Red Army
About Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often referred by its shortened name as the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars to oppose the military forces of the new nation's adversaries during the Russian Civil War, especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army. In February 1946, the Red Army was renamed the "Soviet Army". Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was split between the post-Soviet states, with its bulk becoming the Russian Ground Forces, commonly considered to be the successor of the Soviet Army.
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He was a lifelong Marxist, and him and his wife used to hold these art sales to raise money for the Red Army — and Barbara Hepworth used to sell stuff with him.
from No Such Thing As Deckchair Wrestling, 2022-11-04 at 00:49:18 · read transcript
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My fact this week is that the original Little Mermaid production was almost delayed because all of their underwater bubbles got caught up in the Tiananmen Square incident. Tell me, Dan, what exactly was the Tiananmen Square incident? for all of our global listeners. It was a sojourn by the Red Army. This is quite a surprising fact that The Little Mermaid, which was the last entirely hand-drawn and hand-coloured movie that Disney was producing, decided that rather than photocopying drawings of underwater bubbles, they would have each individual bubble, millions of them, drawn by hand.
No Such Thing As Bin Day On A Nuclear Submarine, 2025-04-24 · listen
Tell me, Dan, what exactly was the Tiananmen Square incident? For all of our global listeners? It was a sojourn by the Red Army. This is quite a surprising fact that The Little Mermaid, which was the last entirely hand-drawn and hand-coloured movie that Disney was producing, decided that rather than photocopying drawings of underwater bubbles, they would have each individual bubble, millions of them, drawn by hand. They couldn't do that on their own so they farmed that out to a company that was called Pacific Rim in China.
580: No Such Thing As Bin Day On A Nuclear Submarine, 2025-04-24 · listen
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