This day became the "Day of the Soviet Army". On April 22 the Soviet government decreed compulsory military training for workers and peasants who did not employ hired labour. This was the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" of Auschwitz on the 80th anniversary of the Red Army's liberation of the Nazi death camp. Auschwitz was ...

This path would see the Russian military revert back to the Soviet-era, with huge armies of conscripts armed from massive weapons stocks built by Russia's defense-industrial base. "An underlying ...