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Parent topics
- Soviet Union [r]: A Communist state, which took over the Russian Empire, after the Russian Revolution of 1917 that existed from 1922 to 1991; the major part now extant as the Russian Federation [e]
Subtopics
- Main Intelligence Administration of the General Staff [r]: More commonly known by the initials of its Romanized Russian name,Glavnoye Razvedovatel'noye Upravlenie (GRU), the national military organization of both the Soviet Union and Russian Federation, roughly comparable in mission (but not methods) to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency [e]
WWII and prewar
Leaders
- Joseph Stalin [r]: (1878 - 1953) The head of Russia's Communist ("Bolshevik") party and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death. [e]
- Semyon Budenny [r]: An Old Bolshevik cavalry general and favorite of Joseph Stalin who rose to Marshal's rank, but was described as a man with "a very large mustache and a very small brain" [e]
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Georgi Zhukov [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov [r]: Leader of the Russian Liberation Movement, Soviet soldiers supporting Germany during World War II. [e]
Actions
- Operation Barbarossa [r]: The German invasion of the Soviet Union, beginning on June 22, 1941 [e]
- Siege of Stalingrad [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Siege of Leningrad [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Kursk [r]: Add brief definition or description
Cold War
- Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
- Afghanistan War (1978–1992) [r]: A civil war in Afghanistan that matched the Soviet Union and its Afghan allies against a coalition of anti-Communist groups called the mujahideen, supported from the outside by the United States, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. [e]
- Soviet support for Iran during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Soviet efforts to maintain a positive relationship during and after the Iran-Iraq War; they regarded Iran as more strategically important than Iraq [e]
- Operational Maneuver Group [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Maskirovka [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Organs of State Security [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Committee for State Security [r]: Usually known as the KGB, one of Organs of State Security of the Soviet Union, with extensive responsibilities in intelligence (information gathering), border security, counterintelligence and suppression of dissent; split up in the Russian Federation with counterintelligence in the FSB and foreign intelligence in the SVR [e]
- Russian Liberation Movement [r]: Add brief definition or description