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To: Mike Darancette

Okay, I get your point. However, there really was no Red Army in existence in 1917/1918, so I assumed you were referring to WWII, when it was very much in existence.


73 posted on 08/06/2007 8:38:32 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.)
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To: Sherman Logan
Okay, I get your point. However, there really was no Red Army in existence in 1917/1918, so I assumed you were referring to WWII, when it was very much in existence.

The Red Army (Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия, Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya; RKKA, full translation Workers' and Peasants' Red Army) were the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 (Jan. 28) and that, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union. -Wikipedia

These were the forces led by Leon Trotsky against the White forces. Had Germany not been defeated in 1918 they would have been in Trotsky's rear as he tried to defeat the White forces.

76 posted on 08/06/2007 10:37:17 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Democrat Happens!)
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