Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Defense of the Revolution was a term used for paramilitary units created by the Communist Afghanistan government following the 1978 Saur Revolution, with the intent of mobilizing the population to find counter-revolutionaries and other enemies of the communist state. These units were officially volunteer, and based on the \"Cuban model\"; they were armed by the government and employed to guard sensitive infrastructure and maintain public order. Some reports indicate volunteers received incentives such as coupons for government stores. Editorials in the Soviet journal Pravda praised these defensive formations as early as mid-1979.Bruce Amstutz documents DotR units composed of teenage urban males, numering 20,000 on paper in the mid-1980s, who received US$162 per month for supporting the security forces. Other academics have commented on female members of DotR units."@en }
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- Defense_of_the_Revolution abstract "Defense of the Revolution was a term used for paramilitary units created by the Communist Afghanistan government following the 1978 Saur Revolution, with the intent of mobilizing the population to find counter-revolutionaries and other enemies of the communist state. These units were officially volunteer, and based on the \"Cuban model\"; they were armed by the government and employed to guard sensitive infrastructure and maintain public order. Some reports indicate volunteers received incentives such as coupons for government stores. Editorials in the Soviet journal Pravda praised these defensive formations as early as mid-1979.Bruce Amstutz documents DotR units composed of teenage urban males, numering 20,000 on paper in the mid-1980s, who received US$162 per month for supporting the security forces. Other academics have commented on female members of DotR units.".