Soviet military

1969 Original Soviet Military Infantry Soldier's Uniform M69, Vintage USSR Army Suite

Russian Soldier

Staff officers and officer-scholars of Soviet military academies marching through Red Square in the 1982 Moscow October Revolution Day Parade.

The Soviet Motor Rifle (MRR) and Tank Regiment (TR) in the 1980s had a broadly stable organisational structure with little significant structural change. Equipment change was however quite dramatic as the cold war arms race heated up in the final years of the cold war just prior to the collapse of the soviet union in 1991. Currently my concept of the cold war ends in 1993 with the withdrawal of the forward deployed groups of forces by the Russians. The factors that affect the composition of…

From the book 'The Soviet Soldier 1941-1945 by Phillip Rio. www.amazon.com/Soviet-Soldier-1941-1945-Philippe-Rio/dp/2... I highly suggest this book if you are interested in Red Army equipment,It's a treasure of information.