"Thus, circumstances compelled to ereaie in the Far East a whole system of independent aviation, tanks, artillery, and other units, Training personnel for the new units iwas @ difficult and painstaking work. We had to work much on this and Gnally in 1034 we could bring into) Jfeld a whole series of now units.
"In connection vith these circum: stances, the Government has xed thy hew figure of strength of the Red Army at 940,000 men, which size the! Army reached by the end of 1934. Only the development of our techni-Que and mechanization of several Processes permitted us to limit ousselves to this gute. The Tyarist army, for instance, had in its ranks 1488,762 men in I
"The number of machine-guns in infantry and cavalry units has more than doubled; the number of] machine-guns in aviation and tank nits increased seven times, the number of tank guns and anti-tank ung increased 4% times, the number of heavy artillery pieces more than doubled.
"The quality of our artillery rapidly improving We have a series. of new excellent modern guns introduced into the army, more perfect shells, ete.
"We also show great growth in the field radio communications. Sinew the sixth Congress of Soviels, the folal number of army radio-stations grew by 1,750 per cent, and the Jnumber of aviation wireless stations, by, 1,900 per cent.
"The Navy has also considerable: grown since the sixth Congress of Soviets. If we take as 100 per cent. what we had during the sixth Congress, now we have $35 per cent, of Jsubmarines, 1,100 per cent. of coastguard ships, 470 per cent. of torpedo-cutters, ete. Briefly, we have scored great achievements in strengthening Of defence of our sea coasts during the last year."
"In the, first place, as M. Molotov already said, we have built, during the past years not a few fortified ares with necessary armaments on. our western and eastern frontiers. vent the enemy from seizing them [unpunished, we are obliged to create innumerable garriens and quarter them in the fortified areas, provide
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