What Soviet military soldiers thought about their forced woke indoctrination training from military Political Commissars/Zampolits (from CIA reports)

Some of this will sound very familiar (especially when you read the above articles by Air Force Academy cadets):

Soviet Officers and NCO's receive political lectures from the regimental political officer or battalion political officer for 208 hours annually on the Communist Party, Stalinism, Leninism, etc. Regular military officers despised the zampolits.

Soviet Army officers and Enlisted Men abhorred the political indoctrination lectures and took only the minimum interest necessary to keep from being reprimanded.

“The propaganda is boring to all.”

“The lectures are extremely boring, and are immediately dismissed from any conversation among the men.”

“The attitude of Soviet soldiers toward political indoctrination may be briefly qualified as indifferent and apathetic. Soldiers are not interested in political lectures, mainly because they are “dry stuff”, and partly because soldiers feel, instinctively if not clearly, that the political indoctrination is mostly based on lies. Since attendance is obligatory, soldiers have to sit through the lectures and listen to them, or at least pretend to do so.

Everybody is afraid to ask any questions which may be interpreted as criticisms of the regime or of the party policy.

Criticism and self-criticism respectively, were a core function of the mandatory Party meetings. [Criticism is a core component of Marxism, thus Critical Race Theory, struggle sessions, critically accusing you of being racist]

Professionalism, or the development of skills and ideals of the Soviet military service, was severely retarded by the control system. The many hours of political indoctrination and Marxist-Leninist training could have been better spent. Advancement within the system did not favor the militarily skilled officers, but the politically skilled.

The Communist Party needed to use the military as an agent of social control and change internally.

From: White House Executive Order Installs Political Commissars Throughout Government