Fun Fact:
One of the reasons the Russians beat the Nazis on the eastern front was because women served in combat.
In 1941.
These ladies were known as The Night Witches because they bombed your ass while you were sleeping. https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/06/night-witches-wwii-female-pilots
One of the reasons the Russians beat the Nazis on the eastern front was because women served in combat.
In 1941.
These ladies were known as The Night Witches because they bombed your ass while you were sleeping. https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/06/night-witches-wwii-female-pilots
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And the US supplied the hardware for war too!!! But that was when the US was the only game in town..
Had Stalin not made a pact with Hitler in 1939👇 , the World War 2 atrocities would have been minuscule in comparison to what they had been.
Soviet atrocities are comparable with Nazi atrocities and they lasted for decades after the war ended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact
https://apnews.com/article/russia-iran-putin-pezeshkian-visit-9ba69733bfba43d2461c20952c4a362a
Soviet sniper with 309 confirmed kills, making her one of the deadliest snipers anywhere, ever.
Putin is doing that now -- even adding North Korean fodder. Sure, all parts of his war machine helped at least a little bit. I wouldn't want to hold up his way of waging war as a model.
Night flying was extremely dangerous; those women were stone-cold pros