Some Red Army soldiers wore a swastika, others were awarded with pants for bravery, and combat camels contributed to victory in World War II. 1. In Soviet times, the Red Army celebrated its ...

The Russian imperial army and navy disintegrated after the outbreak of the Revolution of 1917, so the Council of the People's Commissars created the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army on a voluntary ...

Two other Red Army soldiers joined them. Khaldei used up an entire roll of film, shooting 36 photographs. Various versions of one of them became an icon of the 20th century. It was an image that ...

But at the end of the war, with Nazi Germany in ruins, expert teams from the Red Army seized more than two and a half million art objects, some 12 million books and miles of archives. Among them ...