White Army

English

Etymology

Calque of Russian Белая армия (Belaja armija). White was the traditional color of the antirevolutionary movement in some countries, adopted as a symbolic name by the Russian movement.

Proper noun

the White Army

  1. (historical, military) a collation of anti-Bolshevik armed groups that fought the Red Army during the Russian Civil War
    Coordinate terms: Red Army, green army

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