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Show THICKER THAN FLIES Russia Is Well Supplied With Manpower Russia and the Soviet satellites are appallingly well supplied with manpower for military purposes, according ac-cording to official estimates in Washington. Wash-ington. In Soviet Russia alone there exists ex-ists a tremendous reservoir of able-bodied able-bodied men for land armies. Best estimates indicate the existence of 176 divisions of Russian ground force and security troops, embody ing a total of three million men and 'including about 400,000 MVD security secur-ity troops. Eight Soviet satellite state? are reputed to be able to muster u total of about 100 divisions of 1,121,600 men. That makes a grand total of 4,121,600 soldiers in 274 divisions, many of whom are deployed at or near the point at which war conceivably con-ceivably could start. |