Video: Photos of Soviet women who participated in hostilities during World War II
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There is nothing pleasant in war, war is a completely different life, when you get used to death, stress, terrible conditions, hunger and heavy physical exertion. And that is why women are so little associated with war, although war does not bypass them, there are no exceptions for war at all. During the Second World War, there were many girls and women among the Soviet troops who performed hard work along with men, including those who participated in hostilities. In our review, some photographs of those times are presented, in which you can see girls in the ranks of the Soviet army.
As participants in the hostilities later said, most of the "licked and clean" photographs of those times are staged for propaganda. Photographers needed to shoot beautiful pictures about the dedication of ordinary Soviet people, and therefore in their photographs their uniforms are always clean, smoothed, their faces are not burnt from the sun and frost, but courage and determination in their eyes. In fact, as Nikolai Nikulin recalls in his book "Memories of the War", the soldiers often did not have what to eat, the clothes were worn and off someone else's shoulder, and the village fattening went down in the very first months of hostilities and reached painful thinness.
But, despite the staged photographs, one cannot deny the significant contribution of women to the course of the war. In addition to the irreplaceable help in the infirmaries, girls and women, on an equal footing with men, dug trenches, fired from heavy artillery, were engaged in reconnaissance, worked as signalmen, tank crews, drivers, served in the infantry - the number of women was measured in thousands in the first months of the declaration of war. Special female military formations appeared. By the end of the war, a total of 95 women had been awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, some of them posthumously.
Women's battalions were, of course, not only in the Soviet army, some time ago we already told our readers about British Air Force pilots … Looking at these fragile beauties, it is hard to believe what difficulties they had to face and what hard work they had to do.
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