T he iconic image of Nazi Germany’s defeat is Yevgeny Khaldei’s photograph of a young Red Army soldier raising a Soviet flag atop the Reichstag over a smoldering Berlin in May 1945. That ...

The Soviet Army, with its enormous size and power, was the largest and most formidable military force in history. Between ...

By the end of the war the Soviet Army numbered more than 11 million officers and men. The Post-War Era In 1946 the word "red" was removed from the name of the armed forces.

German forces were in retreat, reeling from the aftermath of Stalingrad. But at Kharkov, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein defied orders, regrouped, and struck back. By luring Soviet troops into a ...

1. In Soviet times, the Red Army celebrated its professional holiday on February 23, which was the day in 1918 when the Red Army defeated the Kaiser's troops near Narva and Pskov.

Now, on May 8, the day of liberation, the same police officers have been given license to harass former concentration camp prisoners or veterans of the Red Army for carrying flags of the Soviet Union.

Russian soldiers wear the Red Army uniform of World War II and carry Soviet-era military flags with a red star during a parade to mark the Red Army's victory over the Nazis in this May 9, 2000 ...

About 500,000 Jews served in the Soviet Red Army during World War II. Most of those still alive today - about 7,000 - are said to live in Israel.

On Dec. 25, 1991, at 7:32 p.m., the Soviet flag came down over the Kremlin, and the pre-revolutionary Russian flag of white, blue and red horizontal stripes took its place.