Topic - Red Army

; RKKA (Workers’–Peasants’ Red Army) was started out as the Soviet Union’s revolutionary militia beginning in the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history. - Source: Wikipedia

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