SOVIET DEFENCE PLANS
TRAINING OF CIVILIANS Russia’s Society for Chemical War Defence, a civilian unit with a membership of 10,000,000, is being reorganised. The move is part of the work of the Commissar for War, M. Voroshiloff, to speed up the military training of civilians against an emergency. After the execution df General Edieman, the former chief of the society, its council was dissolved, but special councils are now being formed to stimulate the training of many civilian auxiliaries of the regular army. Among the activities being fostered are the formation of aero clubs, shooting clubs and anti-aircraft and chemical warfare groups. Red Army officers will soon undergo a course of intensified "political training designed to keep enemies of the State out of the army.” They will be lectured regularly on spying end wrecking activities, and on means of detecting agents of foreign secret services .
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20932, 11 January 1938, Page 9
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145SOVIET DEFENCE PLANS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20932, 11 January 1938, Page 9
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