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unusual facts about the Soviet Army



Ivan Bushko

From May 1987 till June 1989 he served his military service in the ranks of the Soviet Army in the city of Sambir Lviv Oblast.


see also

119th Regiment

Sassuntsi-Davit Tank Regiment (119th 'Sassuntsi-Davit' Separate Engineer Tank Regiment), a unit of the Soviet Army

87th Division

13th Guards Rifle Division (87th Rifle Division), a unit of the Soviet Army

Aleksandra Samusenko

Beyrle (who was only American soldier known to have served with both the United States Army and the Soviet Army in World War II) was eventually able to persuade her to allow him to fight alongside the unit on its way to Berlin, thus beginning a month-long stint in a Soviet tank battalion, where his demolitions expertise was appreciated.

Arado Flugzeugwerke

Until their liberation in April 1945 by the Soviet army, 1,012 slave laborers from Freiburg, a sub-camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, worked at the Arado factory, beginning with the first trainload of 249 prisoners arriving in August 1944.

Caucasian Front

Transcaucasian Front, a Front (military subdivision) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War

Christianity in East Germany

After World War II, the Catholics in the zone occupied by the Soviet army found themselves under a hostile government.

Karl Hanke

During the waning months of World War II, as the Soviet army advanced into Silesia and encircled Fortress (Festung) Breslau, Hanke was named by Hitler to be the city's "Battle Commander" (Kampfkommandant).

Korea under Japanese rule

American forces under General John R. Hodge arrived at the southern part of the Korean Peninsula on 8 September 1945, while the Soviet Army and some Korean Communists had stationed themselves in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.

Legends of War

The player has the opportunity to change history and reach Berlin before the Soviet army does.

National redoubt

In the six months following the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944, the American and British armies advanced to the Rhine and seemed poised to strike into the heart of Germany, while the Soviet Army, advancing from the east through Poland, reached the Oder.

Nikolai Karetnikov

His Symphony No. 4 (1963) received its first performance in 1968 in Prague, just before the Soviet army invasion to suppress the Prague Spring.

White death

Simo Häyhä (1905–2002), Finnish sniper in the Winter War, nicknamed "White Death" by the Soviet army

Yevgeny Khaldei

He persuaded his uncle to create a gigantic Soviet flag after seeing Joe Rosenthal's photo of the flag raising at Iwo Jima while the Soviet army closed in on Berlin and took it with him to Berlin for the Reichstag shot.