Soviet Ground Forces

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The Soviet Ground Forces were the land-based military branch of the Soviet Armed Forces, responsible for large-scale ground operations and defense throughout the existence of the USSR.


Statements (73)
Predicate Object
instanceOf army
land warfare branch
allegiance Communist Party of the Soviet Union
conflict Cold War
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Korean War
Prague Spring
Sino-Soviet border conflict
Soviet–Afghan War
World War II
controlledBy Ministry of Defence of the USSR
country Soviet Union
dissolved 1991
doctrine Deep operation
Operational maneuver group
followedBy Ground forces of other post-Soviet states
Russian Ground Forces
Ukrainian Ground Forces
garrison Central Group of Forces
Group of Soviet Forces in Germany
Northern Group of Forces
Southern Group of Forces
headquartersLocation Moscow
highestCommand General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR
ideology Marxism–Leninism
inception 1946
militaryBranchOf Soviet Armed Forces
motto For the Motherland
nativeName Сухопутные войска СССР
notableCommander Dmitry Yazov
Georgy Zhukov
Ivan Konev
Rodion Malinovsky NERFINISHED
partOf Soviet Armed Forces
peakPersonnelStrength millions of personnel
precededBy Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
recruitment conscription
role ground defense of the USSR
land warfare
large-scale offensive ground operations
standardServiceRifle AK-47
AK-74
AKM
subdivision air defense units
airborne units under separate command
artillery units
chemical troops
combined arms armies
engineer troops
logistics units
motor rifle divisions
rifle divisions
signal troops
tank armies
trainingDoctrine mass conscript army
usedEquipment air defense systems
armored fighting vehicles
infantry small arms
multiple rocket launchers
self-propelled artillery
surface-to-surface missiles
tanks
towed artillery
usedLanguage Russian
usedScript Cyrillic
usedVehicle BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle
BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle
BTR series armored personnel carriers
T-54/55 tank
T-62 tank
T-64 tank
T-72 tank
T-80 tank


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