Soviet Armed Forces
Military forces of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (1918–1991)
Soviet Armed Forces
The Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the Soviet Armed Forces, were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In May 1992, Russian president Boris Yeltsin issued decrees forming the Russian Armed Forces, which subsumed much of the Soviet Armed Forces. Multiple sections of the former Soviet Armed Forces in the other, smaller Soviet republics gradually came under those republics' control. According to the all-union military service law of September 1934, the Soviet Armed Forces consisted of the Red Army, the Air Forces, the Navy, the troops of the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU), and the convoy guards of the union-republic NKVDs (on 30 October 1925, the convoy guards of the union-republic NKVDs were united into the Convoy Guard under the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union). The OGPU was later corporated...
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