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X.A1l2. Dec-mber 52e - page two" 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 transferred 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. 43.
