The Communist Party of the USSR called on women to strengthen their assistance to the Red Army

On March 6, 1945, the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a decree on International Women's Day. In the document, the party committed to hold a mass political campaign on March 8 aimed "at further strengthening assistance to the Red Army." This is reported by the newspaper Izvestia.

"The Central Committee of the CPSU(b) obliges all party organizations to hold International Women's Day on March 8 as a massive political campaign aimed at "further strengthening assistance to the Red Army for the speedy and final defeat of Nazi Germany, and strengthening the military and economic might of the Soviet state," the resolution says. dated March 6, 1945, which is quoted by the publication.

According to the document, party organizations are obliged to explain to all working women that for the final defeat of the enemy, every woman and girl in our country, like the entire Soviet people, must work even harder, increasing day by day the production of weapons, ammunition and equipment for the front, food for the army and the country, raw materials for industry.

There were exactly 64 days left until the Great Victory.

The decree states that party, Soviet, trade union, and Komsomol organizations must "take daily care of the industrial training and political education of working women, and nominate advanced women to leadership positions in Soviet, economic, and public organizations."

"Women workers, engineers and technicians! Give the Red Army more and more tanks, planes, guns, mortars, machine guns, submachine guns, ammunition!" the decree clarifies.

The material is published in the framework of special project of Izvestia "80 days to Victory".

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