AMAZONS TO BE DISBANDED
OF LITTLE MILITARY VALUE “ PROPER PLAGE IN THE NOISE" ’res* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright HELSINGFORS, April 23. (Received April 24, at 10 a.m.) The Defence Commissar (M. Voroshiloff) has ordered the disbandment of the women’s Amazon regiments, as they are of little military value and only of use in spectacular parades. Their proper place, he says, is in the home rearing children and darning '■ocks.
Another criticism was that some omen officers led lives unworthy of be Russian uniform.
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Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 15
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82AMAZONS TO BE DISBANDED Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 15
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