Red Army

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The Red Army was the Soviet Union’s land-based military force, renowned for its pivotal role in defeating Nazi Germany during World War II and shaping the outcome of the Eastern Front.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf army
military organization
allegiance Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Bolshevik Party

Soviet government
conflict Eastern Front
surface form: Eastern Front of World War II

Polish–Soviet War
Russian Civil War
Winter War
World War II
country Soviet Union
dissolved 1946
foundedBy Vladimir Lenin
hasAlternativeName RKKA
Red Army
surface form: Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army
hasBranch airborne troops
armored forces
artillery
engineer troops
infantry
signal troops
headquartersLocation Moscow
ideology Marxism–Leninism
communism
inception 1918
keyFigure Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Georgy Zhukov
Ivan Konev
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Leon Trotsky
Mikhail Frunze
languageOfCommand Russian
namedInLanguage Russian
notableEvent Great Purge
surface form: Great Purge of the officer corps
notableFor Battle of Berlin
Battle of Kursk
Battle of Stalingrad
defeat of Nazi Germany
operatedBy Soviet Union
partOf Soviet armed forces
surface form: Soviet Armed Forces
positionHeldBy Leon Trotsky
surface form: Leon Trotsky as People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs
reorganizedAs Soviet armed forces
surface form: Soviet Army
roleInHistory major component of Allied victory in World War II
shaped postwar Eastern Europe
usedColor red
usedDoctrine combined arms warfare
deep operation
usedSymbol hammer and sickle
red star

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Battle of Halbe combatant Red Army
T-44 medium tank usedBy Red Army
this entity surface form: Soviet Army
PPD-40 usedBy Red Army
PPS-43 usedBy Red Army
Papasha usedBy Red Army
this entity surface form: Soviet soldiers
M10 tank destroyer usedBy Red Army
this entity surface form: Soviet Red Army
KV tank family usedBy Red Army
IS-1 usedBy Red Army
Bryansk sector involvedForce Red Army
Lev Beniov associatedWith Red Army
4th Guards Army partOf Red Army
Baltic Front partOf Red Army
27th Army partOf Red Army
52nd Army partOf Red Army
Govorov militaryBranch Red Army
subject surface form: Leonid Govorov
41st Army partOf Red Army
Western Front partOf Red Army
subject surface form: Western Front (Soviet formation)
6th Guards Tank Army partOf Red Army
1st Guards Army partOf Red Army
Soviet 51st Army partOf Red Army
3rd Army partOf Red Army
Polotsk offensive belligerent Red Army
13th Army partOf Red Army
Dmitry Krylov militaryBranch Red Army
Kurland Kessel belligerent Red Army
Battle of Ossów belligerent Red Army
Aleksei Rodin militaryBranch Red Army
Soviet 52nd Army partOf Red Army
Mikhail Khozin militaryBranch Red Army
Musa Jalil militaryBranch Red Army
28th Soviet Army partOf Red Army