赤軍

せきぐん Red Army (Soviet Union, 1918-1946); Workers' and Peasants' Red Army

Why it means this

赤 (red) + 軍 (an army) — the Red Army; also 連合赤軍, the Japanese far-left militant group of the 1970s.

Breakdown

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