Penal battalions were given suicidal tasks. By the end of the war the Soviet Army numbered more than 11 million officers and men. In 1946 the word "red" was removed from the name of the armed forces.

South of Rostov (where, Stockholm reported, the Russians had captured Bataisk, 10 miles away), red army men stormed a number of enemy defense points and broke into a railroad station, capturing a ...

the Army, now reduced to less than ,000 men, was reorganized. The Front-line Committee decided to move the troops to Jiangxi Province to join the Red Army forces in the Central Revolutionary Base ...