Red Army

Red Army flag

Common parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest at the end of the Invasion of Poland. At the center Major General Heinz Guderian and Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein, 1939

The Red Army was the name of the army of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was the name used mainly during World War II.

People who hated communists used the name Red Army to describe any left wing group which they said was trying to promote communism and was paid for by the USSR.