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13 de may. de 2024 · On April 22, 1918, the Soviet government decreed compulsory military training for workers and peasants who did not employ hired labour, and this was the beginning of the Red Army. Its founder was Leon Trotsky, people’s commissar for war from March 1918 until he lost the post in November 1924.
Red Army soldiers celebrating the capture of Berlin, May 1945. During and immediately following the assault, in many areas of the city, vengeful Soviet troops (often rear echelon units) engaged in mass rape, pillage and murder.
The Red Army was involved in armed conflicts in the Republic of China during the Sino-Soviet conflict (1929), the Soviet invasion of Xinjiang (1934), when it was assisted by White Russian forces, and the Islamic rebellion in Xinjiang (1937) in Northwestern China.
The Red Army learnt much from the Wehrmacht – and adapted what it learnt so that it worked in a Soviet context. However, Soviet losses were all too often horrendous through to the very end of the war, and not just because of stubborn resistance from the enemy.
The Fall of the Red Army: Directed by Antonio Calvache. With Miguel Cabanellas, Conde de Rodezno, Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta, Francisco Franco.
18 de jun. de 2024 · It took place from April 20 to May 2, 1945, and it ended with the fall of Berlin to the Soviet Red Army, which took revenge for the suffering of the Soviet people since 1941. In April 1945, the Soviet Union assembled outside Berlin one of the largest concentrations of military power ever seen.
the Catastrophe of 1941. CYNTHIA A. ROBERTS. WHEN THE GERMAN ARMY struck the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, Stalin and the Soviet military were staggered by the blow. The Soviet dictator went into self-imposed seclusion and the Red Army began its headlong retreat into the Russian heartland.
