This day became the "Day of the Soviet Army ... ensuring the army of politically loyal future officers. World War II Looms... In 1937 a drastic purge crippled the Red Army, reducing its morale ...

It began when Nazi Germany unleashed ferocious attacks across Europe - but it spread to the Soviet Union ... Germany's powerful army. On 17 September, Stalin sends the Red Army to occupy eastern ...

He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for ... is a soldier in the Red Army and is captured early on in WW2. When the Germans propose ...

A combination of the Japanese and former Manchurian armies fought against the enemy made up of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia ... that were used by the Red Army to store supplies.