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  1. Former name of the army of the USSR. It
  2. developed from the Red Guards, volunteers who
  3. carried out the Bolshevik revolution, and
  4. received its name because it fought under the
  5. red flag. It was officially renamed the
  6. Soviet Army 1946. The Chinese revolutionary
  7. army was also called the Red Army.
  8.