Labor Army

The notion of the Labor army (трудовая армия, трудармия) was introduced in Soviet Russia during 1920. Initially the term was applied to regiments of Red Army transferred from military activity to labor activity, such as logging, coal mining, firewood stocking, etc.

Read more about Labor Army:  Russian Civil War, World War II, Later Soviet Union

Famous quotes containing the words labor and/or army:

    “His Labor is a Chant—
    His Idleness—a Tune—
    Oh, for a Bee’s experience
    Of Clovers, and of Noon!”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “I’m the boss, you’re an idiot. You’re the boss, I’m an idiot.”
    —Russian army saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)