State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich on Monday suggested returning the practice of conscripting students into the army.
According to “European Truth” with reference to the agency BELTAVolfovich said this at a meeting with the heads of higher educational institutions in Belarus.
At the meeting, the State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council asked the heads of universities to consider proposals “how to train students in military departments, how they generally relate to students being drafted into the armed forces, as it was once in the Soviet Union.”
Volfovich tried to justify such a step by the fact that a student who, after entering the service, returns to study as an “already mature” person, “and the girls will look at him differently.”
“And he will comprehend in a different way what he generally entered a higher educational institution for. And already at the military departments, you can reduce the number of hours for training in the future,” the official added.
In the USSR, the conscription of students into the army lasted from 1982 to 1989, during the war in Afghanistan. This made it possible to solve the problem of manning the Soviet armed forces in the face of a shortage of conscripts.
Belarus, which supported Russia with the start of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has been actively militarizing in recent months and constantly conducting military exercises.
In addition, in the summer in the country there should be deployed Russian tactical nuclear weaponsand the self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko wants to receive protection guarantees from Moscow in the event of an attack on it, similar to how it defends its own territory.
