The flag of the Communist International is red. All communists see the red flag as their symbol hence REDS. The association of red with the radical left dates back centuries. It's likely that it began with an association between red and sacrifice, conflict, revolution (bloodshed).
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No. Reds are standard.
Reds, orange, black, green, blues, yellows, and all colors between.
Yellows and reds, along with combinations in orange, brown, and yellowish greens.
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bolsheviks or reds
It was originally the Red Stockings, then the Reds, and, briefly, called the Red Legs in the 1950s (to escape the association with Communists, called Reds), then back to Reds again and remains the "Reds" today.
bolsheviks or reds
it is a throwback/ in homage to the "red" communists in Russia
That would be the Cincinnati Reds, who briefly called themselves the Redlegs, during the Communist "cold war" years of the '50s.
During the "Red Scare" the reds changed there name from the Reds to the Red Legs. But after this, they changed it back to the Reds.
As what it sounds to me, the Reds were the Bolshevik faction (Communists) in the Russian Civil War, and the Whites were the people that opposed them (Royalists, Republicans, the Church, etc.)
workers who were "Reds" or communists
The Reds and the Whites. The reds were the revolutionaries pro-communists, the whites were the supporters of the previous regime Tzarism.
Communist guerrilla forces in Camodia were called the Khmer Rouge.
Communists
The Bolsheviks are now called Communists, if they are still in business. The Bolsheviks changed their name to Communists in March 1918.