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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Soviet Union - Red Army Faction - Japanese Red Army - People's Liberation 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.

Related Topics:
Russian - Bolsheviks - Russian Civil War - 1918 - Soviet Union - 1922 - Red - 1946 - Cold War

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