Winter of 1943 Joseph Stalin ordered the Red Army returned in distillates, which were abolished in the army after the revolution. Why do the nations leader made such a decision and whether it was really done to raise morale as many write today? Let's try to understand the issue in order to understand how it was actually in those anxious for the Fatherland years.
Not yet completed the battle of Stalingrad, as the Red Army only began to win its first significant success, Stalin ordered the return of the troops in pursuit. Many will say that this was done to raise morale in the end to the "radical change" in the war it was still far enough. But then the question arises: if the commander in chief so just wanted to boost morale, why it was not done in the most difficult and dramatic for the Red Army months of the war?
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In fact, the army was not simply returned to the chase. It was quite a complex ideological measures to "restart" the military form and the psychological moment has been chosen very well. Return attributes unfortunate tsarism in the face and shoulder straps word officer (before there were "comrades commanders") in the early years against the backdrop of heavy fighting, defeat and retreat was not the best idea. But to fix the first successes psychologically - is another matter.
For example, the word "officer" was first used by Stalin during the war, in the order of 7 November 1942 on the counteroffensive at Stalingrad. This was done in order to re-emphasize the high status of the Commander. When it officially "officers" in the Red Army returned in 1946 after the transformation of the troops already in the "Soviet Army".
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As for the straps, their return was accompanied by the publication in the newspaper "Red Star" on January 7, 1943. It went out the corresponding order, and here is the explanation to it, quote:
"Shoulder straps are the traditional decoration of the glorious Russian army. We, the legitimate heirs of Russian military glory, take the arsenal of our fathers and grandfathers all the best that helped lift the military spirit and strengthen discipline. Introduction overhead once again confirms the continuity of the glorious military traditions, which is so valuable to the army, loving his country, becomes more expensive native history. Shoulder straps are not only an item of clothing. It is a sign of military dignity and military honor... Putting on shoulder straps - new insignia and military honor - we feel even more clearly the duty that lies on the army to defend their homeland from Nazi gangs. Army gives people the signs of honor, while requiring that the army maintained the honor on the battlefield ".
Interesting fact: Before the Second World War, Stalin ordered the reprinting of history textbooks for schools and universities. In a nutshell, any changes in the supply of stories came down to the idea "not all in our past was so horrible." By the way, the name of the "Great Patriotic War" was also coined by Soviet ideology is not just. The basis for the concept of war was taken in 1812 by Napoleon Bonaparte, who also was named "World".
It is important to understand that even though neither Lenin nor Stalin did not experience any zhalos to exhaust itself tsarist regime, or one nor the other (contrary to popular horror stories) does not deny the inheritance of the RSFSR and the USSR by the Russian Empire. In fact, to take his succession, including the army epaulettes, Stalin and his team went a long time. To do so could not only immediately after the "October", when in the saddle remained the most violent revolutionaries from among the opposition who could interpret such moves as "the restoration of monarchy."
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Continuing the theme Stalin alleged austerity, or what scope were equipped and protected garden peoples Father and not only.
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