The Red Army was a shadow of its former self when Germany invaded the USSR in 1941. It took all the energy of General Zhukov, Resistance and the Allies to overcome the Nazis. On its way to Berlin, the Red Army discovered the extermination camps. Germany surrendered on May 2, 1945.
Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the USSR and the Capitalist Bloc engaged in interposition conflicts. In the 1970s, the living conditions of soldiers deteriorated. The long intervention in Afghanistan definitively undermined the Soviet system. At the end of 1991, the USSR disappeared. The Red Army is now confined to a symbolic purpose, between nostalgia and nationalism.
