State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich on Monday suggested returning the practice of conscripting students into the army. He stated this at a meeting with the heads of Belarusian institutions of higher education.
Volfovich asked university leaders to consider proposals, “how to train students in military departments, how do they generally relate to students being drafted into the armed forces, as was once the case in the Soviet Union.”
The State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council justified this step by the fact that a student who, after joining, goes to serve, returns to study as an “already mature” person and “the girls will look at him and the girls differently.”
And he will comprehend in a different way what he generally entered a higher educational institution for. And already at the military departments it is possible to reduce the number of hours for training in the future, – the official said.
In the USSR, the conscription of students into the army lasted from 1982 to 1989 during the war in Afghanistan. This made it possible to solve the problem of manning the Soviet armed forces in the face of a shortage of conscripts.
Russian-controlled Belarus, which offered its territory to the Russian army at the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has been actively militarizing and constantly conducting military exercises in recent months.
It should be reminded that according to the plans of war criminal Vladimir Putin, Russian tactical nuclear weapons are to be deployed in Belarus this summer.
Source: Racurs
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