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While the Russian army was being taken apart, “it became apparent that the rag-tag Red Guard units and elements of the imperial army who had gone over the side of the Bolsheviks were quite inadequate to the task of defending the new government against external foes.” http://www.soviethistory.org/index.php?page=subject&SubjectID=1917army&Year=1917