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unusual facts about Soviet military



Dobryninskaya

The side ones feature images of two Parades on the Red Square, the left one of Soviet athletes and the right of the Soviet Military, which featured a portrait of Stalin being carried, and like the bas-relief in the Central Hall, this was removed in 1961 and then carefully replaced with an image of Yuri Gagarin.

Grigoriy Krivosheyev

He is mostly known in the West, via an alternative transliteration of his name, Krivosheev, as the editor of a book on Soviet military casualties in the 20th century, which was translated and published in English.

Iza Orjonikidze

In 1989, Orjonikidze was a member of the special commission investigating the actions of the Soviet military against the pro-independence demonstrations in Georgia on April 9, 1989.

Mihály Iglói

The team's mentality and spirit was badly shaken as the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was bloodily crushed by the Soviet military just weeks before the Melbourne Olympics.


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11824 Alpaidze

Its name honors Galaktion Alpaidze, a Soviet military leader and chief of the Plesetsk rocket proving ground.

9×18mm Makarov

The Soviet military required that their ammunition should be incompatible with NATO firearms, so that in the event of armed conflict a foreign power would be unable to use captured Soviet ammunition supplies.

A-A line

The German Wehrmacht assumed that the majority of the Soviet military supplies and the main part of the food and population potential of the Soviet Union existed in the lands that lay to the west of the proposed A-A line.

Alexei Yegorov

Alexander Ilyich Yegorov (1883-1939), Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union

Arkhangelsky

Arkhangelski, a Soviet military design bureau led by Alexander Arkhangelsky

Black Tulip

Black Tulip (plane), the Soviet military transport Antonov An-12 plane which was taking away corpses of the lost Soviet military personnel ("cargo 200") from the territory of Afghanistan during the Afghan—Soviet war (1979–1989)

Butovo firing range

Among those killed and buried at Butovo were Soviet military commander Hayk Bzhishkyan, Russian statesman Vladimir Dzhunkovsky, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and politician Nikolai Krylenko, former leader of Hungary Béla Kun, Latvian painter Aleksandr Drevin, Latvian film actress Marija Leiko, bishop Seraphim Chichagov, Prince Dmitry Shakhovskoy and Latvian photographer Gustav Klutsis.

By Dawn's Early Light

Renegade Soviet military officers steal a nuclear missile, launching it at the Soviet city of Donetsk from Turkey.

David Glantz

A member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, he has written or co-authored more than twenty commercially published books, over sixty self-published studies and atlases, and over one hundred articles dealing with the history of the Red (Soviet) Army, Soviet military strategy, operational art, and tactics, Soviet airborne operations, intelligence, and deception, and other topics related to World War II.

David Henry Barnett

Additionally, he handed over a great deal of classified information gathered by the CIA on a clandestine operation, code-named HA/BRINK, that had focused on the acquisition of examples of Soviet military hardware sold to the Indonesians during the Sukarno era, including an SA-2 guidance system, designs for the Whiskey class submarine, the Riga class frigate, the Sverdlov class cruiser, the P-15 Termit anti-ship missile and the Tu-16 Badger bomber.

Dmitry Timofeyevich Kozlov

Dmitry Timofeyevich Kozlov (October 23 (November 4) 1896, Razgulyayka, now in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast – December 6, 1967, Minsk) was a Soviet military commander.

Flexible response

The offensive strategy was one of Counterforce, seeking to destroy Soviet military installations and hardware and thus disable this hardware before it could be used.

Gennady Timchenko

Gennady Timchenko was born in Leninakan (now Gyumri), Armenian SSR (Soviet Union) in 1952 with a father who was in the Soviet military.

Gōgen Yamaguchi

During his military tour in Manchuria in World War II, Gōgen was captured by the Soviet military in 1942 and incarcerated as a prisoner of war in a Russian concentration camp; it was here that he battled and defeated a live tiger according to his autobiography (cited above).

Hoja-Niyaz

Other versions speculate he was held alive in prison as far as summer 1943, when he was executed on the orders of Chiang Kai-Shek, who restored Kuomintang control over Xinjiang in 1943 following Sheng Shicai expelling Soviet military personnel and advisers from the province.

Ibrahim Bek

He was a member of the Uzbek Lakai tribe in Eastern Bukhara and led an organized resistance against the Soviet military in the 1920s.

Ili National Army

Rebel aviation included 42 airplanes, captured in Ghulja Kuomintang air base and repaired by Soviet military personnel.

Ivan Gerasimov

Ivan Herasymov (1921-2008), Soviet military general and Ukrainian politician

Juan Velasco Alvarado

In 1973, Velasco announced during a press conference when questioned about Soviet military advisors in Peru, that the United States Peace Corps was being expelled from Peru.

Maslennikov

Ivan Maslennikov (1900–1954), General of the Army, Soviet military and NKVD commander during World War II

Mir EP-3

It was decided by the Glavcosmos chairman that the Afghan's spaceflight would be moved earlier than originally planned, so that it would occur before the Soviet military completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Nicholas Dozenberg

Dozenberg tesified to Congress that in the early 1930s he was dispatched on a mission to Bucharest, Romania, to establish a motion picture company which was to be a front for Soviet military intelligence.

Pozharsky

Ivan Pozharsky (died 1938), Soviet military commissar, Hero of the Soviet Union

Rainis

Similarly, criticism of his work has often been strongly affected by politics; while the Soviets emphasized his socialism (his image even appeared on a commemorative Soviet ruble coin; being buried next to Rainis' grave in Rainis' Cemetery in Riga was an honor reserved for senior Soviet military), Daugava and other patriotic works were omitted from editions of Rainis' texts prior to the Third Latvian National Awakening.

Reusable launch system

Spiral cancelled Soviet military system of small winged reusable orbiter on winged hypersonis air-carrier.

Ronald Pelton

He was debriefed by KGB officer Vitaly Yurchenko and disclosed Operation Ivy Bells, an NSA and United States Navy program to surreptitiously wiretap undersea cables to monitor Soviet military communications and track Soviet submarines.

Semyon Budyonny

Budenovka, a part of Soviet military uniform, is named after Semyon Budyonny.

Songs and poetry of Soviet servicemen deployed to Vietnam

Love ballad, written by unknown Soviet military advisor in the late 1960s.

Soviet Military Power

According to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Soviet Military Power did not constitute any form of propaganda aimed at supporting the increasing defense budgets of the Reagan Administration but was designed instead to alert the American public to a growing imbalance between the military capabilities of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Tajbeg Palace

That evening, the Soviet military launched Operation Storm-333, in which some 700 troops, including 54 KGB spetsnaz special forces troops from the Alpha Group and Zenith Group, stormed the Palace and killed President Hafizullah Amin, who resided there.