LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky called on Wednesday, August 26, to recruit more women into the Russian army and to recreate women’s battalions. According to the politician, this will frighten the enemy armies.
“We have more women than men. We need to call on more women, this will terrify the enemy’s army, they will be afraid, ”he said on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel.
The parliamentarian recalled that there were such battalions in the tsarist army. According to him, they were distinguished by perseverance in battle, and the Austrian and German soldiers fled, seeing them on the battlefield, reports the TV channel “360”.
“Therefore, if today we recreate entire women’s battalions in each division, they will go ahead, they will go into a psychic attack, they don’t even need to shoot, they will only see Russian beauties, a women’s battalion, and everyone will scatter – both Poles, Lithuanians and others. – some NATO soldiers, ”he concluded.
On the eve, Zhirinovsky said that the State Council should have “superpowers” for making strategic decisions.
Commenting on the initiative of the Liberal Democratic Party leader, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov said on August 26 that the State Council is a very important body, according to the website aif.ru. According to him, this will largely depend on the decision of the head of state, who, according to the country’s Constitution, is engaged in defining the foundations of state policy.