Red Army

On Christmas Eve 1979, a combined air and land invasion of Afghanistan commenced. The Red Army quickly seized many urban areas, roads and communication lines. Afghan president (during the cold war) Hafizullah Amin, was himself captured and executed to be replaced by the more moderate Babrak Karmal by the Soviets. Disputes swiftly erupted internationally on whether this was an intervention or an invasion. The West and many Muslim countries decided on the latter. The tribal warlords were repulsed to the mountains by the invasion which was only a new stage in their struggle. The foreign orthodox invader gave credence to this being a Jihad or Holy War. The warlords were soon united as the Mujahedeen, committed to combating the Soviets. The US began…

labor camps where many subsequently died. The Stalin left no stone unturned in his quest to eliminate threats to his power, The Terror swept through field and factory and impacted everyone from ordinary citizens to powerful officials. Beyond the assault on the average citizen and official, the Terror would also target high ranking military officials and the results would be costly to the Red Army, not just in lives but also in its preparedness for the wars to come. During the Russo-Finnish…

piece of propaganda was created by the White Army to attack The Red Army and the Jews. The White Army opposed Trotsky and the Red army in the Russian civil war. They created this piece to condemn the Red army by showing them as the cause to the brutal Russian Civil War. They blamed the Jewish people and Trotsky of causing the civil war by showing that the Jews and the Red army sided with the Chinese. Trotsky and the Jews were not the sole cause of the Russian Civil War, but the White army used…

as well to satisfy his long ideological desire as described in “Mein Kampf” to eradicate the Bolsheviks from the face of the earth. By June 22nd 1941 Operation Barbarossa fired off. (Graham) Around 4 million soldiers, tanks, self-propelled guns and aircraft swept through the unsuspecting Soviet Union delivering a rapid and bloody blow to the Red Army. Hitler anticipated the Soviet’s collapse no later than August of 1941. By fall the German forces have already conquered most of the Soviet Union;…

Russians would have had no hope for World War two, and had to have been defeated by the Nazi army. If Russia had fallen, it could have meant a whole new outcome to World War two, changing the world as we know it. Stalingrad held the original name of Tsaritsyn until the year of 1925. It was renamed for Joseph Stalin, the leader of the country. After the Russian civil war (1917-1922), the Bolsheviks took over the country, turning it into a red state. The city is famously known for its resistance…

During his service, he developed a lifelong friendship with the fellow soldier from Odessa and the girls from local towns were in the picture. Aunt Ghenya kept working in the same cafeteria; in three years of Victor’ service she never missed a chance to send him a care package with food, worm socks, and change of clothes. Victor started the Army service as an awkward skinny boy, three years later he returned home self-assured young man. The thoughts of his past became were far removed, replaced…

casualties on the Russians, showing the rest of the world how weak the Red army was after Stalin’s purges. Britain and France had even briefly considered helping Finland and declaring war against the Soviets. It was clear to Hitler that invading Russia was not only inevitable but also possible. Hitler began preparing for such an invasion, despite the pleas of his generals not to do so. Many of the military advisors in Nazi High Command had served in Russia in World War one, and knew firsthand…

Soviets’ actions and wanted to mend relations in the west. In addition, the war effort had a crippling effect on the economy and the fate of Soviet Russia would be determined by the outcome of the war. Once defeat was imminent, Gorbachev wanted to prevent further damage and decided to withdraw his army. The last soldier to cross the Friendship Bridge to the border city of Termez, in Uzbekistan, did so on February 15, 1989. Although the withdrawal was called a year earlier, it was hard for the…

As seen through the eyes of Dr. Zygumunt Klukowski in his diary of the occupation, the Poles were very wary of the Red Army’s invasion and some like Klukowski himself were demoralized as the appearance of the Red Army robbed the Poles of their chance to claim their own victory against the Germans and their subsequent freedom. The Red Army’s actual occupation of liberated towns in Poland was not very different from German occupation, they were strict and enforced a curfew among other rules,…

the armies in the north and south, and the capture of the city would implement German expansion into the Caucasus region, which was rich in oil. Stalingrad was also an important target as it was Russia’s centre of communications in the south as well as being a centre for manufacturing producing tanks, among other equipment, for the Soviet war effort.3 The German command desired to command this important territory as quickly as possible, therefore they planned to capture Stalingrad on July…