Composition: Pokrass, Samuel Yakovlevich (Покрасс, Самуил Яковлевич) Lyrics: Grigoriev, Pavel Grigorievich (Григорьев, Павел Григорьевич) The Red Army is the Strongest, popularly known as "White Army, Black Baron", is a marching song written by Pavel Grigorevich Gorinshtejn (1895–1961, a.k.a. Pavel Gorin, Pavel Grigorev) and composed by Samuil Pokrass (1897–1939). Written in 1920, during the Russian Civil War, the song was meant as a combat anthem for the Red Army.