JERUSALEM – Once a year, Israel's Jewish war veterans don suit jackets and uniforms dripping in Red Army medals, the shiny bronzes and silvers pinned to their chests in tight rows like armor.

The huge size to which the Red Army had grown by ... a delight for German marksmen. When World War II engulfed the Soviet Union in 1941, Moscow had the largest army in Europe, with almost 2 ...

The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the conflict between the Soviet Union and the Third Reich, and WWII as a whole ... 200 km west of Moscow, the Red Army lost up to one million ...

About 500,000 Jews served in the Soviet Red Army during World War II. Most of those still alive today - about 7,000 - are said to live in Israel. Every year on Victory Day, which falls on Thursday ...

To understand the Soviet Army ... Red Square had a new row of faces for the gigantic military parade marking the Anniversary of the Great Socialist Revolution. Most of the veterans of World War II ...

The battle of Rzhev, in which the Red Army launched a ... emotional attitude to World War II history, said that “we will always remember the high price the Soviet people paid for the victory.” ...

This day became the "Day of the Soviet Army ... ensuring the army of politically loyal future officers. World War II Looms... In 1937 a drastic purge crippled the Red Army, reducing its morale ...

the Red Army barreled into Berlin and captured the city, the final step in defeating the Third Reich and ending World War II in Europe. In one of the war’s most iconic images, Soviet soldiers ...