Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a furtive fugitive whose name was reported to be Gulishvili, whose rank was said to be lieutenant general in the Soviet Army and whose job was rumored to be chief of intelligence for the Russian zone of Austria, bobbed up in Paris. Last week North American Newspaper Alliance reported that Lieut. General Gulishvili was really Soviet General Chaparidze, and published his arresting account of Russia's military plans. Excerpts...
...divisions of the Red Army's General Staff (Bureau No. 1, administration and organization, and No. 2, mobilization) anticipate a Russian force of 120 divisions by Jan. 1, 1948, plus 30 special divisions of twice the usual size located in Russian occupation areas. That will give the Soviet Union a peacetime army...
...home" divisions are already being grouped in six armies whose locations suggest the fronts on which Soviet Russia expects to have to fight in the event of another war: North army, based on Leningrad; Western army, based on Minsk; Southern army, based on Odessa; Caucasian army, based on Tiflis; Turkestan army, based on Tashkent and Frunze; Far Eastern army, based on Chita and Vladivostok. The armies are commanded as follows: Northern, Marshal Klimenti E. Voroshilov; Western, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky; Southern, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov; Caucasian, Marshal Ivan Bagramian; Turkestan, Marshal Semion K. Timoshenko; Far Eastern, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky. Eight...
...fundamental tenets of the Soviet Army is the doctrine of unified warfare (Edinaia Voienna ia Doktrina): a principle according to which all warfare must be transformed into action in the rear by all the means, tactical and strategic, at the disposition of the Red Army. Three-dimensional warfare offers new scope for this principle. Large armies can be landed by air in the farthest reaches of the enemy's rear lines; such forces, in addition to destroying vital industrial centers and occupying strategic points, would also constitute a kernel for civil...
First A-Bomb Plants. The tense problem of the atomic bomb is naturally bothering the Soviet high command. Russia has the knowledge-but she has not yet brought manufacture of the bomb to an industrial level. Already, however, the Soviet Union has begun to build the first three plants for the production of A-bombs. They are in eastern Siberia and will be ready to begin turning out bombs in some 12 to 18 months...