They didn't. They are the same thing.
The Red Army was a nickname for the Soviet Army.
The Red Army was a nickname for the Soviet Army.
Soviet
Lenin and Stalin built the Soviet Red Army; Mao built the Red Chinese Army.
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army - or simply The Red ArmyBeginning in February 1946 and until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, its official name was "Soviet Army".
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Yes it was, the Red Army was the official army of the entire Soviet Union. Ukraine, was part of the Soviet Union was the Ukrainian SSR, so Ukraine's army was the Red Army. Same with Belarus (Belorussian SSR), Lithuania (Lithuanian SSR) and all those former Soviet states.
The "Red" in Red Army refers to the blood spilled by its members in armed conflict against Capitalism. The full name of the Red Army was the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA), which was dropped after WWII and replaced with simply "the Soviet Army."
The Soviet Union
Stalin, was the leader of the Soviet Union and responsible for the Red Army's losses during the early stages of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. He also took part, and executed thousands of Red Army officers, known as the Great Purge of the Red Army.
Mainly, the European countries that were once part of the Soviet Union. Meaning Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan (Asia), Lithuania and Latvia. The Red Army was also Poland's army for a short time before independance from the Soviet Bloc.