Conscript Day in Russia
Beginning with the 1992 year, in Russia annually 15 November is the Day of the draftee. All young people aged from 18 to 27 years, called up for military service in the power structures of the Russian Federation (the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, etc.) can consider this holiday as their own. But it is also a special day for those who are just preparing to wear epaulets of a serviceman.
Usually on this day, the military commissariats hold a series of events dedicated to informing pre-conscripts about serving in the army, organize meetings with representatives of veteran organizations, military personnel and often representatives of the clergy. For young people studying in schools, colleges, universities and preparing for the call, organize excursions to military museums stories, to memorials dedicated to the feat of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War, visits to cinemas with the display of military-patriotic films.
Not all young people, of course, are ready to penetrate what their interlocutors are trying to convey to them, but this is only because of their age. Military psychologists say that such meetings and other events in any case have a positive impact on a person’s growing up and awareness of his responsibility in terms of debt to his relatives and friends, to his homeland.
Military psychologist Olga Gorovaya:
Conscript Day is actually an open-door day at the Russian military commissariats, which interested people can quite actively use to receive information of interest to them.
According to representatives of the structures responsible for conscription, recently the number of appeals from relatives of future conscripts with comments to comment on the situation of “possible dispatch of soldiers to Ukraine” has increased in the military registration and enlistment offices. Representatives of draft commissions have linked the emergence of such issues with the fact that in the media and on the Internet certain volumes of disinformation began to be issued, indicating that the regular Russian army was allegedly sent to the territory of Ukraine, and that supposedly conscripts were forced to sign a contract to send to military zone in the Donbass.
Officers responsible for conscription for such questions, coming mainly from impressionable parents of conscripts, usually answer this way: less trust in impulsive and unsubstantiated publications in which the authors bury the football team under the guise of the Russian military and then declare literary works as dead Russian soldiers. . Obviously, we are talking about the publications of a human rights activist with a strange bias towards the lies and slander of Elena Vasilyeva, who did not bother to answer for her words and each time inventing new and new samples of terrible tales about hundreds of personnel soldiers who died in Ukraine.
As the officers of the military commissariats say, often young people and their relatives come to the Recruit Day, who want to learn more from the first-hand information not only about the documentation that they need to collect for the conscript for military service, but also about the conditions in which they serve today. Russian soldiers. Reportedly, the issue of the duration of service does not leave the agenda of young people. The law in this regard has not changed. The conscription service in the Russian army is 12 months.
Often, regional military commissariats arrange excursions to military units on the Day of the draftee, where children can see the life of military personnel with their own eyes, become familiar with the regulatory and legal documentation, participate in the assembly-disassembly process weapons, look at samples of military equipment and even try a real soldier lunch. Usually, such excursions cause the greatest interest among young people, which is understandable. The boys' eyes light up when they see small arms, armored vehicles, new models of military communications in front of them. In military units are also preparing for the arrival of young people. One of the elements is preparation for the parade show, in which those who are already wearing shoulder straps and weapons, work out the striking of the step and alignment in the ranks and columns in order to present their skills to the future changers at the defender of the Fatherland.
A few days ago, the All-Russian Research Foundation Public Opinion conducted a survey asking respondents to describe the state of the Russian army today. For the first time in the history of such surveys, the number of people who responded that the state of affairs in the Russian army is improving has exceeded 50%. The positive dynamics of the state of affairs in the Russian Armed Forces was noted by 53% of respondents, and only 7% believe that the state of affairs in the national army is deteriorating.
An interest in serving in the army and directly among young people is recorded. More and more young people say that they are ready to fulfill their honorable duty to protect the Motherland, and they motivate their position not only because they are “necessary”, but also by very specific things: military service allows you not only to feel like a normal peasant, but also having a goal in life move toward that goal while at the same time taking steps along the career ladder.
Good luck recruits!
Usually on this day, the military commissariats hold a series of events dedicated to informing pre-conscripts about serving in the army, organize meetings with representatives of veteran organizations, military personnel and often representatives of the clergy. For young people studying in schools, colleges, universities and preparing for the call, organize excursions to military museums stories, to memorials dedicated to the feat of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War, visits to cinemas with the display of military-patriotic films.
Not all young people, of course, are ready to penetrate what their interlocutors are trying to convey to them, but this is only because of their age. Military psychologists say that such meetings and other events in any case have a positive impact on a person’s growing up and awareness of his responsibility in terms of debt to his relatives and friends, to his homeland.
Military psychologist Olga Gorovaya:
The boys are only outwardly boys. Due to age characteristics, it is difficult for them to show those emotions that can cause a critical reaction from other peers. That is why during the events that are organized on the Day of the Recruit, many try to demonstrate their non-involvement and the absence of any interest. In fact, at this moment an important psychological struggle of a young man and a man occurs, in which, with the proper organization of the process, an important stage begins in the formation of the psychology of the defender of the Fatherland. Although this process is very important to begin to implement more and in the family, in school.
Conscript Day is actually an open-door day at the Russian military commissariats, which interested people can quite actively use to receive information of interest to them.
According to representatives of the structures responsible for conscription, recently the number of appeals from relatives of future conscripts with comments to comment on the situation of “possible dispatch of soldiers to Ukraine” has increased in the military registration and enlistment offices. Representatives of draft commissions have linked the emergence of such issues with the fact that in the media and on the Internet certain volumes of disinformation began to be issued, indicating that the regular Russian army was allegedly sent to the territory of Ukraine, and that supposedly conscripts were forced to sign a contract to send to military zone in the Donbass.
Officers responsible for conscription for such questions, coming mainly from impressionable parents of conscripts, usually answer this way: less trust in impulsive and unsubstantiated publications in which the authors bury the football team under the guise of the Russian military and then declare literary works as dead Russian soldiers. . Obviously, we are talking about the publications of a human rights activist with a strange bias towards the lies and slander of Elena Vasilyeva, who did not bother to answer for her words and each time inventing new and new samples of terrible tales about hundreds of personnel soldiers who died in Ukraine.
As the officers of the military commissariats say, often young people and their relatives come to the Recruit Day, who want to learn more from the first-hand information not only about the documentation that they need to collect for the conscript for military service, but also about the conditions in which they serve today. Russian soldiers. Reportedly, the issue of the duration of service does not leave the agenda of young people. The law in this regard has not changed. The conscription service in the Russian army is 12 months.
Often, regional military commissariats arrange excursions to military units on the Day of the draftee, where children can see the life of military personnel with their own eyes, become familiar with the regulatory and legal documentation, participate in the assembly-disassembly process weapons, look at samples of military equipment and even try a real soldier lunch. Usually, such excursions cause the greatest interest among young people, which is understandable. The boys' eyes light up when they see small arms, armored vehicles, new models of military communications in front of them. In military units are also preparing for the arrival of young people. One of the elements is preparation for the parade show, in which those who are already wearing shoulder straps and weapons, work out the striking of the step and alignment in the ranks and columns in order to present their skills to the future changers at the defender of the Fatherland.
A few days ago, the All-Russian Research Foundation Public Opinion conducted a survey asking respondents to describe the state of the Russian army today. For the first time in the history of such surveys, the number of people who responded that the state of affairs in the Russian army is improving has exceeded 50%. The positive dynamics of the state of affairs in the Russian Armed Forces was noted by 53% of respondents, and only 7% believe that the state of affairs in the national army is deteriorating.
An interest in serving in the army and directly among young people is recorded. More and more young people say that they are ready to fulfill their honorable duty to protect the Motherland, and they motivate their position not only because they are “necessary”, but also by very specific things: military service allows you not only to feel like a normal peasant, but also having a goal in life move toward that goal while at the same time taking steps along the career ladder.
Good luck recruits!
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