The fate of Mr Wallenberg, who was detained by Soviet troops in January 1945, is unclear.
Mourka the courier cat reportedly carried messages to Soviet troops during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942.
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At the end of the war they joined the crowds nervously greeting the entry of Soviet troops.
Soviet troops defeated the German Sixth Army, in what is considered one of the major turning points of World War II.
Following the withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989, most of the Arab fighters in Pakistan, including Mr. bin Laden, returned home.
In 1940, Soviet troops occupied the Romanian regions of Bessarabia and Bucovina.
And they see all the invasions and all the foreign troops that have come and gone in Afghanistan from Soviet troops and so on.
Germany has granted the USSR the right to continue to station as many as 380, 000 Soviet troops on former East German territory through 1994.
The police patrols -- which have drawn some 12, 000 Soviet troops in the exercise with local police authorities -- have already resulted in over 5, 000 arrests.
Najibullah was a charismatic and ruthless leader, but, as the last of the Soviet troops departed, no one gave him much of a chance to remain in power.
In 1989, 100, 000 Soviet troops left Afghanistan under a U.N.
Like the National Gallery in Washington, the Hermitage in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) and other Russian galleries also took a fancy to German art treasures located by Soviet troops in 1945.
Prince Hans Adam bought the archives at auction in London in 1990, and has exchanged them for his own family archives which were seized by Soviet troops from a castle near Vienna in the Second World War.
Among other things, this was accomplished through the device of allowing their credits to be used to "purchase" narrow national objectives such as German reunification, the removal of Soviet troops and preferential treatment in cleaning up large payment arrearages to German firms.
Although some 30, 000 of the 74, 000 Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia are reported to have left by June 1990 and the remainder are scheduled to be removed from Czechoslovakian soil by June 1991 pursuant to a bilateral agreement between Moscow and Prague signed earlier this year, key headquarters and logistical elements remain in place and available to support a much larger military force in the future.
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Russian forces pushed troops from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia out of a key town 50 miles from the Georgian capital Monday, prompting a plea from President Bush that Russia accept Georgia's move toward a peace agreement.
Others preferred the old arrangement, devised for the cold war, under which America promised to defend Japan (avoiding the need for Japan to play a bigger military role of its own) in return for the right to station American troops there to ward off Soviet aggression.
In 1990, the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw all of its 73, 500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July 1991.
Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war in August 2008 over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia -- the first time Russia sent troops abroad to fight since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
In the immediate aftermath of the Soviet Union's demise, we reduced the numbers of US troops deployed forward.
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Russia's foreign minister reacted angrily to an announcement from Washington that American troops would be sent to train anti-terrorist forces in ex-Soviet Georgia .
They're troops--they're bases, rather, that are kind of left over from that Soviet era when this was a Soviet republic.
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