Soviet military
Cold War forces
The Soviet military refers to the armed forces of the Soviet Union (1922–1991), which included the Red Army, Soviet Navy, and Air Forces.
The term often evokes Cold War imagery of massive tank formations, nuclear arsenals, and the Afghan war: Soviet military doctrine emphasized overwhelming force.
It appears in historical discussions of World War II's Eastern Front and superpower rivalry.
- Red ArmySoviet ground forces
- tank divisionsMilitary formations of armored vehicles
- May Day paradePublic march on workers' holiday
- World War IISecond global military conflict
- SpetsnazRussian elite military units
Cold War · Iron Curtain · Berlin Wall · nuclear submarines · radar systems · patriotic songs · Cuban Missile Crisis · GRU · secret police · Operation Barbarossa · Battle of Stalingrad · satellite reconnaissance · Kalashnikov · propaganda posters · war memorials · hammer and sickle · Warsaw Pact · nuclear arms race
- Soviet HistoryUSSR, CCCP, Stalin, Kremlin, Bolsheviks
- Cold War AsiaNorth Korea, Vietnam, Korean War, Mao, Stalin
- Cold War militariesWarsaw Pact, People's Liberation Army, tank divisions, armored divisions, mechanized infantry
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- Sakhalinoil fields, gas fields, coal deposits, fishing industry, salmon fishing
Soviet militaryNATO
Western defense organization
NATO forces · U.S. Army · British military · Pentagon · United States Navy
Soviet, Soviets, military, militarily, militarism, militarist, militaristic, militarize, militarized