Social security for special categories of disabled people in the Ukrainian SSRin the 1920s. by Olha Murashova, Yurii Zinko

“…Social protection of special categories of the disabled, which included the Red Army, the disabled of the World War І and the Civil War, family members of the dead military, persons who had special merits before the Soviet state, was carried out by the People's Commissariat of Social Security through its departments on the ground at the expense of the state budget. …”
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Bobruisk line of defense at the end of June 1941 by S. E. Novikov, A. V. Sushko

“…The commentary, based on the use of little-known documentary information, reveals the content of the traditional and new historiographic narratives about the defensive battles of the Red Army in the context of solving local problems of keeping one of the defensive lines on the Berezina River near the Belarusian city of Bobruisk by Soviet troops. …”
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Sudeten: Erinnerung reinterpretiert by Jan Pacholski

“…As a result, it became one of many so­called monu­ ments of gratitude to the Red Army. After the political changes in 1989, the dilapidated obelisk, with its red with the red paint already flaking off, was covered with sheets of bluish glass with the logo of Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń (the oldestt surviving Polish insurance company) attached. …”
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Relations between Russia and Lithuania in the contemporary Lithuanian historiography by Nerijus Šepetys

“… It is impossible to imagine the 20th century in the history of Russian and Lithuanian relations without the "Soviet power" brought on the bayonets of the Red Army. Lithuania successfully fended off the bayonets' thrust in 1918-1919; however, these bayonets subdued Lithuania with insidiousness and constraint in 1940 and by force and violence in 1945. …”
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Attempt to save Friendship, or What the Liberator of Prague Did in Czechoslovakia in May 1968 by I. A. Permyakov, S. G. Antonenko

“…The delegation of the Soviet military leaders had a symbolic, cultural significance and was intended to revive the memory of the events of 1945, of the victims of the Red Army and the brotherhood in arms of Soviet and Czechoslovak soldiers. …”
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The Anti-Hitler Coalition: From Enmity to Military Alliance — A Formula for Success by A. Yu. Borisov

“…They try to revive certain political myths, which have been debunked long ago, that the Soviet Union and the Nazi Germany bear equal responsibility for the outbreak of World War II, that the Red Army did not liberate Eastern Europe but ‘occupied’ it. …”
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‘LONG-SUFFERING LANDS’ BETWEEN POLAND AND BELARUS. POLITICS OF STATE HISTORY IN BELARUS ABOUT SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1939, WORLD WAR II, AND BUILDING THE NATION by Florin ANGHEL

“…On September 17th, 1939, the USSR invaded Poland; previously, Nazi Germany had started its hostilities against the country on September 1st, 1939. The Red Army occupied the Eastern territories of Poland, i.e., Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. …”
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The People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID) of the USSR in the City of Kuibyshev (1941-1943) by S. I. Chernyavsky

“…First of all, it was about the concentration of diplomatic activity in specific areas that could provide real assistance to the Red Army in obtaining the necessary weapons and strategic raw materials. …”
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Letecká báze na Českomoravské vysočině by Pavel Petr

“…The signing of the above-mentioned treaty with the Soviet Union and the visits of representatives of the Red Army Air Force to Czechoslovakia drew severe criticism from Nazi Germany, whose Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, led by Joseph Goebbels, organized campaigns proclaiming that large airports were being built for Soviet heavy bombers on our territory. …”
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The report of Chief of the General Staff of USSR marshal Alexander Jegorov about his visit in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia on 15th-26th of February, 1937 by Zenonas Butkus, Magnus llmjarv

“…The visit, however, also pursued certain propaganda goals; there was a striving to demonstrate the growing power of the Soviet State and especially that of the Red Army as well as a wish to demonstrate the concern about the security of not only their own country but also that of the neighbouring countries. …”
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