A guilt-ridden Russian officer says he resigned from the military out of shame for the invasion of Ukraine “People around us were dying,” he told CNN. “I didn’t want to feel like I was ...

By the end of the war the Soviet Army numbered more than 11 million officers and men. The Post-War Era In 1946 the word "red" was removed from the name of the armed forces.

Just past midnight on Sept. 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov was on overnight duty inside Serpukhov-15, a secret bunker southwest of Moscow where the Soviet Union monitored its early-warning satellites ...

Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer whose calm under pressure saved the world from an atomic war, has been confirmed dead at 77. He actually died earlier this year, on May 19.