After the end of the Second World War, in the martyrs' cemetery in Moscow, there was an inconspicuous tombstone inscribed with the following words: "The pain is so enduring, like a snail moving patiently; the happiness is so short-lived, like the tail of a rabbit skimming the autumn steppe." ”
This epitaph is followed by the burial place of a Soviet female sniper. This sniper is ranked among the top ten snipers in the world, what kind of legendary life does she have?
The Soviet beauty sniper rifle method was too accurate, which made the German army feel frightened
The name of this Soviet female sniper was Lyudmila Mikhaillovna Pavlyudchenko. Born in 1916 in a small village in Ukraine, at the age of 9, she moved with her father to Kiev. There, she got a job and often attended shooting clubs.
Perhaps by fate, in 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union. She was only 24 years old and a student majoring in history at Kiev State University. She was publicized and encouraged by the government and, like many of her classmates, signed up for the Red Army.
Her appearance was very much in line with the standards of a female soldier, and the recruiting officers recognized her as suitable as a field nurse or a logistician. But what Pavlyutchenko wanted to do was indeed a real soldier. She told the recruiting officer about this idea, but was ridiculed by the other party for not knowing how to hold a gun. So she immediately made a aiming gesture, and no matter how much the officer persuaded her, she would become a soldier. In desperation, the officers incorporated her into the 25th Infantry Division as a rifle shooter.
In August 1941, the 25th Infantry Division was ordered to defend a hill near Bayaevka. Lyudmila was active with a scout who flew on the first sniper mission of her life. As the gunshots rang out, the enemy fell down. Soon, the second target reappeared, and Lyudmila, unlike the other girls, was afraid of killing, but instead did not hesitate to aim at the enemy and pull the trigger.
In this operation, she won two victories and began her real sniper career. Later, while he was fighting in Odessa, in just two and a half months, Lyudmila killed a total of 187 enemies. However, her meager strength alone could not turn the tide of the war, and Odessa was eventually lost under the powerful Offensive of the German Army.
Lyudmila obeyed the order to assemble at the seashore and followed the troops to Sevastopol. By the time she was away from the battlefield, she was only 25 years old and had already sniped and killed 309 Germans. As soon as such achievements were reported, they immediately shocked the whole Soviet Union, and at the same time shocked the whole world, which made the Germans feel frightened.
Lyudmila became roosevelt's first Soviet citizen
In 1942, During a battle, Lyudmila was unfortunately injured by a German shell. When Stalin learned of this, he immediately ordered Lyudmila to evacuate in a submarine. The famous Soviet sniper returned to China to heal her wounds, and within a month she visited the United States, becoming the first Soviet citizen to be received by Roosevelt. There, she became good friends with Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, and was invited to live in the White House.
In her speech in the United States, she said: "Gentlemen, don't you think you have been hiding behind me for too long? Such an auraous sentence is actually implying that the United States has opened up a second european battlefield.
Later, she also went to Canada and other countries, mainly responsible for speaking about her experiences in the war. After returning from the United States, Lyudmila accepted the arrangement of her superiors to serve in the Soviet Navy and was promoted to the rank of rear admiral.
Lyudmila died in 1974 at the age of 58. Two years later, the Soviet Union issued a commemorative stamp in honor of the "sharpshooter".