Penal battalions were given suicidal tasks. By the end of the war the Soviet Army numbered more than 11 million officers and men. In 1946 the word "red" was removed from the name of the armed forces.

Document by the Ruhr Red Army that lays out the principles that it's soldiers must adhere to in course of the fight against the Reichswehr. The full name of individual commanders are Karl Wohlgemuth, ...

South of Rostov (where, Stockholm reported, the Russians had captured Bataisk, 10 miles away), red army men stormed a number of enemy defense points and broke into a railroad station, capturing a ...