PREPARING WOMEN FOR WAR IN THE CAPITALIST COUNTRIES IN THE 1920S-1930S
Military training of women in the interwar period was carried out in almost all developed European countries and some countries in North America. Women trained in military affairs made up a significant reserve of the army's logistics and support services. In the USSR, great importance was also attached to the training of the female contingent in military affairs, which was based on the developed network of circles and clubs of OSOAVIAKHIM. The events of the Second World War showed that the sports, special and military-patriotic training of women in the pre-war period played a significant role in providing rear services and civil defense of both the capitalist countries and the Soviet Union.