Soviet Army
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The Soviet Ground Forces also known as the Soviet Army was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992. It was preceded by the Red Army.
US tanks and Soviet tanks at Checkpoint Charlie, October 1961
Soviet anti-air instructors and North Vietnamese crewmen in the spring of 1965 at an anti-aircraft training center in Vietnam
A Russian soldier of the 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division in Moscow, January 1992, a few weeks after the dissolution of the USSR. He is wearing the Soviet winter Afghanka uniform.
A U.S. assessment of the seven most important items of Soviet combat equipment in 1981
Red Army
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The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often referred by its shortened name as the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was esta
Soviet Army
…sukhoputnye voyska) also known as the Soviet Army was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992. It was preceded by the Red Army. After the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991, the Ground Forces remained under the command of the Commonwealth of Independent States until…
Red Guards unit of the Vulkan factory, Petrograd
Leon Trotsky and Demyan Bedny in 1918
Vladimir Lenin, Kliment Voroshilov, Leon Trotsky and soldiers, Petrograd, 1921
Anti-Polish Soviet propaganda poster, 1920