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Bookmark or Share- Soviet Armed Forces - WikipediaThe Soviet Armed Forces, [a] also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, [b] the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
- The Red Army - Alpha HistoryRed Army uniforms from the Civil War period. The Red Army was the military force of the Soviet regime. Formed at the beginning of 1918, it was called into action to defend the new regime during the Russian Civil War.
- Red Army | Facts, History, & Size | BritannicaRed Army, Soviet army created by the Communist government after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Political advisers called commissars were attached to all army units to watch over the reliability of officers and to carry out political propaganda among the troops.
- The Red Army: 10 Facts About the Soviet Armed ForcesEstablished in January 1918 by the Bolsheviks as the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, it rivalled what was collectively known as the White Army during the Russian Civil War. During World War Two it constituted the largest of the Allied land forces in Europe, and it was the Red Army which captured the Nazi capital, Berlin, in 1945.
- Red Army - WikipediaThe Red Army began the Soviet invasion of Manchuria on 9 August 1945 (three days after the first atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the same day the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, while also being exact three months after the surrender of Germany).
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