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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 ...
The flag of the Soviet Union, which has been used by the Russian military and pro-Russian militias in Ukraine since 2014. The Victory Banner, which was raised by the Red Army at the Reichstag during the Battle of Berlin in May 1945, has been flown alongside the Russian flag and the Soviet flag in many parts of Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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 ...
11th Army (Soviet Union) 12th Army (Soviet Union) 13th Army (Soviet Union) 144th Guards Motor Rifle Division; 150th Guards Motor Rifle Division; 16th Army (RSFSR) 18th Army (Soviet Union) 1991 Soviet coup attempt; 1st Baltic Front; 1st Belorussian Front; 1st Cavalry Army; 1st Guards Army (Soviet Union) 1st Guards Tank Army; 1st Red Banner Army ...
The flag of the Soviet Union consisted of a plain red flag with a gold hammer crossed with a gold sickle placed beneath a gold-bordered red star. This symbol is in the upper left canton of the red flag. The colour red honours the red flag of the Paris Commune of 1871; the red star and the hammer and sickle are symbols of communism and socialism.
"Banner of Victory #5" was raised just below a statue on the roof of the Reichstag building The Symbol of Victory Banner (1996–2007) was an alternative to using the historic Victory Banner, until pressure from Red Army veterans caused the original flag to be used again. The Soviet Banner of Victory (Russian: Знамя Победы, romanized ...
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.
Flag of the Red Banner Central Asian Military District, preserved at the House of Officers in the former Kazakh SSR. At the end of the 1980s, immediately before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there were sixteen military districts, within three to five main groupings: Western Theatre Western Strategic Direction. Group of Soviet Forces in ...