Red Army
Soviet army and air force from 1918 to 1946
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The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by Leon Trotsky to oppose the military forces of the new nation's adversaries during the Russian Civil War, especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army. In February 1946, the Red Army was renamed the "Soviet Army" – which in turn became the Russian Army on 7 May 1992, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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