The Soviet army discovered the camp in Majdanek in Nazi-occupied Poland in July 1944.
In fact, our current ambassador in Moscow, Ambassador Beyrle, his grandfather briefly fought with the Soviet Army.
But the debacle of the Soviet Army's performance in Afghanistan in the 1980's largely put paid to this myth of invincibility.
More than 500 survivors of the notorious Sachsenhausen camp on the outskirts of Berlin attended a ceremony marking its liberation 22 April 1945, also by the Soviet army.
When the Soviet army reached Majdanek in July 1944, they found much of it intact despite attempts by the Nazis to destroy the camp before retreating.
Some writers have credited Mr Masoud with driving the Soviet army from Afghanistan when the reality was more prosaic: the Russians withdrew because of growing civilian opposition at home, rather as the Americans were undermined in Vietnam.
The titanic battle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union's Red Army for the city at the end of World War II left the city in ruins.
Soviet troops defeated the German Sixth Army, in what is considered one of the major turning points of World War II.
With both Mr. Gadhafi and the Soviet Union off the stage, Chad's army has been wrapped up in the instability that at present troubles the belt of desert countries across the top of Africa.
In 1942, the German army began its all-out attack on Stalingrad against stiff Soviet resistance.
India's army uses about 2, 000 infantry combat vehicles made by the former Soviet Union.
Mr Saakashvili had to tread carefully in Ajaria because of a sprawling ex-Soviet base near Batumi, a legacy of the days when this was a cold-war frontier between the Red Army and Turkey, a NATO member.
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