The Soviet Red Army was crucial in the defeat of German forces in World War II. The army itself was created as the Soviet’s Communist revolutionary combat groups during the Russian Civil War that began in 1918 and ended in 1922.
It is a lesser known war, because World War I overshadowed it. Anyways, the Red Army grew into the national army after the civil war. Actually, by the 1930s, the Red Army was one of the largest armies in history. Let’s get back to World War II.
So, the Red Army came at the Germans from the Eastern Front and played a very important role in the European Theater with their decisive land and air attacks. They engaged and defeated 75 to 80 percent of the German forces that were deployed to combat.
The other major Allie players were the United States and the United Kingdom, but combined they only defeated 20 to 25 percent of the deployed German forces during the Second World War.
