#History • White Army, Black Baron, also known as The Red Army Is The Strongest, is a marching song written by Pavel Grigorevich Gorinshtejn (1895–1961) and composed by Samuil Pokrass (1897–1939) in 1920, during the Russian Civil War. The immediate context of the song is the final Crimean offensive in the Russian Civil War by Pyotr Wrangel's troops in July 1920. The second verse refers to the call to a final effort in the Crimea published by the Revolutionary Military Council on 10 July. While t