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Germany invades Poland, September 1, 1939, using 45 German divisions and aerial attack. By September 20, only Warsaw held out, but final surrender came on September 29.
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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Cambridge Core - The Red Army in Yugoslavia, 1944-1945 (PDF). Jun 19, 2026
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - The Red Army in WWII. Oct 17, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - Soviet industry and the Red Army under stalin: a military-industrial complex? (PDF). Aug 08, 2025
Add new Web site: Harvard University - Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies - The Soviet Role in World War II: Realities and Myths. Mar 21, 2025
Add new Web site: Cambridge Core - The Red Army in Yugoslavia, 1944-1945 (PDF). Jan 10, 2025
Add new Web site: Warfare History Network - Wretched Misconduct of the Red Army. May 13, 2024
Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine - Soviet Army. Oct 11, 2023
Add new Web site: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War - Red Army. Aug 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Alpha History - The Red Army. Jun 23, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - The Red Army and the Second World War. May 12, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - The Soviet Army. Dec 23, 2022
Add new Web site: Russiapedia - Red Army. Nov 16, 2022
Media added. May 21, 2020
Add new Web site: History Learning Site - The Red Army. Feb 04, 2014
Information added on the celebration in post-Soviet Russia of February 23 (former Soviet Army Day) as Defender of the Fatherland Day. Jun 24, 2010
Videos of Trotsky reviewing troops and of Red Army in World War II added. Jun 24, 2010
Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - The Red Army. Jul 03, 2008
Article revised and updated. Aug 23, 2007
Added new Web site: PBS - Russian Archives Online - The Red Army.
  • Gaurav Shukla
 Apr 19, 2007
Added new Web site: Telegraph - Red Army.
  • Gaurav Shukla
 Apr 19, 2007
Added new Web site: Economic and Social Research Council - Society Today - A Social History of the Red Army at War.
  • Gaurav Shukla
 Apr 19, 2007
Added new Web site: The Story of the Soviet Red Army.
  • Gaurav Shukla
 Apr 19, 2007
Added new Web site: Fire and Ice - Soviet Tactics.
  • Gaurav Shukla
 Apr 19, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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