RE: DS 2: Diversifying terms

I was alluding to the fact that Cossacks are once again being recruited
to do 
border control type duties.  The other was that the Soviet era border
guards 
did fairly well in the early stages of the Great Patriotic War.

Michael Brown

-----Original Message-----
From:	John Leary
Sent:	Monday, June 09, 2003 11:15 AM
To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject:	RE: DS 2:  Diversifying terms

--- Michael Brown <mwbrown@sonic.net> wrote:
> Cossacks comes to mind.  Of course the Border Guards
> trace back to the NKVD or
> even earlier.

Cossacks are a regional organized part of the
army.	Border guards are almost always a
paramilitary organization which is part of
the government structure but not the army.
The NKVD was the military arm of the
communist party, while the government paid
the bill, the troops were party members and
owed loyalty to the communist party NOT
the government (while under normal conditions
the distinction is minimal since the communist
party was the government).

Bye for now,
John L.

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