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During the Second World War 400 'line' rifle divisions , 129 Soviet Guards rifle divisions, and over 50 cavalry divisions as well as many divisions of combat support arms were raised in addition to the hundreds of divisions that existed in the Red Army before Operation Barbarossa.
Iconic photo of a Soviet officer (thought to be Ukrainian Alexei Yeryomenko) leading his soldiers into battle against the invading German army, 12 July 1942, in Soviet Ukraine. In early 1942, the Soviets began a series of offensives labelled "Stalin's First Strategic Offensives".
According to current historical wisdom, large numbers of veteran and well equipped Siberian divisions were deployed protecting the USSR’s eastern borders against a possible attack by Japan on 22nd June 1941.
The following is a list of Soviet military equipment of World War II which includes firearms, artillery, vehicles, aircraft and warships. World War II was the deadliest war in history which started in 1939 and ended in 1945.
List of Soviet divisions 1917–1945. The Soviet Union 's Red Army raised divisions during the Russian Civil War, and again during the interwar period from 1926. Few of the Civil War divisions were retained into this period, and even fewer survived the reorganisation of the Red Army during the 1937–1941 period.
After unleashing World War II in 1939, fascist Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. The war in Russia called the Great Patriotic War started, lasting 1418 days and nights, and finished with a crushing defeat of the aggressor.
10 mar 2017 · Soviet photojournalist Yevgeny Khaldei recorded amazing scenes in the devastating war between Nazi Germany and the USSR. He was with the Soviet Army, when it reached Berlin, where he...
