Female soldiers of the Soviet Union thread

Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916-1974)
Nicknamed “Lady Death” for the number of Nazi soldiers she killed, 309 confirmed.
Awarded “Hero of the Soviet Union”, the highest award there was.
She passed away from a stroke at the age of 58.

Roza Shanina (1924-1945)
Described as “the unseen terror of East Prussia”, for her 59 confirmed kills.
Awarded the “Order of Glory”; she was the first woman to receive that order.
Shanina tragically died in combat in 1945, after being hit by a shell fragment.

Lidiya Litvyak (1921-1943)
Lidiya was a part of the all-female 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Defense Force.
She was the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft.
Lidiya was presumed dead or captured on August 1st 1943, when she did not-

-return to her base. The remains of her shot down aircraft were not found until 36 years later in 1979, where it was determined she died in combat. As she had not been captured, she was posthumously awarded “Hero of the Soviet Union” in 1990.

Mariya Oktyabrskaya (1905-1944)
Mariya’s husband was killed in combat in 1941, where she then sold her possessions to donate a tank to the war effort. She drove a T-34 medium tank, named “Fighting Girlfriend”.
Mariya fought on the eastern front of the Great Patriotic War-

-until her tank was hit by a German anti-tank shell. She was hit in the head by fragments and went into a 2 month long coma before she died on March 15, 1944 at the young age of 38. She was given the order of “Hero of the Soviet Union” posthumously the following august.

Yekaterina Budanova (1916-1943)
Budanova was a part of the 586th Fighter Aviation Regime.
She was one of the worlds two female fighter aces. She was credited with at least five air victories, and 11 confirmed kills.
Budanova was shot down by an enemy fighter and was confirmed-

-dead on the 19th of July, 1943. She was buried by farmers of the village she crashed in. She was posthumously awarded “Hero of the Russian Federation”.
(Budanova left, Lidiya right)

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923-1941)
Zoya was a member of the Komsomol, assigned to burn an enemy village. She was captured by German forces and tortured for information, but she refused to give in.
Moments before she was hanged on November 29th, 1941, she spoke out this message: -

-“Hey, comrades! Why are you looking so sad? Be brave, fight, beat the Germans, burn, trample them! I'm not afraid to die, comrades. It is happiness to die for one's people! You hang me now, but I'm not alone. There are two hundred million of us. You can't hang us all. They will-

-avenge me!”. Moments before she was hanged, with the rope on her neck she declared: “Farewell, comrades! Fight, do not be afraid! Stalin is with us! Stalin will come!”

Natalya Meklin (1922-2005)
Natalya Meklin was a link commander in the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment. She completed 980 combat missions.
She survived the war and went on to re-enlist in the Soviet military in 1947, and went on to become a member of the Union of Soviet-

-Writers in 1972. She co-authored the book Нас называли ночными ведьмами (We Were Called Night Witches), named after the nickname given to her force. She lived a long life and died on June 5th, 2005. She is buried at Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

Tatyana Makarova (1920-1944)
Tatyana was flight commander in the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. She was awarded “Order of the Red Banner” for completing 195 missions on October 19th, 1942.
In 1943 she was promoted to squadron commander.
She was shot down on August 25 1944-

-and she and her co-pilot died in the plane. She flew 628 sorties, dropped 96 tons of bombs, destroyed 2 ferries and killed more the two entire platoons of Nazis.
She was posthumously awarded “Hero of the Soviet Union”, and “Order of Lenin” on February 23rd, 1945.

Alexandra Samusenko (1922-1945
Alexandra was a T-34 tank commander, and the only female commander of her battalion.
Alexandra was killed in combat from unknown wounds, presumed to be from enemy Germans. Her body was discovered by a Soviet tank driver and she was-

-buried in Łobez, Poland. She was posthumously awarded “Order of Patriot War 1st Class” on March 13th 1945.

Nina Petrova (1893-1945)
Nina served in both the Soviet-Finnish war and the Great Patriotic war.
In November 1941 she was transferred to fight as a sniper in Leningrad.
She had 122 confirmed kills across her military career.
She tragically died in a car crash on May 1st 1945.

Helene Kullman (1920-1943)
Helene was an intelligence agent in Nazi-occupied Estonia. She was caught by the Gestapo and was fatally shot by a prison guard after she spat at his face. She was posthumously awarded “Hero of the Soviet Union” on May 8th 1965.

Aniela Krzywoń (1925-1943)
Aniela was a member of the Polish army. On October 12th 1943, was driving a truck carrying wounded Polish and Soviet soldiers, when they were attacked by Nazi forces. She ran into the burning vehicle to rescue the soldiers and retrieve important-

-intelligence. She tragically died from her injuries. She was posthumously awarded the highest honors of both the Soviet Union and the Polish Army, and was the only woman to receive “Hero of the Soviet Union” that was not a soviet citizen.

These are the brave women who sacrificed their life, and put their life on the line to fight against fascism. They live on as some of the most inspirational and powerful women who ever lived, and we carry their legacy in our fight for communism. Long live the Soviet Union.

sources:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rbth.com/history/328548-soviet-women-who-contributed-victory/amp

and wikipedia.

My apologies as some of the photos may be incorrect, it is difficult to find photos of some of these women.

stop sexualizing these women, it’s disgusting and misogynistic.