Labor Army - World War II

World War II

The term "labor army" re-emerged during the second world war as an informal reference to the obligatory labor duty introduced during 1941. Conscription to labor duty was similar to military mobilization. The mobilized persons were informally called trudarmeytsy (трудармейцы, i.e., "labor-army-ists").

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