What country's army was commonly called the Red Army?
Red Army Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (, "Raboče-krestjjanskaja Krasnaja armija (RKKA)"), frequently shortened to Red Army (, "Krasnaja armija (KA)"; also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch – Red Horde, Army of Work) was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The army was established immediately after the 1917 October Revolution (Red October or Bolshevik Revolution). The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations (especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army) of their adversaries during the
Chinese Red Army Chinese Red Army The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (), renamed Chinese People's Red Army () in 1936, commonly known as the Chinese Red Army, or simply the Red Army (), was the armed forces of the Communist Party of China from 1928 to 1937. They were incorporated into the National Revolutionary Army as part of the Second United Front with the Kuomintang to fight against the Japanese when the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937. In the later stage of the Chinese Civil War, they were eventually renamed as the People's Liberation Army. The Chinese Workers' and