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From: voder!nsc!dtg.nsc.com!alan@decwrl.dec.com (Alan Hepburn)
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Subject: Re: Lithuania / Warsaw Pact military capabilities
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Date: 10 Apr 90 16:47:15 GMT
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From: voder!nsc!dtg.nsc.com!alan@decwrl.dec.com (Alan Hepburn)

In article <15321@cbnews.ATT.COM> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
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>Most draftees (grunt cannon-fodder) suffer 2-3 years of physical and
>emotional abuse from non-coms and officers. Being in the Russian Army
>is NOT as sexy as the U.S. Army (not saying that the U.S. Army is all
>fun and games, mind you). 
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Just for reference, I submit the following:

Oath of enlistment in the United States Army:

I, (your name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will bear true faith
and allegience to the United States of america; that I will serve
honestly and faithfully against all its enemies, whomsoever; and that I
will obey the orders of the President of the United states and the orders
of officers appointed over me, according to the rules and Articles of
War.

>From "The Red Army" pamphlet by the Worker's Library Publishers:

I, the son of the toiling people, and a citizen of the Union of Soviet
Socialist republics, assume the duties of a fighter in the Workers' 
and Peasants' Army.  Before the working class of the USSR and of the
whole world, I promise to bear this title with honor, conscientiously
to study the profession of arms and to guard like the apple of my eye
the national and military property from damage and theft.  I promise
to observe military discipline strictly and unswervingly and to carry
out implicitly all orders given me by the commanders appointed by the
workers' and peasants' government.  I promise both to refrain myself
and to restrain my comrades from any act unworthy of a citizen of the
USSR, and to direct my acts and my thoughts toward the great goal of
the liberation of all workers.  I promise at the first call of the 
workers' and peasants' government to come forward in defense of the
USSR against every danger and against the attacks of all enemies.  In
the struggle of the USSR for Socialism and for the brotherhood of all
nations, I promise not to spare my strength or my life itself.  Should
I of evil intent break this, my solemn promise, may the general
contempt of all be my lot and the heavy hand of revolutionary justice
fall upon me.



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