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Improvement of Higher Command Personnel, but on 1 September 1928 the political course was merged again and the combined course became KUVNAS. The course was generally taught by graduates of the Imperial General Staff Academy. By 1928, 4.6% of Red Army officers had been educated at either KUVNAS or an academy.
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