Red Army facts for kids
The Red Army was the army of the Bolsheviks led by Leon Trotsky in the Russian Civil War. Later it became the army of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was the name used mainly before and during World War II. After the war it was renamed as the Soviet Army, although many people still continued to call it the Red Army. Even nowadays some people still nickname the modern Russian Army as the Red Army.
Some later Communist organizations such as the Red Army Faction used the name, and anti-communists sometimes used the name for any left-wing group which they said was trying to promote communism and was paid for by the USSR.
Images for kids
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Red Guards unit of the Vulkan factory
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Leon Trotsky and Demyan Bedny in 1918
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Vladimir Lenin, Kliment Voroshilov, Leon Trotsky and soldiers, Petrograd, 1921
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Soviet officers, 1938
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Soviet tanks during the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, August 1939
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Red Army soldiers display a captured Finnish banner, March 1940
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Soviet gun crew in action during the Siege of Odessa, July 1941
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Salute to the Red Army at the Royal Albert Hall, London in February 1943
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Ivan Konev at the liberation of Prague by the Red Army in May 1945
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Marshals Zhukov and Rokossovsky with General Sokolovsky leave the Brandenburg Gate after being decorated by Field Marshal Montgomery
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Monument to the Red Army, Berlin
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Roza Shanina was a graduate of the Central Women's Sniper Training School credited with 59 confirmed kills.
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People in Saint Petersburg at «Immortal regiment», carrying portraits of their ancestors who fought in World War II.
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Benjamin Netanyahu and Red Army's Jewish veterans, Victory Day in Jerusalem, 9 May 2017
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Kursants (cadets) of the Red Army Artillery School in Chuhuyiv, Ukraine, 1933
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Red Army Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, who was executed during the Great Purge in June 1937. Here in 1920 wearing the budenovka
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See also
In Spanish: Ejército Rojo para niños
