Possible Clues:

• Left soldiers deployed initially away from the front? Gosh!
• Bolshevik fighting force
• Bloody Mary intoxicated foreign troops
• May order reforms, dismissing old Cold War divisions?
• -- Faction, another name for the Baader-Meinhof Gang
• Room cut into ready-assembled large fighting machine
• Revolutionary force concerning mardy bum
• Old Russian force
• Revolutionary fighters back to embrace democrat -- gosh!
• Soviet military force ... or two ants