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Show rmcKi R nt.w mrs 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 o tremendous reservoir of able-bodied able-bodied men for land armies. Best estimates Indicate the existence of 17S divisions of Russian ground force and security troops, embody- j ing a total of three million men and Including about 400,000 MVD security secur-ity troops. Eight Soviet satellite states are reputed to be able to muster a total of about 100 divisions of 1,121.000 men That makes a grand total of 4,121,000 soldiers In 274 divisions, many of whom are deployed at or near the point at which war conceivably con-ceivably could start. |