RED ARMY REDUCTION
“SENIOR AGE” GROUPS
DEMOBILISATION ORDER (11 a.m.) MOSCOW, March 16. A Supreme Soviet decree announces that the demobilisation of all the remaniing “senior age” groups from the Soviet Army will be completed by the end of March. The Army would then consist mainly of two age groups, namely, those born in 1926 and 1927. The Associated Press says this is apparently the army’s planned peacetime strength.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22588, 17 March 1948, Page 5
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69RED ARMY REDUCTION Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22588, 17 March 1948, Page 5
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