RKKA

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army military organization

RKKA is the Russian abbreviation for the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the Soviet Union's military force from the Russian Civil War through World War II.

Statements (72)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	army → military organization →
abbreviationLanguage	Russian →
allegiance	Bolshevik government → Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic → Union of Soviet Socialist Republics →
branch	air forces → armored forces → artillery → cavalry → engineer troops → infantry → signal troops →
commanderInChief	Joseph Stalin → Vladimir Lenin →
conflict	Great Patriotic War → Polish–Soviet War → Russian Civil War → Soviet–Japanese border conflicts → Winter War → World War II →
country	Soviet Union →
doctrine	deep operation →
equipment	KV-1 heavy tank → Katyusha rocket launcher → Mosin–Nagant rifle → PPSh-41 submachine gun → SVT-40 rifle → T-34 medium tank →
foundedBy	Bolsheviks →
fullName	Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya → Workers' and Peasants' Red Army →
garrisonCountry	Soviet Union →
ideology	communism →
languageOfCommand	Russian →
motto	For Stalin! → For the Motherland! →
nativeLanguage	Russian →
notableBattle	Battle of Berlin → Battle of Kursk → Battle of Moscow → Battle of Stalingrad → Brusilov-style offensives in Russian Civil War → Siege of Leningrad → Vistula–Oder Offensive →
notableCommander	Aleksandr Vasilevsky → Georgy Zhukov → Ivan Konev → Kliment Voroshilov → Konstantin Rokossovsky → Leon Trotsky → Mikhail Tukhachevsky → Semyon Budyonny → Semyon Timoshenko →
notableEvent	military purges of the late 1930s →
opponent	Axis powers → Finland → Imperial Japan → Nazi Germany → Second Polish Republic → White movement →
partOf	Armed Forces of the Soviet Union →
politicalControl	Communist Party of the Soviet Union →
politicalOrgan	political commissar system →
precededBy	Imperial Russian Army →
role	land forces of the Soviet Union →
serviceType	conscription-based mass army →
shortName	Red Army →
symbol	hammer and sickle → red star →
uniformColor	khaki →
usedConscription	yes →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Red Army →	hasAlternativeName