The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army,[a] often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian SFSR from 1918 to 1922 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1946.
History
From 1933 to 1940, the Red Army's budget grew from 1.5 billion rubles to 57 billion in preparation for an invasion by Nazi Germany, which eventually came on 22 June 1941. The size of the army increased by 150% between 1939 and 1941.[1]
Great Patriotic War
The Soviet Union produced 16,000 airplanes in 1941, the majority of them after the invasion had begun.[1] In 1942, the Soviet Union produced 23,000 tanks, 25,000 airplanes, and 34,000 heavy guns.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия (РККА)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "2nd World War". The Espresso Stalinist. Archived from the original on 2022-05-09. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ↑ Francis Randall (1965). Stalin’s Russia (p. 281). New York City: Free Press.