Regular soldier in many cases looked very much like the one im wearing. The difference being, they would have the raised collar and they would have epaulets. Trotsky took the red army and said, i want to make it a working mans army. When you go to work, you dont wear a suit that has a raised collar and epaulets. You have a suit that has a laydown collar. As we saw on the front of that book, that was the early war uniform. It was a simple smock. The Rank Insignia were on the collar. As the war progressed, there was more and more reference to the past, to the heroics of the military achievement under the czars. So, a lot of the changes were made to kind of encourage that, to reinforce that. So, later on during the war, the uniform was now changed back to, in a sense, the czaristtype looking uniform. Again, the medals came back. Medals were prolific. The guard medals, the idea that there were famous czarist units. Now we were going to have elite Red Army Units to raise morale and encourag
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