Red Army
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The Russian Army, the Red Army we called it, was closing in on us from the east.
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But no matter what they told us, we knew, as everyone did by now, that the war was lost—that it was only a question of how quickly it would end, and of who would get to us first, the Red Army from the east, or the Allies from the west.
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We all hoped it might be the Allies—from the refugees we had heard such terrible things about the Red Army.
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That day at school no one talked about the Red Army or about the war.
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We heard too that the Red Army was closer now than we had thought, only a few miles on the other side of Dresden.
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