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The Slovak Soviet Republic (Slovak: Slovenská republika rád, Hungarian: Szlovák Tanácsköztársaság, Ukrainian: Словацька Радянська Республіка, romanized: Slovatska Radianska Respublika, literally: 'Slovak Republic of Councils') was a short-lived Communist state in southeast Slovakia in existence from 16 June 1919 to 7 July 1919. [1]
US Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger presenting President Ronald Reagan with the first copy of Soviet Military Power. Soviet Military Power was a public diplomacy publication of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which provided an estimate of the military strategy and capabilities of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War, ostensibly to alert the US public to the ...
The Soviet Armed Forces, [a] also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, [b] the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
Slovakia joined NATO on 29 March 2004. [5] From 2006 the army transformed into a fully professional organization and compulsory military service was abolished. [6] [7] [8] Slovak armed forces numbered 19,500 uniformed personnel and 4,208 civilians in 2022. [1] Slovak Armed Forces organization 2024 (click to enlarge)
German invitations to Slovakia, Lithuania, [9] Hungary [10] and the Ukrainian Nationalists [11] to be part of the Fourth Partition of Poland on 4–10 September 1939. Consisting of Lithuania receiving the Vilnius Region, Hungary the Turka and Sambir citys, and Ukraine the southern Kresy (cancelled due to Soviet approachments). [12]
Soviet sphere of influence in Central and Eastern Europe with border changes resulting from invasion and military operations of World War II. During World War II, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed several countries effectively handed over by Nazi Germany in the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939.
The Slovak Expeditionary Army Group of about 45,000 men entered the Soviet Union shortly after the German attack.This army lacked logistic and transportation support, so a much smaller unit, the Slovak Mobile Command under command of Rudolf Pilfousek (a.k.a. the Pilfousek Brigade), was formed from units selected from this force; the rest of the Slovak army was relegated to rear-area security duty.
Following a request for military aid by Ukraine, the Slovak Air Force provided a number of aircraft and equipment as aid. In April, this included the donation of a Soviet era S-300PMU air defence battery, in addition to 4 Mil Mi-17 and one Mil Mi-2 helicopters, through the European Peace Facility .