Soviet Armed Forces

The Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, shortened to just the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Armed Forces, was the military of Soviet Union from 1918 to 1991. It was divided into the Red Army (later known as the Soviet Army), the Soviet Air Forces, and the Soviet Navy. It was succeeded by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation after the Soviet Union crumbled.

It was a primary combatant in the Russian Civil War, World War II, the Winter War, and the Cold War.