet Union yakatanga hukama hwehukama neHumambo hweIraq musi wa9 September 1944. Hurumende yaMambo Faisal II yaipesana nechiKomonisiti, uye yakaumba hukama neMoscow nekuda kwekuvimba kwayo neUnited Kingdom uye Anglo-Soviet Chibvumirano cha1942. Muna January 1955, hurumende yeSoviet yakashoropodza chisarudzo chehurumende yeIraq chokubatana neBaghdad Pact, iyo yakatungamirira kuIraq yemari kudimbura ukama hwehukama nemaSoviet. Pashure pokunge Faisal II abviswa musimba rechiuto musi wa14 July 1958, Republic of Iraq ichangobva kuziviswa inotungamirwa naGeneral Abd al-Karim Qasim yakadzorera hukama neSoviet Union munaKurume 1959, uye Soviet Union yakatanga kutengesa zvombo kuBaghdad. Muna November 1958, Soviet Union yakatumira uto kuIraq pamwe chete nemapurisa eMig-17 neIl-38. Pashure pokubvuta hurumende yeIraq muna 1963, hurumende itsva yakatambudza makomonisiti, uye Soviet Union yakambomisa kutengesa zvombo kunze kwenyika kusvikira muna June 1964. Soviet Union yakapa hurongwa hwakakosha hwemauto kuIraq, senge ndege dzehondo kusanganisira ndege dzehondo dzeMiG, matangi, uye pasi-kune-mhepo missile system, pamwe nerubatsiro mune vekare veSoviet vemauto uye varapi vehurumende avo vakapa rubatsiro rwehunyanzvi. Muna 1967, Iraq yakasaina chibvumirano neUSSR chokupa rudzi rwacho mafuta mukutsinhana nokuwana kukuru zvombo zveEastern Bloc. 