The most successful female sniper in history, Lyudmila Pavlichenko. She was credited with 309 kills.
One of the influences on an Uber character, by the by.
by the way: she killed nazis
praktischer antifaschismus
Soviet assault squad advancing towards the Reichstag.
Soviet submachine gunner ready to fire in a Berlin tram.
Machine gunner Zina Kozlova. June 30, 1942. Photo by Mikhail Savin.
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The cover for the 1966 album Cossack Patrol by the Red Army Ensemble, better known as the Alexandrov Ensemble. Tracks include Cossack Patrol, The Cliff, Evening On The Roadstead, The Sun Has Set Behind The Hill, You Are Ever Lovely and John Reed Walks In Petrograd. Sounds sweeping and romantic, yet faithful to the party line!
Young Soviet partisan Vasya Borovik. According to the source, he blew up nine German supply trains and killed more than 100 Germans during summer of 1944.
so jung. so cool.
