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• the Soviet Union considered occupying its ally Lithuania soon after signing the Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty of 1920, but the Red Army's defeat at the Battle of Warsaw rendered such plans obsolete?
• the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division was a Ukrainian military formation in the German armed forces during the World War II and that it fought against the Red Army in Graz, Austria?
• the Soviet Red Army's T-10 heavy tank was originally named IS-10 for Iosif Stalin (Joseph Stalin), but was renamed in the climate of de-Stalinization?
• the Red Army prevented the incomplete Borodino class battlecruiser Izmail (pictured) from being converted to a carrier by gaining control of a commission appointed to review the needs of the Navy?
• the Red Army conducted the successful Toropets-Kholm Operation in January 1942, threatening to encircle German Army Group Centre?
• the Soviet 16th 'Lithuanian' Rifle Division had more enlisted Jews than any other division in the Red Army?
• the 21st Mechanized Corps, a Soviet Red Army formation, was disbanded in August 1941 due to failing to defend Lithuania and Latvia from Germany?
• the units of the Red Army and the Afghan army fought the Battles of Zhawar in 1985-86 to destroy a mujahideen supply base near the Pakistani border?
• the first large influx of Russians in Korea came after the fall of Vladivostok to communist forces in 1922?
• the Soviet singer Lidiya Ruslanova financed the construction of two Katyusha batteries, which she presented to the Red Army in 1942?
• the Polish air force combated in the victory of Lublin-Brest Offensive, which cleared the path for the Red Army to recapture Warsaw?
• the Finnish Communist leader Arvo Tuominen broke with the Soviet Union during the Winter War and ordered the Finnish Communists not to assist the Red Army?
• the 1943 German Donbas Operations led to the destruction of 52 Soviet divisions, and the recapture of the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod from the Red Army?
• Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve, now a protected area in Estonia, used to be proving grounds used by the Red Army for military training during the Soviet Era?
• Martyrs' Lane in Baku, Azerbaijan, is dedicated to those killed by the Red Army during Black January and later to those killed in Nagorno-Karabakh War?
• Josef Smrkovský boasted he had kept American units away from Prague in 1945, allowing the liberation of the city by the Red Army, and then in 1968 he and Dubček became the most popular politicians of the Prague Spring?
• Arthur Schmidt told Red Army officers after the Battle of Stalingrad that "a German Field Marshal does not commit suicide with a pair of scissors"?
• a 1939 conflict between Soviet and Japanese troops in the village of Nomonhan is thought to have led to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
• an aerosan is a type of air-powered, armoured snowmobile, which was used for transport, reconnaissance, and raiding by the Red Army in the Winter War and the Second World War?
• soldiers of the Red Army Oleksiy Berest, Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria of the 150th Rifle Division raised the flag of the Soviet Union over the Reichstag for the well-known photograph (pictured)?
• on Christmas Eve 1942, in the Tatsinskaya Raid, the Red Army's 24th Tank Corps captured the German airfield that was conducting the Stalingrad relief airlift?
• near the end of World War II, American soldiers conducted a raid behind Soviet lines to rescue the bay stallion Witez II from a Czechoslovakian stud farm at the behest of captured German officers?
• in Operation Saturn, the Red Army drove the Axis Powers out of the Caucasus and back across the Donets River in the winter of 1942–1943?
• 1944 was called the "year of ten victories" by the Soviet Union for ten battles the Red Army won during that year?