Professor of Moscow State University, L.G. Andreev left the most curious memories of the "Philosophy of Existence." With regard to this cycle, they are interesting in that they describe his service in the army from the moment of conscription by a 19-year-old guy and to demobilization. the future professor had a scientific mind in his youth.
All the more valuable are his military memories. Combat training Andreev was held in 1941 in the Tesnitski camps (28 km from Tula). "The first days, when they were still living in the home, the portions seemed large. Soon the famine came, he did not leave us all the time in the camp. "Then Andreev was transferred to the camps near Noginsk, there was order and" fed better ". Then followed the march to the Kazan barracks (this is 800 km!) Where one could endure both cold and fatigue "if we were fed". The food in the cossacks Andreev equated to the Tesninsky camps - "The same spoon of the second and the bad first for lunch, one for breakfast, the second spoon for dinner, then, however, she disappeared. Invented and such a thing: if the soup is brewed with meat, then on this day they give out bread for 50 g less ... And such food - at a colossal load, with almost no rest! We exhausted steadily and catastrophically. When the position of the body changed, my head was dizzy, more and more quickly, and more tired in class. When they took the oath, one fainted from exhaustion "ANDREYEV G. Philosophy of Existence. Military memories. M. 2005, p. 61, 89, 92.
Pay attention to the completely idiotic and unnecessary transfer of recruits from one military camp to another.
And for great distances-what was the need to torment people so much and spend huge amounts of money on their transportation? If this was the best time for them, they took up combat training and conducted combat coordination of the units, then how many wasted losses could be avoided ...
In the military schools of the Red Army, the existence of cadets was half-starved.