The military of the USSR. It underwent some changes during the history of the Soviet Union. If you're looking for an article about their space program, you're in the wrong place. Largely a conscript force, unlike the USA's more volunteer force, or at at least apart from exceptions when America needed more men during the KoreanWar and the Vietnam War (The US still technically has conscription, but it is so vestigial as to be nearly nonexistant), though much of western Europe kept up conscription programs, too. The Soviet military pretty much ran around being able to somehow rope enough conscripts into reenlisting so as to have a core of veterans and professionals who could be bolstered by citizen soldiers if the need arose. Pretty much everything about Soviet armed forces was designed aroun