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    September 1939, starting World War II. The Soviets invaded eastern Poland on 17 September. Following the Winter War with Finland, the Soviets were ceded territories...
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  • Soviet military equipment of World War II which includes firearms, artillery, vehicles, aircraft and warships. World War II was the deadliest war in history...
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    World War II losses of the Soviet Union were about 27,000,000 both civilian and military from all war-related causes, although exact figures are disputed...
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    The Soviet Union took part in World War II from 1939 until the war's end in 1945. At the start of the war, the Soviet Union suffered loss of valuable...
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    Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a theatre of World War II fought...
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    Soviet–Japanese War was a campaign of the Second World War that began with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria following the Soviet declaration of war against...
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    Tuvan People’s Republic entered World War II on the side of the Allied Powers, shortly after the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany that broke the...
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    Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II. It...
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    Soviet women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union). While most worked...
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  • war in the Soviet Union during World War II: POWs during the Winter War and the Continuation War. Before the Winter War (1939–1940), the Soviet Union...
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  • media related to World War II posters from Soviet Union. WW2 Propaganda posters A detailed selection on World War II posters. A Soviet Poster A Day Detailed...
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  • The following is a list of prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union during World War II. The Soviet Union had not signed the Geneva convention relative...
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    in the Second World War initially in a defensive war against the Soviet Union, followed by another, this time offensive, war against the Soviet Union...
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    Propaganda in the Soviet Union was the practice of state-directed communication aimed at promoting class conflict, proletarian internationalism, the goals...
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  • Soviet Union and its successor state, the Russian Federation; from their first use after World War I, into the interwar period, during World War II,...
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  • During World War II, large numbers of Polish and Soviet Jews fled eastwards from German-occupied Europe or were deported by the Soviet Union. The majority...
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    of war were captured by the Soviet Union during World War II, most of them during the great advances of the Red Army in the last year of the war. The...
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  • military deception Soviet deep battle Harris, Russell (May 14, 2013). "The Finnish Campaigns: Failure of Soviet Operational Art in World War II". Command and...
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  • Paolo (1977). World War II Airplanes. Vol. 2. Chicago: Rand McNally. ISBN 0-528-88171-X. Ward, Edward (2021). Russian Aircraft of World War II: 1939 - 1945...
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    Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, made between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in August 1939 before the outbreak of World War II. The three independent Baltic countries...
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    The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded...
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    multitude of war crimes and crimes against humanity were carried out by the Soviet Union or any of its Soviet republics, including the Russian Soviet Federative...
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    During World War II, Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held by Nazi Germany and primarily in the custody of the German Army were starved and subjected to...
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    woman to become a Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II (February 16, 1942), posthumously.[citation needed] In addition, over 100 people received...
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  • Red Army Military units and formations of the Soviet Union in World War II Field armies of the Soviet Union Army groups of the National Revolutionary Army...
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    invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II and preceding casus belli. Later in the morning of that day German ambassador to the Soviet Union Friedrich-Werner...
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    This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline...
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    of war in the Soviet Union is the narrative of POWs from the Italian Army in Russia (the ARMIR and CSIR) and of their fate in Stalin's Soviet Union during...
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    is the official symbol of the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany during the Second World War. It is also one of the national treasures of Russia...
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  • This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from the Soviet Union.   This color, along with the corresponding footnote, indicates that a listed person's...
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