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Stalin's Amazons - The Untold Story of the Red Army Female Snipers in Wolrd War Two (Paperback)
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Stalin's Amazons - The Untold Story of the Red Army Female Snipers in Wolrd War Two (Paperback)
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The USSR was the only nation to employ women in battle.It has been
written that, in what the Soviet historians called the Great
Patriotic War, between 800,000 and a million women from all over
the USSR took up arms, out of a total 10 million soldiers, sailors
and aviators involved. What's more, 200,000 of them were decorated.
The employment of such a quantity of women combatants by the Soviet
Union was due, also in this case, to several factors: the equality
between men and women sanctioned by communism; the multitude of
paramilitary activities offered free to students and workers
between the two world wars and in practice up until the fall of the
Berlin Wall; an ardent patriotism diffused by omnipresent and
incessant propaganda; the frightening losses incurred by the Soviet
Armed Forces with the German invasion. The women combatants paid a
high price in blood for the victory: many were wounded, remained
invalid, were killed, taken prisoner and tortured by the Germans or
disappeared and never returned home. However always very little is
said about them. Still less has been written on the subject of this
book, the women-snipers, an aspect that was totally exclusive to
the Red Army in the last war. There amounted to be a little less
than two thousand highly skilled markswomen that sowed panic among
the German ranks and that killed (according to some estimates)
20,000 enemy soldiers. In the West very little has been published
on these Red Army sniper women.
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