"I want to live": about those in Western Siberia who evaded the soldier
Isupov, V.A.
Keywords: evaders, deserters, call to military service, mobilization, military registration and enlistment office, re-registration, illegal reserving, simulation, mutilation.
Abstract
In his first approaching to archives documents, chiefly to the materials of military departments of the Territory and Regional Committees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [Bolsheviks], the author tries to reveal the scales and means of evasion of citizens from military service in the Red Army, in the years of the Great Patriotic war. The analysis of these documents has shown that the most widespread ways of such evasion were the following ones: staying here or there with false documents, non-appearance in military registration and enlistment offices, in cases of calls to military service, bribery of workers of such military offices, illegal reserving, simulation of illnesses and mutilation. In historiography of our country, the problem of evasion from military service in the Red Army is raised for the first time. The statement itself of such problem is the author
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