In June 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union with the intent to conquer and enslave its people. In response, over 2000 Russian women enlisted as snipers in the Soviet army. The female sharpshooters who entered the brutal and sordid front lines of WWII became a terror to German soldiers.
The most notorious of them all, was Lyudmila Pavlichenko – also known as Lady Death. She reportedly killed over 300 Nazis in less than a year of combat, and later went on to train younger snipers. “We mowed down Hitlerites like ripe grain,” she once said, undeniably also referring to her comrades who lodged extensive kill counts of their own.
Russian sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, also known as Lady Death, reportedly killed over 300 Nazi soldiers in less than a year of combat. Roza Shanina, her comrade, killed a total of 59 Nazis at the age of 16, and was dubbed “the unseen terror of East Prussia” These women, and over 2000 others, were snipers for the Russian army who enlisted after Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941.
They were true heroines in the fight against fascism.
I have to say despite all the bad things about communism they treated women more as equal in fact the 3rd Soviet in space was a woman and she went decades before any American women
Hitlers goals wasn't to enslave the Soviet ppl his goal was to annihilate them. There was a reason all the extermination camps were in Eastern Europe and the worse Nazis crimes happened there he wasn't just after Jews and gypsies he was after Slavs too
@Mountainlady16 True he was planning to find more breeding ground for his "aryan race" to live. Funny thing how desperate the Nazis were that Himmler allowed his soldiers to have multiple women cause the birth rate dropped... most soldiers refused.
@Gloomy yep I took a class called Hitler's Germany in university we talked about things they don't teach u in most history classes about Hitler. Germany has never had a good history with religious minorities even before the Nazis my own ppls history can attest to that we came from Germany and Switzerland to escape religious persecution in the 1700s
@BritishFailedAesthetic no from the German states that existed before the German empire my ppl left Germany in the 1700s first settled in what was than called great Britain and than moved to pa
@Emosaur I agree that not every form of Authoritarianism is Fascism. Tankies tend to be more progressive when it comes to social issues, so that makes them the lesser evil to Fascists. However, Stalinism wasn't progressive. Under Stalin, the Bolsheviks put LGBT people in the gulags. And because Stalin used leftist imagery, Tankies will either downplay this or just deny it happened, much like Neo-Nazis deny the Holocaust.
While the Left does do way too much infighting and purity spiraling, we do have to draw the line somewhere. If policy matters more than vibes, we should view the Soviet Union as just another anti-freedom and anti-worker failed state. And bee tee dubs, I welcome Marxists, even though I'm not a Marxist. I think we can work with them. But Stalinists? Nein.
