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Before there was VOIN there DOSAAF.
New wine in an old bottle?
VOIN youth paramilitary training to open a center in the Russian Far North.
[click on English to see the translation from Russian]
"The Center for Military Sports Training and Patriotic Education « VOIN » in 2024 plans to expand the geography of its presence. The Murmansk region will become another point on the map, where the regional branch of the organization will be opened."
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"Among the tasks of the Center « VOIN » – to prepare young people aged 14 to 18 years to serve in the Armed Forces of the country, to strengthen them physically and morally."
"Another task – is the training of citizens aged 18 to 35 who are in stock. The « VOIN » center should help them restore their lost skills and competencies, as well as give new knowledge of the military-technical features of the SVO."
Sports training as devoted to activities that have a definite military application. To include but scarcely limited to: * Target shooting * parachuting * physical fitness * driving a vehicle * martial arts.
See from the wiki a description of the Soviet Cold War DOSAAF:
"DOSAAF . . . was a paramilitary sport organization in the Soviet Union, concerned mainly with weapons, automobiles and aviation"
Out with DOSAAF and in with VOIN.
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