Soviet Armed Forces in World War II

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The Soviet Armed Forces in World War II were the military forces of the USSR whose massive Eastern Front campaigns played a decisive role in defeating Nazi Germany.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf armed forces
military force
alliedWith British Armed Forces in World War II
Polish Armed Forces in the East
United States Armed Forces in World War II
alsoKnownAs Red Army in World War II
Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army in World War II
capturedCity Berlin
Budapest
Königsberg
Prague
Vienna
casualties tens of millions of military and civilian dead and wounded
commander Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Boris Shaposhnikov
Fyodor Tolbukhin NERFINISHED
Georgy Zhukov
Ivan Konev
Joseph Stalin
Kliment Voroshilov
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Nikolai Vatutin NERFINISHED
Rodion Malinovsky NERFINISHED
Semyon Timoshenko
conflict World War II
conscription universal male conscription
country Soviet Union
decisiveRoleIn defeat of Nazi Germany
doctrine deep operations theory
endTime 9 May 1945
engagedIn Battle of Berlin
Battle of Kursk
Battle of Moscow
Battle of Stalingrad
Operation Bagration
Operation Barbarossa
Siege of Leningrad
Soviet–Japanese War
Vistula–Oder Offensive
front 1st Belorussian Front
1st Ukrainian Front
2nd Belorussian Front
2nd Ukrainian Front
3rd Belorussian Front
3rd Ukrainian Front
Bryansk Front
Don Front
Far Eastern Front
Kalinin Front
Leningrad Front
Stalingrad Front
Voronezh Front
Western Front
hasPart NKVD troops
linked to: NKVD

Red Army
Soviet Air Forces
Soviet Navy
Soviet partisan units
ideology communism
language Russian
notableAircraft Il-2 Shturmovik
linked to: Ilyushin Il-2

La-5 fighter
linked to: Lavochkin La-5

Yak-3 fighter
linked to: Yakovlev Yak-3
notableFormation Guards units
shock armies
tank armies
notableOperation Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation
Uranus encirclement at Stalingrad
counteroffensive near Moscow 1941
notableWeapon IS-2 heavy tank
KV-1 heavy tank
Katyusha rocket launcher
Mosin–Nagant rifle
PPSh-41 submachine gun
T-34 medium tank
occupation Eastern Europe after 1944
opponent Finland
Imperial Japan
Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Italy
Kingdom of Romania
Nazi Germany
partOf Allies of World War II
politicalControl Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Stavka of the Supreme High Command
receivedAidFrom Lend-Lease program of the United States
linked to: Lend-Lease program
serviceBranch airborne troops
armored forces
artillery
engineer troops
infantry
startTime 22 June 1941
subclassOf Soviet Armed Forces
linked to: Soviet armed forces
symbol Red star
theater Eastern Front of World War II

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United States Armed Forces in World War II alliedWith Soviet Armed Forces in World War II
East Prussia wasSceneOf World War II Eastern Front operations
linked to: Soviet Armed Forces in World War II
British Armed Forces in World War II alliedWith Soviet Armed Forces in World War II
Soviet Armed Forces in World War II alsoKnownAs Red Army in World War II
linked to: Soviet Armed Forces in World War II
Soviet Armed Forces in World War II alsoKnownAs Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army in World War II
linked to: Soviet Armed Forces in World War II
Sviatoslav Richter militaryService Soviet Union in World War II
linked to: Soviet Armed Forces in World War II
10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg opposedBy Soviet Red Army on the Eastern Front
linked to: Soviet Armed Forces in World War II