Ostland [SPR Wrote:]
The USSR had 24 months conscription. Fleet 36 months. Training very good. Morale "A"...!
It was (is?) normal for soviet conscripts to spend considerable parts of their conscription periods doing manual labor on behalf of the state. You don´t get to be "A" quality by running around Belarus felling trees or by plucking potatoes on a Kholkhoz....