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LeningradThe Political DepartmentÁ€™s best efforts, though, could not persuade them to initiate Á€˜socialist competitionsÁ€™ with other units, or to adopt military formalities. Á€˜Here are two examplesÁ€™, lamented one politruk, from the Zhdanovsky and Kirovsky regiments. He used to be an ordinary worker and is now an officer. In his unit he has two of his former foremen Á€” and of course, itÁ€™s difficult to drop the [familiar] Sasha, Vanya, Petya. Or take the following incident. A commander gives an order and says Á€˜Repeat it.Á€™ And his subordinate replies Á€˜Sasha, why do I have to repeat it, do you think IÁ€™m stupid?Á€™. . We have to force our commanders to be stricter.17 Volunteerism, the Party bosses worried, might also mask treachery. Thirteen ethnic German and Estonian Á€˜foreignersÁ€™ were discovered to have signed up, as had an ex-Trotskyite, a White Finn, and several Spanish and Austrian Communists. All were dismissed from the opolcheniye, and their details passed to the NKVD.18 More practically, what were by 7 July 110,000 volunteers19 had to be transferred to barracks, equipped and taught to fight ...» |
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