Red Army

Definitions

1. Name of the Soviet army in the period 1918–1946.
   historical
2. The Soviet Armed Forces, including those of 1947–1991.
   historical, informal
3. The Chinese Red Army.
   historical
4. The Russian Armed Forces, especially the Ground Forces component.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“If Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could order⟳ his troops into his neighbor with impunity, surely China’s President Xi Jinping might finally decide⟳ to recover⟳ Taiwan, the island province that has remained staunchly independent ever since Mao Zedong’s Red Army finished his conquest of the mainland in 1949.”

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