Organizational development and streamlining of the Internal Troops as part of the state military system, based on the experience of the Great Patriotic War.

From: Military Thought | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Baranov, V.P. | Copyright information

The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (1941-1945) required the mobilization of all of the country's resources to repel the enemy: the deployment of strategic reserves and a reorganization of all services and branches of the country's Armed Forces, including the Internal Troops of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD).*

By the start of the Nazi aggression, the Internal Troops had a numerical strength of 174,000 servicemen. After mobilization, their ...

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