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Red Army

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Etymology

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Calque of Russian Красная а́рмия (Krasnaja ármija). The red was the traditional color of the communist movement which was the official ideology of the Soviets at the period.

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the Red Army

  2. (historical, military) Name of the Soviet army in the period 1918–1946.
    Coordinate terms: White Army, green army
  4. (historical, informal, military) The Soviet Armed Forces, including those of 1947–1991.
  5. (historical, military) The Chinese Red Army.
    • 2022 August 30, Donald Kirk, “Could China invade South Korea after Taiwan?”, in The Hill‎[1], archived from the original on 30 August 2022‎[2]:
      If Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could order his troops into his neighbor with impunity, surely China’s President Xi Jinping might finally decide to recover Taiwan, the island province that has remained staunchly independent ever since Mao Zedong’s Red Army finished his conquest of the mainland in 1949.
  6. (informal, military) The Russian Armed Forces, especially the Ground Forces component.

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