After the start of the Soviet-German war, 3.8 million Red Army troops were captured by the Germans within half a year! Due to the severe attrition of the Red Army, the Soviet High Command had to recruit a large number of women aged 18-25 to enlist in the army.
According to statistics, during the entire Soviet Union Patriotic War, the number of female soldiers serving in all branches of the military exceeded 800,000, which is also the largest female soldier team in human history.
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In addition to the medical, communications, and logistical jobs traditionally excelled by women, female soldiers in the Soviet Union took on the most dangerous tasks like men, such as commandos, tankers, pilots, machine gunners, scouts, and snipers.
In the autumn of 1941, the defense of Moscow began, and three flying regiments were composed entirely of women. Since then, for their bravery and outstanding achievements in major battles such as the defense of Stalingrad and the capture of Berlin, two female flying regiments have been awarded the title of "Guards Regiment".
Two Soviet female pilots: Rufina (left) and Natalia.
Rufina was born in 1921 during the war with 848 sorties and Natalia (1922-2005) 980 sorties. On February 23, 1945, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
A group of young female warriors. When you see them, do you remember the famous Soviet film "Here the Dawn Is Quiet" that touched a generation of Chinese?
Below is a set of beautiful photos of female Soviet soldiers in World War II.
In 1942, when the war was at its most intense, commandos composed exclusively of female soldiers appeared in the front-line troops.
A female soldier carrying a bullet clip
Female soldier with sniper rifle in hand
Serious female soldiers on the streets of Berlin
A female medical aid soldier
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A female signal soldier in the middle of war
A beautiful female soldier wearing a medal
Two female ambulances by the tank
A female sniper smiled brightly in front of the camera, and more than 1,000 female soldiers who graduated from women's shooting professional schools killed more than 12,000 enemies during the war, resulting in a large number of sniper heroes.
Lyudmila Mikhaillovna Pavlichenko, a Soviet ace female sniper, was awarded the Order of Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Gold Star for sniping a total of 309 German troops, including 36 German snipers.
Pavlichenkojung photo
Soviet female soldiers, who defended the country with their youth and blood, were awarded various Soviet war medals, including the highest rank of the Order of Heroes of the Soviet Union.
The statue of Zoya, the cemetery of the heroine of the Soviet Union in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery, was designed to look exactly like when she was hanged by the Germans at the age of 18. War, women can't walk away. Behind the glory was the fact that more than half of the female Soviet soldiers died on the battlefield or in Nazi concentration camps, and they experienced the unimaginable wounds of war for men.
In fact, it was not only the Soviet Union at that time, and the war was fought to the last moment, and there was a serious shortage of male soldiers. In order to have sufficient troops, countries have recruited many female soldiers. Even Germany, which has always advocated keeping women away from the battlefield, finally recruited 500,000 female soldiers in the name of recruiting female assistants!
But it is strange that these female soldiers still maintain the tradition of wearing skirts on the battlefield, and no one will wear pants. Not only Soviet and German female soldiers, but also female soldiers from European and American countries such as Britain and the United States wore skirts to the battlefield. In our modern opinion, don't talk about the war, even when you usually go to physical education class, you won't wear a skirt, because it's very inconvenient to move.
If there is any strenuous exercise, not only is it unsafe, but it is also easy to walk away. And why do these female soldiers who participated in World War II still insist on wearing skirts? In fact, it is not that these female soldiers love beauty and want to wear skirts at the moment of life and death, but because this is the tradition of European and American countries.
But even if they fight in skirts, female soldiers are no worse than male soldiers, and they have impressed the people of the world with Soviet women in countless wars.