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The
Red Army
was the army of the
Bolsheviks
that was led by
Leon Trotsky
during the
Russian Civil War
. It later became the army of the
Soviet Union
. The name used mainly before and during
World War II
. After the war, it was renamed as the Soviet Army, but many people continued to call it the Red Army. Even now, some people still nickname the modern Russian Army as the Red Army.
Some later
communist
organizations such as the
Red Army Faction
used the name, and
anti-communists
sometimes used the name for any
left-wing
group that they said was trying to promote communism and was paid for by the Soviets.