A Day In History

The Bizarre History of Women in WWII: Soviet Edition (2022x58)

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Just under half a million women served in the Soviet Red Army in WWII, or as it is known in the former Soviet countries, "The Great Patriotic War". The most famous of them were snipers, but as far as we can tell from what Soviet records were made public after the fall of the USSR, only about 2,000 of them served as snipers on the front line, or at least, those were the women who received formal training. But consider this. Even if we limit ourselves to 2,000, the arguably five most well-known were responsible for the deaths of close to 700 Axis troops!