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The Red Army
Posted by:
Comrade Whisky
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Date: May 19, 2009 02:56PM
Does Russians called The Red Army "The Red Army", or do they call it something else? Is "The Red Army" just what the English call it, in the same way that Germans refer to Germany as Deutschland? If so...what do Russians call The Red Army?
Re: The Red Army
Posted by:
Judge Crater
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Date: May 19, 2009 04:28PM
Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия, Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya; RKKA, full translation the Workers'-Peasants' Red Army)
Re: The Red Army
Posted by:
britdrnva
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Date: May 19, 2009 04:35PM
During Soviet times it was called the "red army" until ~<1950's = Worker's Peasants Red Army or in Russian (RKKA - Rabochye Krectyanskaya Krahsnaya Armeeyah). During the Cold War they were officially named - the Soviet Army (CA - Sovietskaya Armeeyah).