@tornado Nope 🙂

@SW-User I guess they just have something against Russian, female snipers. 🤷‍♂️

@PhoenixPhail They are enemies of the State and must be crushed...comrade!

@PhoenixPhail

@SW-User Around a million women served in the Soviet military during WW2. They served as fighter and bomber pilots, machine gunners, battlefield medics, anti aircraft gunners, tank commanders and crew - basically every sector of the military.

She was highlighted in a programme on sky history i think but it was not a full lenghth segment... Jyst a little bit about the struggle of the Russian people in the Great Patriotic War... @SW-User

@braveheart21 Thank you. I have also just noticed this: Clearly, Sniper Wolf in MGS must be based on/inspired by her. Must be...has to be! Unless her story was not as widely known before 1998 [or before, seeing as how the game was released that year and would have been in development for quite some time before that].

I'll probably be looking for books on this sort of thing as well. I prefer non-fiction to fiction these days, generally speaking.

@Thespis Do you know how many confirmed kills she had

@Dlrannie 300ish

@Thespis 309 including 36 German Snipers sent to kill her. This pic is Popova

@Quimliqer Wrong - she fought in and around Odessa and Crimea - nowhere near Stalingrad 🙂

@Dlrannie Only part of the memory seems to be working!!LOL

@comfi1 Nope - she was famous in WW2 way before Tereshkova 🙂

@SW-User Nope

@Dlrannie oh well, best I had 🤷‍♂️

@SW-User That was Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. But not the woman in the picture.

I will stop making tangential statements now!

@Dlrannie Lyudmila Pavlichenko..sniping as answered by others.

@TheSirfurryanimalWales And how many confirmed kills ?

@Dlrannie pass...

@Oberon1 Yep the worlds most successful female sniper — Lyudmila Pavlichenko

@Dlrannie here one for you
It was an American engineer that designed the famous T 34 Russian tank

@antonioio I did not know that! Something to do with the physiology or cognitive traits of women? Or both?

@antonioio The Soviet BT tanks that preceded the T34 were based on designs by the American Engineer J Walter Christie. The T34 was a new design by the Kharkov Komintern Locomotive Plant under the leadership of Mikhail Koshkin. The only relationship to America was that it used a suspension system originally developed by J Walter Christie. The T34 went on to become one of the most produced and successful tanks of WW2. Ironically while Christie’s suspension system was used by Soviet, Polish and British Tank Designer’s it was almost totally ignored by the Americans. America did design a Heavy Tank in 1945 which they strangely called the T34 and was supposed to be the US equivalent of a German Tiger Tank - only two of which were built

@GovanDUNNY Fair enough 🙂

@Nanori I thought YOU were the sniper woman. 🥺 (🥰 xx)

@SW-User same

@sarabee1995 Correct 🙂

@SW-User Lol - don’t give it away 😂😂😘😘

@Dlrannie My Lips are sealed beautiful 😉😉💋💋💋

@RogueLoner Any idiot can Google 😂😂