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Show THICKER TH1N 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 175 division? 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 states are reputed to be able to muster a 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. |