File Photo: Ukrainian “Red Baret” soldiers with Kalashnikov automatic assault rifles in November of 1991, Military base north of Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine.

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File Photo: Ukrainian “Red Baret” soldiers with Kalashnikov automatic assault rifles in November of 1991, Military base north of Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine. Less than two months before the end of the Soviet Union, Young Ukrainian Red Baret soldiers pose for a portrait at a Red Army base in the northern Ukraine. The soldiers are wearing Soviet Red Army uniforms with traditional military issued Kalashnikov combat rifles. According to military scholars, the Ukraine inherited one of the most powerful force group in Europe with the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991.

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Size: 3558px × 5000px
Location: Military Base, north of Kyiv, Ukraine
Photo credit: © Chuck Nacke / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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