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Below is a list of various forms of military occupations by the Soviet Union resulting from both the Soviet pact with Nazi Germany (ahead of World War II), and the ensuing Cold War in the aftermath of Allied victory over Germany. [7] [8] [9]
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, [a] often shortened to the Red Army, [b] was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars [1] to oppose the military forces of the new nation's adversaries during the Russian Civil War, especially the various groups ...
First formed during Russian Civil War from the 2nd Ukrainian Red Army and the Crimean Red Army and fought in the Southern and Southwestern Fronts. 16th Army: First formed during the Russian Civil War from the Lithuanian-Belorussian Red Army and fought on the Western Front. Red Army of the Northern Caucasus: In the Caucasus, 1918. Ukrainian Red Army
Pages in category "Soviet military occupations" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. ... Red Army invasion of Georgia; S. Singing Revolution;
A contingent from the Armenian Armed Forces carrying the banner of the 89th Rifle Division during the 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade.. A national military formation (Russian: Национальные воинские формирования) refers to a regiment/division in the Soviet Red Army of the Soviet Union, formed before and during the Second World War on the basis of nationalities of ...
Pages in category "Red Army units and formations of World War II" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II were major military events carried out between 1941 and 1945 on the Eastern Front or in 1945 in the Far East during the Second World War. Such operations typically involved at least one Front – the largest military formation of the Soviet Armed Forces .
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.