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* [[I Have Your Wife]]: the Bolsheviks made most former Imperial officers (that's the ones who weren't in the White army) work for them by taking their families hostage.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: The Red Army had "commanders", not officers. "Officer" was a loaded word implying nobility and conviction to the Tsarist patriotic cause.
**Ironically the word ''officer'' implies that said person is holding an ''office''(I.E. a functional authority entrusted by someone else, not a position he owns by right)whereas ''commander'' implies that he is ''commanding'', not necessarily that someone is ordering him to command(I.E. a Czar is a commander because he commands but definitely not an officer because he owns his throne rather then having it entrusted to him). Hence officer is actually the more egalitarian word from the etymological point of view.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters|Loads And Loads Of Factions]]: Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, other revolutionary leftists, anarchists, democrats, monarchists, ethnic nationalists, foreign inteventionists from the Allied and Central Powers, those just trying to fight their way out... Did I omit someone?
** The Greens, local militias attempting to protect their villages from the marauding forces of both sides, along with bandits.
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