Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War ...
As Soviet forces pushed back Nazi troops in Europe in 1944 and 1945, they liberated a number of death camps, including Majdanek, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrück. THE FRONT ...
On Jan. 27, 1945, during World War II, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.