Soviet troops
Cold War soldiers
Soviet troops were the military forces of the Soviet Union, particularly the Red Army and its successors.
The term appears most often in historical contexts—World War II, the Cold War, and interventions in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Afghanistan: Soviet troops entered Berlin in 1945, Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989.
The phrase carries Cold War connotations of ideological opposition to the West.
- Red ArmySoviet ground forces
- Red SquareMoscow's central plaza
- invasionForcible entry into territory
- military occupationForeign army's territorial administration
- occupationOne's regular paid work
Afghanistan · tanks · Kremlin · conscripts · Eastern Bloc · satellite states · Cold War · Berlin · Berlin Wall · Prague · Hungary · battalion · Kalashnikov · comrades · Iron Curtain · barracks · propaganda · hammer and sickle
- Communist PolandCommunist era, People's Republic, Solidarity, Walesa, state surveillance
- Soviet-Afghan Warmujahideen, Kabul, Red Army, Kandahar, resistance fighters
- StalingradBattle of Stalingrad, Volga River, Red Army, Wehrmacht, encirclement
- 1956 HungaryHungarian Revolution, 1956, freedom fighters, revolutionaries, uprising
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- Postwar Korea38th parallel, U.S. occupation, military government, occupation forces, military rule
Soviet troopsNATO forces
Western defense alliance military
American troops · US military · British troops · US Army · Bundeswehr
Soviet troopsAmerican troops
Military personnel from USA
U.S. military · British forces · UN forces · coalition forces
Soviet, troops, Soviets, troop, trooper, troopers, trooping, trooped