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The army deputy commander for political affairs is responsible for the
following in peacetime and wartime: for the organization and state of political
work in the army; for the efforts of political and military indoctrination of
servicemen and reinforcement of the political morale of the personnel and
military discipline; for the effectiveness of political work in solving the
problems of combat and political training and maintaining the army's constant
combat readiness, and in executing combat missions. He is subordinate to the
army commander, and he is the direct superior of all personnel of the army.
The army's deputy commander for political affairs is obligated:
----- to participate in the development of the combat and political training
plan and the army's mobilization plan;
----- to organize and conduct political work, guiding it in such a way that it
would unify the personnel about the Communist Party and Soviet government,
promote successful fulfillment of combat and political training missions,
maintenance of the army's constant combat readiness, fulfillment of combat
missions, and reinforcement of one-man command, military discipline and the
political morale of the personnel;
----- to conduct an effort to indoctrinate the personnel of the army in the
spirit of boundless devotion to the Soviet motherland, the Communist Party and
the Soviet government, the friendship of the peoples of the USSR, proletarian
internationalism, combat unity with the armed forces of fraternal socialist
countries, intolerance of bourgeois ideology, unswerving compliance with the
USSR Constitution and Soviet laws, faultless fulfillment of the requirements of
the military oath, the military regulations and orders, and the norms of
communist morality, conscious obedience to commanders (chiefs) and respect for
them; to take steps to unify the military collectives, and to indoctrinate the
personnel in the spirit of friendship and troop comradeship, combat traditions,
loves for one's unit and faithfulness to he unit`s colors as a symbol of
military honor, valor and glory; to organize extensive propaganda of acts of
heroism and of the courageous and noble deeds of the army's personnel;
----- to explain to servicemen the leading and guiding role of the communist
Party, its decisions, its domestic and foreign policy, the military political
situation and the consequent missions of the personnel of the army, and to
propagandize the successes of the Soviet people in the construction of
communism;
----- to instill in the personnel an awareness of the need for high political
alertness, faultless fulfillment of military duty and strict maintenance
political work aimed at fulfilling the tasks of guard duty and internal (duty
and watch) services;
----- to instill in the servicemen a class hatred of the enemies of the
motherland and a constant preparedness to defend the state interests of the
USSR in all conditions and at any price;
----- to instill in the servicemen a feeling of personal responsibility for
assimilation of armament and of combat and other equipment, for its maintenance
in constant combat readiness, and for preservation of military and public
property;
----- to organize and conduct mass political and legal propaganda and
agitation, political lessons and briefings and cultural-educational work among
the personnel and the families of servicemen, making extensive use of
publications, motion pictures, television, radio, and other technical
propaganda resources for these purposes;
----- to organize the ideological, theoretical, and teacher training of the
leaders of political lesson groups and their assistants, and the selection,
placement, indoctrination, and education of active propagandists in the units
and subunits;
----- to manage the political indoctrination of officers and to shape their
work political, and moral qualities; to personally conduct the indoctrination
of officers and to manage their Marxist-Leninist training; to participate in
the selection, placement and certification of officers and in the selection of
candidates for military training institutions; to teach officers the practical
techniques of political indoctrination;
----- to organize the work of the army club and library, and to insure
maintenance of a high ideological level in the measures they carry out and
inclusion of a maximum number of personnel in these measures;
----- to implement measures associated with organizing socialist competition in
the army and propagandizing the best experience in personnel training and
indoctrination; to develop the initiative and activity of party and Komsomol
organizations in this work;
----- to display concern for the health and diet of the personnel and for
improving their material and personal conditions, to know their needs, and to
show concern for satisfying them;
----- to establish and constantly maintain communication with local party and
soviet organs, and to render assistance to them in the conduct of
military-patriotic work among the public, especially the young;
----- to organize proper use, maintenance and proper replenishment and repair
of technical propaganda resources and political eduction aids;
----- to promptly report to the army commander and the army's chief of
political affairs, on the political morale of the personnel, on political
measures that had been carried out and on the status of political
indoctrination and military discipline.
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