" Feeling the Full Force of a Four Point Offensive: Re-Interpreting The Red Army's 1944 Belorussian and L ' vov-Przemyśl Operations.

The Soviets increasingly were able to challenge the Luftwaffe, and while the Luftwaffe maintained a qualitative edge over the Red Air Force for much of the war, the increasing numbers and efficacy of the Soviet Air Force were critical to the Red Army's efforts at turning back and eventually annihilating the Wehrmacht.

On 25 January 1945, in spite of Himmler's lack of military experience, Hitler appointed him as commander of the hastily-formed Army Group Vistula ( Heeresgruppe Weichsel ) to halt the Soviet Red Army's Vistula – Oder Offensive into Pomerania.

He was well known for aiding Joseph Stalin in the Military Council ( led by Leon Trotsky ), having become closely associated with Stalin during the Red Army's 1918 defense of Tsaritsyn.

When the leadership gathered at Stalin's dacha at Kuntsevo Stalin shouted at Voroshilov who replied in kind, blaming the failure on Stalin for killing the Red Army's best generals in his purges.

A London message from the GRU, the Red Army's foreign military intelligence directorate, dated 10 August 1941, refers to the GRU reestablishing contact with Fuchs.

* 1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends with the Union unable to achieve any of its objectives.

Referring to the Eastern Bloc, the report stated that " the Red Army's liberating role was complemented by an upsurge of the freedom-loving peoples ' liberation struggle against the fascist predators and their hirelings.

Hitler had grown overconfident from his rapid success in Western Europe and the Red Army's ineptitude in the Winter War against Finland in 1939 – 1940.

Lev Glezarov's special commission screened and recruited ; by mid-August 1920 the Red Army's former Tsarist troops comprised 48, 000 officers, 10, 300 administrators, and 214, 000 NCOs.

At war's end in 1922, ex-Tsarists constituted 83 per cent of the Red Army's divisional and corps commanders.

The slogan Exhortation, Organization, and Reprisals expressed the discipline and motivation ensuring the Red Army's tactical and strategic success.

After four years of warfare, the Red Army's defeat of Wrangel in the south allowed the foundation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922.

By 1 October 1924 the Red Army's strength diminished to 530, 000.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, in Operation Barbarossa, the Red Army's ground forces had 303 divisions and 22 separate brigades ( 4. 8 million soldiers ), including 166 divisions and 9 brigades ( 2. 9 million soldiers ) garrisoned in the western military districts.

Stalin increased mobilization, and by 1 August 1941, despite 46 divisions lost in combat, the Red Army's strength was 401 divisions.

In 1941, the Soviet government raised the bloodied Red Army's esprit de corps with propaganda eschewing class struggle for the defense of Motherland and nation, employing historic examplars of Russian courage and bravery against foreign aggressors.

Even though the Red Army's 29 mechanized corps had no less than 29, 899 tanks on paper by 1941, they proved to be a paper tiger.

Among the victims was the Red Army's primary military theorist, Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, perceived by Stalin as a potential political rival.

* Reese, Roger R. Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: The Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II ( University Press of Kansas ; 2011 ) 400 pages

But the " information " Heydrich had received was actually misinformation planted by Stalin himself in an attempt to legitimize his planned purges of the Red Army's high command.

Before the war, Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania had a population of 1, 278, 700, of whom many perished during the war and another share moved west in the course of the Red Army's advance.

After this, the Bulgarian army ( as part of the Red Army's Third Ukrainian Front ) fought the Germans in Yugoslavia and Hungary, sustaining numerous casualties.

After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice, snow fell on October 15, 1825, and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick.

She pilots a generic heavy spacecraft called Red Tail which is pale blue despite the name and has been heavily modified with armament and tracking sensors.

In order to gain weaponry, some of the Red Guards located along the Viipuri-Tampere railway had been alerted beforehand, on 23 – 26 January, to safeguard Russian trains carrying a heavy shipment of weapons to the Finnish Reds, as agreed between Ali Aaltonen and V. I.

After a heavy, concentrated artillery barrage, the White Guards began advancing from house to house and street to street, as the Red Guards retreated.

Rock bands of the 1980s and 1990s including Faith No More, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Tool, Alice in Chains and Rage Against the Machine have been identified as laying groundwork for the development of nu metal by popularising elements of the genre, such as combining aggressive riffs with pop structures and drawing influence from a variety of genres within and outside of heavy metal.

Rap rock fusion proved to be influential among rock artists, with ' 80s bands like Faith No More, Anthrax ( whose collaboration with Public Enemy on " Bring the Noise " was directly influenced by " Walk This Way ") and the Red Hot Chili Peppers adding elements of rap to alternative rock and heavy metal.

After passing through three of the four blockhouse fortifications needed to escape Chiang's encirclement, the Red Army was finally intercepted by regular Nationalist troops, and suffered heavy casualties.

The title track was a protest against nuclear proliferation and became his first top ten hit in countries outside the U. S. Prince's " Little Red Corvette " was one of the first two videos by a black artist played in heavy rotation on MTV, along with Michael Jackson's " Billie Jean ".

Those scattered sections of E / 116 landing at Easy Red were able to escape heavy casualties, although, having encountered a deep runnel after being landed on a sandbank, they were forced to discard most of their weapons to make the swim ashore.

On the Dog Red / Easy Green boundary, the defenses around the Les Moulins strongpoint took a heavy toll on the remaining 2nd battalion, H / 116 and headquarters elements struggling ashore there.

In January 2008, Russia announced it would resume parading military vehicles through Red Square, although recent restoration of Iverski Gate complicated this, by closing one of existing passages along Historical Museum for the heavy vehicles.

In the late 1940s Acheson came under heavy attack over Truman's policy toward China, and for Acheson's defense of State Department employees ( such as Alger Hiss ) accused during the anti-Communist Red Scare investigations of Senator Joseph McCarthy and others.

On October 22 of that year, in what is known as the Battle of Red Bank, an attack by 900 Hessian troops, serving under British Major General William Howe, who then occupied Philadelphia, was repelled, with heavy losses on the Hessian side ( including the death of their commander, Colonel Carl Emil Kurt von Donop ) by the 600 Continental defenders under Colonel Christopher Greene.

* The heavy metal band Crimson Glory wrote and released the song " Masque of the Red Death ", which follows the story, on their 1988 album Transcendence.

During World War II, Braunsberg was occupied by the Soviet Red Army following the Braunsberg Offensive Operation ( 13 March 1945-22 March 1945 ) following the elimination of the German Heiligenbeil Pocket, and suffered heavy destruction due to fighting and subsequent looting.

It was released on March 28, 1995, and shows the band moving from their original heavy metal sound to one more influenced by alternative metal, with hints of Anthrax, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, while retaining the Guns N ' Roses-style hard rock aesthetic on which they based their sound.

The Kliment Voroshilov ( KV ) tanks were a series of Soviet Red Army heavy tanks, named after the Soviet defense commissar and politician Kliment Voroshilov.

The T-64 was the earlier offering of the Morozov Design Bureau ( KMDB ), a high-technology main battle tank designed to replace the obsolescent IS-3 and T-10 heavy tanks, used in the Red Army's independent tank units.

Despite heavy losses, in the Winter War the Red Army's 20th Tank Brigade, equipped with T-28s, fulfilled its mission to break the defensive Mannerheim Line.

The T-35 was a Soviet multi-turreted heavy tank of the interwar period and early Second World War that saw limited production and service with the Red Army.

In November 1939, the Soviet Union staged the Shelling of Mainila and invaded Finland in what became known as the Winter War, which took a disproportionally heavy death toll on the Red Army.

The slowness and heavy armour made them comparable to the Red Army's KV-1 heavy tanks, but the Matilda had nowhere near the firepower of the KV.

In an effort to break the blockade, the Red Army under the orders of the three man committee besieged the forts many times but suffered heavy casualties with little success, resulting in the Jiangxi Soviet shrinking significantly in size due to the Chinese Red Army's disastrous manpower and material losses.