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And if you can't tell me a year, could you tell me if it was before or after 1920?

2007-03-04 08:14:16 · 6 answers · asked by T.J. 2 in Arts & Humanities History

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It was definitely before 1920, because of the Russian civil war which was between the Reds (communists) and the whites (the anti-Bolshevik forces)

I'm going to say around 1918, based on this:

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия, Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya; RKKA or usually simply the Red Army) were the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and that in 1922 became the army of the Soviet Union. The Red Army eventually grew to form the largest army in history from the 1940s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, although China's People's Liberation Army may have eclipsed the Red Army in size during some periods). "Red" refers to the blood shed by the working class in its struggle against capitalism. Although the Red Army officially became the Soviet Army in 1946, people in the West commonly use the term Red Army to refer also to the Soviet military after that date.

2007-03-04 08:17:37 · answer #1 · answered by crzywriter 5 · 0 0

It was before 1920. It was probably from the Commune of Paris in the 1870s.

2007-03-04 08:20:02 · answer #2 · answered by Monc 6 · 0 0

During the communist civil war in Russia, the two factions were White Russians (loyalists) and Red Russians (communists).

2007-03-04 08:18:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

While your looking that one up, why do the election day TV maps show Republican as "Red" and Democrats as "blue"? I would think it's the other way around. Why are commies red? Good question.

2007-03-04 08:19:08 · answer #4 · answered by bobweb 7 · 0 0

in school i did a project about the roaring 20's and i belive the red scare started in 1919

2007-03-04 08:17:03 · answer #5 · answered by geoff w 1 · 0 0

Their flag was bright red. Sometimes the simple answer is correct.

2007-03-04 08:21:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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