Sentence examples for soviet armed forces from inspiring English sources

In December 1940 he signed Directive No. 21 for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union and the annihilation of the Soviet armed forces and state.

On the evening of August 20, Soviet armed forces invaded the country and quickly occupied it.

In August 1942 Zhukov was named deputy commissar of defense and first deputy commander in chief of Soviet armed forces.

Uncertainly, sometimes incompetently, the Soviet armed forces learned the lessons imposed on them by Germany's panzer armies in 1941.

After the war he set the course by which the Soviet armed forces eventually reached their high levels during the Cold War.

In 1971 Marshal Kulikov, then 50, became chief of staff of the Soviet armed forces, making him the third-ranking officer in the Soviet command structure.

However, on the evening of Aug. 20, 1968, Soviet-led armed forces invaded the country.

DMITRI V. TRENIN Mr. Trenin is the deputy director of the Carnegie Moscow Center and a former officer in the Soviet and Russian armed forces.

"This feels like 22nd June 1941," the Ukrainian official said, referring to the day when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union.Ukraine's armed forces are much less well-equipped than the Russian army.

The operation's codename, Ring, referred to the encirclement of the towns of Getashen and Martunashen by the Soviet MVD and armed forces.

By 1986, under Soviet guidance, the local armed forces had been built up to an official strength of over 300,000.