REDARMY

Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was the national military of the Soviet Union until 1946. Began as Soviet Russia's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922 and the Red Cossacks Army of the Ukrainian Republic, it grew into one of the largest and most powerful armies in military history by the 1940s.

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