The huge size to which the Red Army had grown by 1941 ... This had been almost unheard of in the old Russian army, so there was no special uniform for them, requiring Soviet quartermasters to ...

When the USSR was consigned to the history books in 1991, so was the Soviet Army, which was carved up ... right down to the old uniform that was so synonymous with the vanished superpower.

The Soviet Red Army uniform was a poor man’s version of the ... Made of the fur, skinned from 3-day-old baby lambs of a special breed called Karakul, these hats kept the Russian generals warm ...

But it's a symbol that's been trademarked by Heineken and other companies established before the Russian Revolution ... The star was sewn on all Red Army uniforms. Joseph Stalin often wore ...