The Red Army faced the problem of creating a competent and reliable officers' corps, leading Trotsky to mobilize former officers of the imperial army. In the years of the Civil War, up to 50,000 ...

At the height of the war against Mexico the U.S. Army grew to an approximate 73,000 Soldiers with 35,000 of them being considered as a part of the Regular Army. After the war ended the United ...

The Red Army was militarised Communism. 'Stalin's regime waged war in the same spirit as it prosecuted peace,' wrote historian Catherine Merridale in Ivan's War, her definitive work on the ...

By the end of the war, the Red Army would destroy or defeat over 600 German divisions on the Eastern Front, eliminating three quarters of all German military equipment. It would kill some three ...

Armed with explosives, flamethrowers, and pure bravery, the Red Army’s Assault Sappers were ... to ease policy in bid to shore up trade-war hit economy A Fossil So Strange Scientists Think ...

How the Red Army Finally Defeated the Finns Posted: April 14, 2025 | Last updated: April 14, 2025 Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Winter War concludes with a video ...

Other nations in the 1930s and 1940s tried them. The Soviet Red Army utilized cruder versions during the Winter War, with the thick layer of snow in Finland making them useful transports.

This evolution of the Red Army began as early as December 1939 and continued steadily, partly because of and partly in spite of fresh reverses and losses, until now the Russian war machine is not only ...