For the Soviet Union!

In September 1917, Vladimir Lenin wrote: "There is only one way to prevent the restoration of the police, and that is to create a people's militia and to fuse it with the army (the standing army to be replaced by the arming of the entire people)."At the time, the Imperial Russian Army had started to collapse. Approximately 23% (about 19 million) of the male population of the Russian Empire were mobilized; however most of them were not equipped with any weapons and had support roles such as maintaining the lines of communication and the base areas. At the war's start, the Red Army consisted of 299 infantry regiments. And now it has been reborn as a steam group of the bravest warriors known to man...