Yeltsin ’ s early purges of the MVD paid dividends in October 1993 when in spite of many " defections " to the opposition, the two most important people in the ministry, Minister of Internal Affairs Viktor Yerin and the Commander of Internal Troops Anatoliy Kulikov, stood by him to the victorious end of his stand-off with the Supreme Soviet.

1966 Soviet postage stamp depicting Bering's second voyage and the discovery of the Commander Islands

After the World War Two, Nosaka's return to Japan was facilitated by E. Herbert Norman, the Canadian representative to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, who may also have been a Soviet spy.

No Soviet civilian administration was set up, the USSR simply administered it through the military commander of Porkkala, a post held ( from an unclear date ) until 1 January 1956 to Sergey Ivanovich Kabanov ( 1901 – 1973 ), the former Commander of Hanko naval base.

However, the Soviet Union's only representative in Reims was General Ivan Susloparov, the Military Liaison Mission Commander.

Arif Abdul Razzak, another pro-Nasser Air Force Commander, attempted a coup d ' état on Arif, and lightly bombed the Presidential Palace with Soviet MiG 17 jets, but the coup failed and he was arrested.

Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, AC, Hero of the Soviet Union, ( born January 13, 1949 ) is a former Indian Air Force test pilot who flew aboard Soyuz T-11 as part of the Intercosmos program.

Also Commander in Chief and Flag Officer of the Soviet Navy, made Fleet Admiral in July 1945 and Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Union in July 1955 and again ( posthumously ) in 1988 due to his wartime and postwar roles in the Navy.

* Konstantin Rokossovsky – Marshal of the Soviet Union, Commander of the First Belorussian Front, Marshal of Poland and Polish Minister of National Defense, Deputy Minister of Defense and Commander of the Transcaucasian Military District, Chief Inspector of the Soviet Ministry of Defense.

* Mikhail Katukov – Marshal of the Soviet Union, 1st Guards Tank Army Commander.

Made Marshal of the Soviet Union, First Deputy Minister of Defense, and Supreme Commander of the Warsaw Pact in 1967.

* Semyon Budyonny – Military Commander, 1st Cavalry Army in the Civil War and later of the Army Cavalry Commands, also Marshal of the Soviet Union and from 1937 to 1940, Commanding Officer, Moscow Military District.

* Georgy Zhukov — Military commander and politician credited with many of the most significant Soviet victories of WWII, Commander of the First Belorussian Front and Marshal of the Soviet Union.

However, new evidence shows Stalin held meetings with a variety of senior Soviet government and military figures, including Vyacheslav Molotov ( People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs ), Semyon Timoshenko ( People's Commissar for Defense ), Georgy Zhukov ( Chief of Staff of the Red Army ), Nikolai Kuznetsov ( Commander of both North Caucasus and Baltic Military Districts ), and Boris Shaposhnikov ( Deputy People's Commissar for Defense ).

In the November 1945 elections, Hungary, the Hungarian Communist Party, under Gerő and Mátyás Rákosi got 17 % of the vote, compared to 57 % for the Smallholders ' Party, but the Soviet Commander in Hungary, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov installed a coalition government with Communists in key posts.

* Ivan Bagramian – ( 1897 – 1982 ) Soviet Marshal ; Deputy Minister of Defense, World War II Commander of a Front.

He returned to the Soviet Union, which restored his Soviet ranks and honours ; and in July 1957, following the removal from office of Defence Minister Zhukov, Nikita Khrushchev appointed him Deputy Minister of Defence and Commander of the Transcaucasian Military District.

After his retirement in 1960 from the post of Commander of the Turkish Navy, Korutürk was appointed by the Head of State Cemal Gursel as Turkish ambassador to the Soviet Union and later to Spain.

* August 20 – Armored forces under the command of Soviet General Georgi Zhukov deliver a decisive defeat to Japanese Imperial Army forces in the Japanese-Soviet border war in Inner Mongolia.

The Bradley was developed largely in response to the Soviet BMP family of infantry fighting vehicles, and to serve as both an Armored personnel carrier ( APC ), and a tank-killer.

In regard to mechanization, the First Romanian Armored Division was equipped with around 100 Czech-built Panzer 35 ( t ) tanks, armed with a gun ineffective against the armor of Soviet T-34 tanks.

The 3rd Armored Division had a number of T-72 tanks, the only non-Republican Guard force to have them, while the other armored battalions had T-62s and T-55s, a few of which had an Iraqi appliqué armor similar to the Soviet bulging armor also known as " brow " laminate armor or BDD.

The New Zealand Army ultimately fielded a division of roughly similar composition to a Soviet Mechanized Corps, which fought in the Italian Campaign, although it had little scope for mobile operations until near the end of the war.

* 36th Tank Division ( Soviet Union )-with 17th Mechanized Corps ( Soviet ), June 1941

* 3rd Mechanized Corps ( Soviet Union )

* 30th Mechanized Brigade ( Ukraine ) ( 13th Guards Cavalry Division, Soviet Union )

* Soviet 1st Guards Mechanized Corps

* 15th Mechanized Division ( Soviet Union )

* 2nd Guards Tank Army ( HQ Fürstenberg ) · Soviet 1st Mechanized Corps, 9th Tank Corps, 12th Guard Tank Corps

* Soviet Mongolian Cavalry Mechanized Group under I.

On 6 July, the Soviet 20th Army's 7th and 5th Mechanized Corps launched an attack with about 1, 500 tanks near Lepiel.

Up to the middle of December the army comprised the 14th Rifle Corps, 50th Guards, 197th, 203rd and 278th Rifle Divisions, 90th and 94th Separate Rifle Brigades, the Soviet 1st Guards Mechanized Corps, the 22nd Motor-Rifle Brigade and other units.

It was not a part of any one of the three ( later four ) zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops respectively.

Soviet Russia has been invaded twice by German troops in a generation.

Somehow, the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the stark, blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home.

Under Yakov Segal's direction, it begins stirringly, as crouching Soviet and Nazi troops silently scan each other, waiting for the first surrender gesture.

Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.

* 1945 – Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet troops.

* 1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops, a day commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Following the 1979 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet troops, Massoud devised a strategic plan for expelling the invaders and overthrowing the communist regime.

* 1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip " Tito " Broz signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow " temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory ".

* 1946 – Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11 month occupation.

* 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a combined German – Estonian force successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet troops.

* 1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.

In addition to these troops Belarus was the area of deployment for units subordinated directly to the USSR Defence Ministry and chiefs of different Soviet Armed Forces services, namely the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, the 38th Guards Airborne Brigade, the 11th corps of the 2nd Separate Air Defence Army, the 26th Air Army and also units and formations of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Long Range Aviation, the Navy and special forces.

Even though Bulgaria did not send any troops to support the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Navy was involved in a number of skirmishes with the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, which attacked Bulgarian shipping.

A large force of British troops also remained in Germany, facing the threat of Soviet invasion.

During the Ili Rebellion and Peitashan incident, Chiang deployed Hui troops against Uyghur mobs in Turfan, and against Soviet Russian and Mongols at Peitashan.

While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.

Lumumba demanded that Belgium remove its troops immediately, threatening to seek help from the Soviet Union if they did not leave within two days.

On 3 July, American troops left the city and the city became part of the Soviet Zone of Occupation and East Germany.

However, during the withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989, Afghanistan's natural gas fields were capped to prevent sabotage by the Mujahideen.