SOVIET ARMY FOOD SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000200260002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 16, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPOR
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boiled beer; sugar (20 g.); tea, no specified
amount; and bread, black, 300 g.
Noon meal: Borsch with cabbage, carrots, potatoes, and fried
onions; second course of either macaroni, boiled
barley, oatoi buckwheat, or wheat; a slightly
larger portion'
ort on of boiled beef than at breakfast;
bread, bla*kj. 300 g,; and water.
Evening meal: Peas; oatmeal or mashed potatoes; sugar, 15 g.;
and bread, black, 200 g.
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n Konotop, USSR,
a. Breakfast: Cooked cer!ai, usually barley; small portion of
let followed a general pattern:
In Austria the menu was essentially the same, except that the portions
were larger and the consistency.of the items was thicker. Food in the
USSR and in Austria was generally quite palatable. Units on border
guard duty fared considerably better than other units, since they made
a practice of trading with eivilians.,and in this manner varied their
diet, beef was traded for sans, baked rolls, and other items.
Second relpings were always available. to these units. Money was
usually collected from all personnel, 50 eekUaings per month from the
officers and five schillinge per month from the enlisted men. With
this money unit messes purchased fruit, cocoa, and milk for holidays.
In the field the responsibility for providin meals for infantry com-
panies fell on the battalion adis:nistrative (khozvzvod) supply platoons,
The supply platoon had two. field. kitchens in its organic equipment'
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Each of the kitchens had a private assigned'as a cook, The kitchen
consisted of a portable field stove that burned either wood or coal.
This stove was mounted on a two-wheeled carriage and was towed .by a
ZIS-5 truck', The other equipment of a field kitchen consisted of
one large kettle for borsch; one large kettle for gruel; a large pot
for tea; and other implements such as knives and ladles. When in
the field,`cooks would ordinarily build a fire in the stove and then
travel to a company messing a-rea;. Upon arrival, soldiers from the
company were assigned to t- I
re oration and eervin
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The T/O & E of the supply platoon was as follows: one officer,
three NCO's (a mess sergeant, a chemical warfare NCO, and a rations
NCO), five drivers, two cooks, and one reconnaissance man. In gar-
riaon the two cooks, organic to the supply administrative platoon,
operated the mess for the entire battalion. Soldiers from the,
companies were assigned as mess attendants and assistant cooks.
When units were separated from the parent battalion, soldiers were
often assigned to do the cooking for the unit, even if they had had
no prior experience, he meals were simple enough so that even an
untrained man was able to prepare them`.
,Officers it was more generous w no better
qua y0 cars meals were prepared in the EM's messes, but the
officers dined separately.
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