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Krasnaya Square

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Krasnaya Square
Krasnaya Square
Krasnaya Square
Krasnaya Square
Krasnaya Square
Krasnaya Square
Krasnaya Square
Krasnaya Square
Krasnaya Square
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Krasnaya Ploshchad', Kursk, Kursk Oblast, Russia

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army 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 . The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations of their adversaries during the Russian Civil War. Beginning in February 1946, the Red Army, along with the Soviet Navy, embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces; taking the official name of Soviet Army, until its dissolution in December 1991. The Red Army is credited as being the decisive land force in the Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, and its invasion of Manchuria contributed heavily to the ultimate unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan. During operations on the Eastern Front, it accounted for 75–80% of casualties the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS suffered during the war and ultimately captured the Nazi German capital, Berlin.
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