The Red Army

The "Red Army" was the common name of the National Military Forces, since1918 to 1946. We can see that the name refers to the color red, that for the workers' symbolized the blood shed in the struggle against oppression.

This army was inmediatly found after the Russian revolution in 1917,but it's consider that the army was founded on February 23 of 1918 when the sovietic republic announced the first victory of the Red Army towards the germans of Russia's first world war

Trotsky founded the Red Army with an initial Red Guard organization, and a core soldiery of Red Guard militiamen and Chekist secret policemen. In January 1918, Sovnarkom decided that the Worker-Peasant Red Army had to consist of volunteers from “the most class conscious and organized elements of the toiling masses” That was the end of the Red Guards and the creation of the Red Army.

Due to the fact that The Red Army was constructed of mainly peasants, rather than receiving payment in the currency of the time, the families of those who served in the Red Army were guaranteed rations and assistance with farm work.

Those peasants who remained at home were yearning to join the army, men along with some woman flooded the recruitment centres and if they were turned away they would collect scrap metal and prepared care packages. In some cases the money they earned would be put towards tanks to send to army.

Soon afterward he established the GRU (military intelligence) to provide political and military intelligence to Red Army commanders.The loyalty of the political, ethnic, and national varieties of men composing the Red Army was enforced by political commissars attached at the brigade and regiment levels, and to spy on subordinate commanders, for political incorrectness.

The Red Army used special regiments for ethnic minorities, like the Dungan Cavalry Regiment commanded by the Dungan Magaza Masanchi.