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Lina20 [59]
3 years ago
12

During World War I the Russian army was

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Aleonysh [2.5K]3 years ago
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WWI -- Russia. Russia entered the first world war with the largest army in the world, standing at 1,400,000 soldiers; when fully mobilized the Russian army expanded to over 5,000,000 soldiers (though at the outset of war Russia could not arm all its soldiers, having a supply of 4.6 million rifles).

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