Red commonly means "beautiful" in Russian.
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The Term Russian Steamroller means the Imperial Russian Armed Forces (or simply the Imperial Army of Russia) back in 1914, when the Tsar Nicholas II was ruling the country.
The actual word is derived from the Russian word 'bolshe', which means more. Originally, the Bolsheviki (or Bolsheviks in English) were a radical faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP), a Marxist political party. The less radical faction of the RSDLP was called Mensheviki, derived from the word 'menshe', less. The Bolsheviks, of course, became the Russian Communist Party (the soviet union). The word "soviet" means "council" in Russian.
Living at the borders, historically they played a big role in expansion. But they fought against the Russian revolution with the white army, lost, were repressed and many had to immigrate.
White simply means "white." It originated as a nickname for a person with white hair or a pale complexion.
The White army was the counter-revolutionary forces that invaded Russia, leading to the Civil War of 1980 to 1920. The White army was made up of United States, Japanese, French, and British armies, and their Russian conscripts.