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Red Army
[see red a. 9 b.]
a. The name given to the Russian Bolshevik army and later to that of the Soviet Union.
1918Manch. Guardian 13 Dec. 7/4 The Bolshevik Government..is engaged in creating a Red Army of over a million men. 1935N. Mitchison We have been Warned ii. 172 In Moscow..on May Day there are great processions..and marching by the Red Army. 1943J. B. Priestley Daylight on Saturday viii. 51 The Red Army is still showing what a workers' republic can do. 1976‘M. Barak’ Secret List H. Roehm viii. 81 After the Revolution he remained an officer in the Red Army. 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. (Record) 15/3 At last, in January 1944 the Red Army advance made it safe for the Kranzbergs and little Miriam to leave their hiding place. 1980M. Bar-Zohar Deadly Document x. 164 The band chimed in with..the Red Army song.
b. Adopted as the name of the army in other, esp. communist, countries.
1926Encycl. Brit. II. 393/1 The [Hungarian] Red Army was organised, primarily to ensure the maintenance of the dictatorship. 1934tr. Mao Tse-Tung's Red China 21 The Chinese Soviets and their Red Army have grown out of the development of the agrarian revolution, which liberates the masses of the peasants from oppression and exploitation. 1965M. Michael tr. J. Myrdal's Report from Chinese Village i. 4 The peasants of northern Shensi..set up their own soviet republic and formed their own Red Army. 1974tr. Sniečkus's Soviet Lithuania 20 Many joined the ranks of the Lithuanian Red Army. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Feb. 163/2 Horthy came to power in the winter of 1919–20..after Romania's military victory over the Hungarian Red Army. 1977Time 21 Mar. 26/3 The Communists' Red Army had just completed its epic Long March from the Southeast to its new headquarters at Yenan in remote northern Shensi province.
c. The name of a left-wing extremist terrorist organization in Japan.
1972Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 24 June 30/1 The Red Army, an extremist terrorist group in Japan, sponsored and trained by the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. 1974Times 7 Feb. 5/1 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Red Army of Japan in a statement issued yesterday sought to justify the attack on the Singapore oil storage tanks—where it is claimed 15 tanks were blown up. 1976K. Benton Single Monstrous Act iii. 19 The Libyans..seem to have dished out money to every revolutionary group there is, from the Japanese Red Army to the Provos.
d. Red Army Faction, the name of a terrorist organization of West Germany.
1977Time 19 Sept. 8/3 The initials represent the now familiar Red Army Faction, which had murdered both Buback and Ponto. 1979R. Perry Bishop's Pawn ix. 174 The terrorists..were definitely operating under the Red Army Faction umbrella. |