2nd Guards Tank Army
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The 2nd Guards Tank Army was a large military formation of the Red Army and Soviet Army, later part of the Russian Ground Forces of the Russian Federation.
Soldier of the 21st Motor Rifle Division at Perleberg, East Germany, in the 1980s
The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany from 1945 to 1989 and the Western Group of Forces from 1989 to 1994 were the troops of the Soviet Army
2nd Guards Tank Army
…was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union twice. After the war ended the Army, now named Second Guards 'Red Banner' Tank Army, was located with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany with the staff in Fuerstenberg. However the only wartime formation that continued to serve with the Army was the 16th Guards Tank Division (the former…
Inspection of 39th Guards Motor Rifle Division, 1968.
Abandoned Soviet Army barracks in Stendal, 1991.
Soviet military equipment being loaded aboard a ferry in Rostock, March 1991.
Soviet Military Road Police watchpost in Wittenberg, 1991.