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Skinny soldiers gain weight in health centers

For thin, young men in the Voronezh Region, the first month of military service is somewhat unusual. Here, recruits who weigh in below the army’s standard weight are sent to a kind of health center where they can fatten up.
By Natalia Mikhaylenko
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December 13, 2011
Tags: military, army, food

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