Oldal 2 [2]
X.A1l2. Dec-mber 52e
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guess that he might be the conning minster of War.
hruska hes made his success in reorganizing fully the corps
of political commissars, wi ich up to the beginning of this year, haa
not been as good as desired in Moscow. #or achieving this, hruska
had discovered a simple, brick. he obtained from moscow that a large
number of officers of thé Red Army, Czechs from Wolhynia, be trans¬
ferred into the CzZecho-Slovak Army and assigned there to political
commissar dutiese By doing this, he was abl to secure a large
number of fully reliable politicsl commissars, men who had served in
the Ked Army and who hence were fully cogniznat with the technique
as carried out among the Kus»ianse this solution to a grave problem
hed greatly enhanced Hruska's prestige. :
Since the August confermsnce, three points have been especially;
emphasized for a change in the Cze ho-Slovak Army: the first is that |
soldiers should receive intensive training in thc fighting against
partisan forces. “peetal courses have been initiated for all tzech
units under the personal sup-rvision of General Fedor Artemovich
Kovpak of the Red Army. One might remember that during World War 1il.,
it was General Kovpak who was in chafge of organizing all the
partisan forces in tussia and who made a ereditable job. he even
can be considered as the fathc: of modern partisan waffaree Soon after
the war, it was Kovpak's sssignement to organize partisan forces
everywhere in the non-commusist countriese ‘thus he became closely
associated with the Greek civil war forces. after that war, he was
put in the shadow for a while. vubviously for reasons connected with
the Greek failuree sovon after the beginning of the horean war, he
was appointed to the Soviet Yar Hastern staff and made as such several
trips to North Korea and China. He now is back in Marshal Zhukov's
staff and seems to be the man in charge of anti-partisam act.one
The second important point is that Ugech forces should be
toughened up considerably «s compared to their present degree of
toughness. While supervising Czech maneuvers, Soviet high officers
were slwagy struck by the fact that the Czech forces showed much less
endurance thagn their Kussian counterparts. ik nee the order that
from now on Uzech forces should follow exactly the same régorous “et
training system as their mussian comrades. ‘his will be especially
felt in the length of daily marches imposed on the soldiers and in a
drastic reduction of th ir food supphkies, while on military manucvers.
¢he third important change is the widening of the courses of
indoctrination in the armed Forces, General Kruska's po.itical commiss|
have found out, that at the bottom of their hearts most Czech soldiers
believe that the americans are more pow rful then ths Suscians and
that American weapons are bet: r than soviet onsse “his will lead
now to special courses on modern weapons, in which it will be
explained to the Czech forces that the weapons provided to them by
the ®uviets are the best in the world. Whether this will succeed
is another question.
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