Red Army

:This article is about the armed forces of the Soviet Union. See Red Army Faction for the German militant group; Japanese Red Army for the Japanese militant group; and People's Liberation Army for the Chinese Red Army.

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The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the "Workers' and Peasants' Red Army", (??????-???????????? ??????? ????? - Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. This organisation became the army of the Soviet Union after its establishment in 1922. "Red" refers to the blood shed by the working class in its struggle against capitalism. Although it was officially known as the Soviet Army from 1946, the term Red Army is commonly used in the West to refer to the Soviet military after that date, i.e., during the Cold War.

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Soviet Union: The Soviet Union, also called The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (?????????? ?????; tr.: Sovetsky Soyuz or (????) ; tr.: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik ), was an officially socialist state founded in 1922, centered on Russia, and dissolved in 1991. From 1945 until its d...

Red Army Faction: The Red Army Faction (in German: Rote Armee Fraktion; RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group, or the Baader-Meinhof Gang, which was one of the core groups within the RAF, was postwar Western Germany's most active left-wing terrorist organization. The RAF referred to its members as "urban guerr...

Japanese Red Army: The Japanese Red Army (日本赤軍, Nihon Sekigun) (JRA) is a terrorist group founded by Fusako Shigenobu in February 1971 after breaking away from the Japanese Communist League - Red Army Faction. The group had about 40 members at its height and once was one of the most feared ...

Red Army related Images and Photos (experimental)

Red Army Soldier Save Us!	The Red Army's Broom Will Sweep Away	The Red Army Theatre 1933	Long Live the 3-Million-Man Red Army c.1919
Soldiers of the Red Army on Manoeuvre Receive a Welcome and Rest at a Kolkhoze 1937	Have You Volunteered for the Red Army?	Red	Red
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