Red Army

Meanings

1. Name of the Soviet army in the period 1918–1946.
2. The Soviet Armed Forces, including those of 1947–1991.
3. The Chinese Red Army.
4. The Russian Armed Forces, especially the Ground Forces component.

Etymology

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.