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Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (born 1879)

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Leon Trotsky

Soviet politician and revolutionary (1879–1940)

Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician and political theorist. He was a key figure in the 1905 Revolution, October Revolution of 1917, Russian Civil War, and the establishment of the Soviet Union, from which he was…
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Red Army

Soviet army and air force from 1918 to 1946

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars to oppose the military…
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