Among those involved, the colonel-general is widely regarded as a commander who is able to get the job done but often at the cost of high human losses. In the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war, it is ...

Roland Lajoie, Army general who helped manage Cold War tensions, dies at 87. An expert on the Soviet military, he implemented a historic program to destroy thousands of Soviet nuclear weapons ...

By the end of the war the Soviet Army numbered more than 11 million officers and men. The Post-War Era In 1946 the word "red" was removed from the name of the armed forces.

A Jewish general in the army of the Soviet Union, General Dragunsky, who arrived here today, refused to comment on the recent arrests and imprisonment of Leningrad and Moscow Jewish leaders, ...

Two Jews were promoted yesterday to the rank of major generals in the Red Army in recognition for their work at the front. The two are Gen. Naum Lewentow and Isaj Rivkin.

The Soviet Union's all-embracing police system had its origin about 35 ... The purge in Beria’s native Georgia was made by General Aleksei Antonov, a wartime army chief of staff ...

The general’s testimony publication has been timed for the 80th anniversary of the start of the Red Army’s largest strategic offensive in Byelorussia (Operation Bagration) during the Soviet ...

The OSIA, which General Lajoie directed until 1991, ultimately conducted inspections at 133 sites across the Soviet Union and confirmed the destruction of 1,800 Soviet missiles.