The issue of security officers. Bashny.Net

It's no secret that the leather jacket worn by the Red commissars were sewn back in the First World War for the aviation battalion, but they did not have time to vilify, to revolutionize the leather jacket were found on some stock and security officers chose it as uniforms. Since then, the story begins leather jacket as a symbol of the revolution and fewer characters, the association with the KGB.
However, frost and cold, heat and rain could not keep the security officer leather jacket, machine oil and wind, yes. But not from the rest. Again repair the clothes is not convenient, it is not sewn on his knee. Skin-it was not myagonkaya and oak. At the same warehouses and sheepskin were cavalry and a neat new officer's greatcoat. But still dressed in the skin.

Q: Why did the KGB chose leather jacket?





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