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Soviet Army Is
World’s Largest
Organization
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(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW. D :c.yP)—In 20 years
of preparing herself against at
tack by capitalistic neighbors, So
viet Russia has built the world's
largest army.
Its 1,600.000 men (including the
army, navy, air force, border
guards and secret police), its esti
mated tank force of 4.500. its fly
ing fleet of undisclosed thousands
of planes are accepted by military
experts as larger than any other
today.
What the Red army could do in
war, however, remains to be test
ed. It is one of the question
marks of Europe.
Soviet officials say the men are
better physically than ever, that
they show greater skill in man
euvers, that mechanization has
greatly strengthened their might,
that they "know how to defend
the frontiers of the socialist fath
erland against fascist aggressors.”
Foreign observers in Moscow are
inclined to believe real strength
lies in the masses of the Red ar
my.
Diplomats returnng tio Moscow
from summer vacations report
that abroad in Europe they found
a prevalent feeling that the wave
of executions in the current blood
purge had weakened Russia as a
world power. Some statesmen
outside, they said, reasoned that:
1. Either there was treason in
the Red army, as charged at the
trial and execution of Marshal
Mikhail ukhachevsky and seven
other generals.
2, Or there was no treason and
the charge that the generals were
in the pay of Germany was a
frame-up by a jittery dictator to
get rid of them.
Weakness was indicated either
way, they said.
he official Soviet press indign
antly denies such reasoning. It
insists the purge, which is sup
possed to have weeded out 10.000
officers of doubtful loyalty, has
strengthened the army.
Spies Feared
Foreigners here are inclined to
believe the army, whatever its
fighting power, now is thoroughly
loyal, at least, to the Soviet re
gime and communism on which
it is based.
Much of the mystery about the
Red army is due to the exception
al secrecy with which it is cloak
ed against foreign spies. With
war from the Japanese or Ger
mans constantly feared, it is be
lieved that 400,000 men are kept
on the eastern frontiers and 600,
000 on the western borders of the
Soviet Union. The remainder of
the standing army is in home re
gions.
To reinforce the huge standing
army, a reserve of 8,000,000 to
10,000,000 trained men, who have
completed their military service,
is maintained.
Russia’s defense budget this
year was 25,130.320,000 rubles.
That is about five billion dollars
at the arbitrary official exchange
rate, or about $2,500,000,000 at
the estimated actual worth of the
ruble. No other European coun
try carries such a war budget.
Transportation Problems
The present naval strength is
unknown to the outside world;
but since the new navy was de
signed along purely defensive
lines, it is believed to consist
mostly of curisers and destroyers
for the protection of such expos
ed ports as Vladivostok, Lenin
grad and Odessa. Foreign esti
mates that Russia possesses 150
largest undersea fleet, are believ
ed to be an exaggeration.
The big enigma of Russia's
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military strength is transports
tion. The railroad transport has
always been notoriously bad. Tti
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! World War disasters.
he Sowe* po.vers have worked
mightily to improve transporta
jtion. Railroad lines have beer
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; built in such strategically import
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ways are being built. Troops are
trained to bail out of warplanes
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lines, with full fighting equip
ment.
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I still is slow and shows defects,
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foreigners in Moscow recently
i took three weeks to get there af
ter they arrived in Leningrad, a
bout 450 miles away.
But the Soviet press announces
that railroad accidents, so preval
ent in Russia, are fewe. Many
persons have been shot for them.
Freight car loadings have reached
93,403 in a single day. A drive
is on to load 100,000 cars a day.
Japan Believed Menace
The spy fever is more intense
in Soviet Russia than elsewhere
in a spy-scared Europe because of
the fear of capitalist encroach
ment and a suspicion that is, per
haps, partly Asiatic.
Since fascism is the foe of com
munism, Germany is particularly
feared, with Italy to a much less
er degree because of the distance
separating Moscow from the Med
iterranean. Japan is considered
1 a great potential menace on the
east.
j Soviet Russia proclaims that
she does not want to fight except
in defense of her frontiers against
attack. She has indicated the sin
cerity of that assertion by refrain
ing from going to war in count
less crises, particularly with Ja
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