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Toy soldiers and real battles: 23rd February - Red Army Day

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

23rd February - Red Army Day

Russia first celebrated this day in 1922 as the fourth anniversary of the Red Army. However, Russian leader Vladimir Lenin signed a decree for the creation of a Bolshevik Army on a different date (January 15, 1918). In 1938, Soviet history books started claiming that the Red Army won an important victory over German invaders on February 23, 1918, but no independent sources supported this claim.

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