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** Weasels: Greek smugglers on the Black Sea during the Civil War.
** Snakes: the Latvian Riflemen.
* [[Former Regime Personnel]]: Some former regime officers joined the Red side (reason could be [[My Country, Right or Wrong]], political conviction or simple luck). Most were forced into service, often with their families taken hostage as incentive. They often had to prove their devotion to the Revolution, their unity with their underlings and generally whatever the unit council (soviet) wanted them to prove. A commissar who could override the commander's orders and had to execute his commander in case of (suspected) treason didn't make things easier. This trope is more specific to stories concerning the Red Navy than to stories concerning Red Army. A Determinator old-school Captain who endures this treatment by his crew and later leads them to the victory FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF THE REVOLUTION is almost a must in such stories.
* [[Gentleman and A Scholar]]: most of the intelligentsiya during the era. Also, [[Gentleman and A Scholar]] turned [[Officer and A Gentleman]] was the "hat" of the Alexeiev's elite regiment of the White army.
* [[Glorious Mother Russia]]: In non-Soviet media
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* [[Villain With Good Publicity]]: The Bolsheviks went out of their way to convince both ordinary Russians and the rest of the world that they were the good guys, taking advantages of new media like cinema and others to revolutionize propaganda and managing to maintain a pretty good image, despite most other leftist groups who were not their allies in Russia both hating them and being on their hit list, to say nothing of all the numerous atrocities they wilfuly commited. This was deliberate deception, while in the Politburo demanding the most brutal and callous tactics.
** Subverted with the Whites; most of their foreign backers didn't have a particularly high moral opinion of them, partly due to generations-old stereotypes about Russians as brutal savages, partly due to how the Whites actually behaved. They just thought that the Reds were much worse, though ''that'' was partly because of their anti-capitalist policies.
* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: The various revolutionary factions who formed the White Movement; the only thing that they agreed on was that [[Enemy Mine|they weren't Reds]]. The Reds were capable of [[Melee a Trois|allying with the most effective non-Red factions (such as the Black Army) to annihilate the Whites]], then [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|turned on the Blacks when the Whites were gone]].
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