Red Army

Proper noun

the Red Army

1. (historical) Name of the Soviet army in the period 1918–1946.
2. (historical, informal) The Soviet Armed Forces, including those of 1947–1991.
3. (historical) The Chinese Red Army.
   • If Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could order his troops into his neighbor with impunity, surely China’s President Xi Jinping might finally decide to recover Taiwan, the island province that has remained staunchly independent ever since Mao Zedong’s Red Army finished his conquest of the mainland...2022 August 30, Donald Kirk, “Could China invade South Korea after Taiwan?”, in The Hill, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2022
4. (informal) The Russian Armed Forces, especially the Ground Forces component.