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 | | The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the "Workers' and Peasants' Red Army", (Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. |
 | | Although it was officially known as the Soviet Army from 1946, the term Red Army is commonly used in the West to refer to the Soviet military after that date, i.e., during the Cold War. |
 | | During the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army drafting helped bring the ranks up to a high point of about 20 million at the end of 1941, of which an estimated 7 million died by the end of the war, though some cite this number to be as high as 10 million. |
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