ADVANCEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS LEVEL OF SPECIAL COMMUNICATION WARRIORS DURING THE PREPARATION TO THE KURSK BATTLE IN THE YEARS OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
The article is devoted to the research of the historical experience of organization of government high frequency communication in USSR in the second period of the Great Patriotic War. On the basis of the archive and published materials analyses the disadvantages of Red Army units control in the link Commander-in-Chief Staff – front – army of the first period in war. It is concluded that the quantity increase of government communication wire means in troupes control for preserving hiding of troupes regroupment during the preparation to the Kursk battle. The identified deficiencies served the basis for changes in structure, staff, organization, equipment of government communication in the beginning of offensive actions in Kursk edge region. Analyses the experience of party’s and leading bodies’ activity of different levels directed to forcing moral and psychological state of government communication units personnel and advancing communication warriors training.
Keywords: government high frequency communication, Great Patriotic War, separate regiment of government communication, Kursk battle, Orel–Kursk edge, Commander-in-Chief Staff, NKVD
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Issue: 5, 2016
Series of issue: Issue 5
Rubric: HISTORY OF RUSSIA
Pages: 139 — 143
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