Soviet Ground Forces (TheodoresTomfooleries)

Ground Forces of the USSR
Сухопутные войска СССР
Emblem of the Soviet Ground Forces
Founded	February 25, 1946 (1946-02-25)
Country	Soviet Union
Type	Army
Role	Land warfare
Size	3,670,032 active (2020)
Nickname(s)	"Red Army"
Motto(s)	"За нашу Советскую Родину!" "Za nashu Sovetskuyu Rodinu!" "For our Soviet motherland!"
Colors	Red and yellow
March	Invincible and Legendary
Commanders
Commander-in-Chief	Army General Davyd Loboda
Insignia
Flag
Emblem of the Soviet Ground Forces

The Ground Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Ground Forces; Ground Forces of the USSR) (Russian: Сухопутные войска СССР, romanized: Sukhoputnye Voyska SSSR), also known as the Soviet Army and popularly as the Red Army, are the main land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces.

Originally known as the the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army before 1946, the Soviet Ground Forces constitute the world's largest land warfare service branch by personnel count in the world, with a reported 3.67 million people actively serving in the army in 2020, and the second-largest land warfare service branch by budget. The Soviet Ground Forces constitute the Soviet Army, also consisting of the Air Defence Forces, the Air Forces, and the Strategic Rocket Forces.