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|u/raddavo - 13 hours
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|Wow
|u/Zwaaf - 11 hours
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|My thoughts exactly.
|u/Admirable_Count989 - 1 hour
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|https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/jbrwCUs0Zn
|u/fake_geologist - 19 minutes
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|Wow
|u/North_Statement_5135 - 2 hours
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|I mean.. she can kill me.. like damn!
|u/wattjuice - 1 hour
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|Ngl.. She's a bop
|u/morning_thief - 12 hours
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|a few years ago on the PlayStation, you could farm Gettle in The Dust &
|he could drop what was called the *White Death* (Simo Haya) -- until
|they released an update & made the name
|[***Lyuda***](https://borderlands.fandom.com/wiki/Lyudmila) permanent on
|all consoles.
|u/MyOtherTagsGood - 9 hours
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|I'm pretty sure it was The White Death on Xbox, and was the Lyuda on
|PS originally. Now it's Lyudmila on both You also forgot to mention
|it was in the game Borderlands 2
|u/morning_thief - 9 hours
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|Apologies -- I played it on Steam. And yes, the link sends you to
|the BL wiki. Didn't want to say it outright -- just wanting to get
|the attention of fellow Vault Hunters.
|u/Make_It_Sing - 8 hours
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|This is crazy i just restarted a new borderlands 2 run and now i see
|this 😎
|u/janne_harju - 11 hours
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|Do tou mean Häyhä? Was his name at america Haya?
|u/morning_thief - 11 hours
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|apologies for being an insufferable idiot for incorrectly spelling a
|region specific name -- but yes. his actual name which, i'm guessing
|you've spelled correctly. (?)
|u/TennoHBZ - 11 hours
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|Pls stop. Finnish punctuality at its painful maximum. Its boring and
|no one cares. Kind regards, A fellow Finn
|u/DayTrippin2112 - 6 hours
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|u/blessend0r - 12 hours
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|She was Ukrainian, born in Bila Tserkva
|u/Vas1le - 9 hours
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|Both statements are true. Ukraine was part of Soviet union in that
|time.
|u/NozGame - 7 hours
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|Did they say it was wrong?
|u/Vas1le - 7 hours
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|Did I say they are wrong?
|u/NozGame - 6 hours
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|No but you were correcting them. First line.
|u/Vas1le - 6 hours
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|> She was Ukrainian, born in Bila Tserkva The comment I
|replied also implied that she was ONLY Ukranian. why the
|trigger? Only can detect 1 imply? Tell me you are getting
|political without telling lol
|u/Zippier92 - 6 hours
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|Get a room folks!!! Lol
|u/TeaBagHunter - 1 hour
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|It's really funny when redditors decide to argue over
|nothing. It's shocking how the threshold to trigger an
|argument is so low
|u/BlindWillieJohnson - 9 hours
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|Ukraine, which the Soviets absolutely devastated under Stalin. If the
|Nazis hadn’t treated the Slavs like bloodthirsty racist psychopaths,
|they might have enlisted a lot of local support. Then again, if they
|hadn’t been bloodthirsty racist psychopaths, they would not have been
|the Nazis
|u/catcherx - 28 minutes
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|*Soviet ukrainians or Ukrainian Soviets, not abstract Soviets. And
|nazis did get a lot of local support
|u/Level_Consequence_45 - 2 hours
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|Иди об стену ударься
|u/YellKyoru - 13 hours
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|I wonder how many “war talents” where overlooked by traditionally not
|having women at the front army; even though there is no real reason
|women wouldn’t be able to use weapons as good as men
|u/SBR404 - 12 hours
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|It’s an incredibly interesting topic. I’ve read a book about female
|Soviet soldiers in WW2 (I have to look up the name) and their stories
|were fascinating. Even in communist Russia, where in theory there was
|gender equality, women volunteering for the military had a very hard
|time to get accepted. They legally couldn’t *not* accept them, but
|often times the bureaucrats would talk them out of enlisting. If that
|didn’t work they would often put them in medical school to train as
|medics. But many women were successfully fighting in the armed forces
|in combat roles. There is that rather famous description of female AA
|gunners that were overrun by Germans on their advance towards
|Stalingrad. The German commander was describing the encounter in his
|journal. First he talked about how desperate the Soviets must be if
|they have women fighting in the war, and how shocking it was for him
|and soldiers to see woman fighting. But then he goes on about how
|fiercely they were fighting, compared them to tigers, and praised them
|highly for the ferocity they displayed in defending their little AA
|emplacement.
|u/SlayerByProxy - 12 hours
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|I know very little about military history, but I do remember reading
|about the female, Soviet bomber pilots, known by the Germans as the
|‘Nachthexen’ or ‘Night witches’. There was resistance to their
|formation, and they were not given much support initially, they
|basically flew older aircraft generally used for training or crop
|dusting while carrying out raids on German troops. The planes were
|light and slow, too small to be detected on radar, and the pilots
|would fly in low to targets and shut off their engines and glide
|before dropping their ammunitions, with only the air whooshing
|around the planes being audible, the Germans soldiers likened the
|sound to broomsticks, hence their name. My understanding is that
|they were pretty efficient with what they had.
|u/gearstars - 11 hours
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|Funny, I was gonna mention [the Night
|Witches](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches) also
|u/BBTB2 - 4 hours
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|There should be a movie about this I feel like.
|u/iwanttobeacavediver - 1 hour
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|There’s a Sabaton song if that counts…
|u/raider1v11 - 3 hours
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|This documentary covers it well
|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedknobs_and_Broomsticks
|u/haefler1976 - 9 hours
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|They flew thousands of sorties and caused very little damage. It
|was Soviet propaganda.
|u/SlayerByProxy - 8 hours
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|Considering they were given bargain-bin equipment and very
|little training, and were operating in sub-zero temperatures at
|night for many of their runs, I think they were pretty
|effective. One of their purposes was to keep the German soldiers
|awake and fearful, which is a difficult effect to quantify. The
|Germans felt threatened enough to offer an Iron Cross to any
|soldier that killed one.
|u/Boomstick101 - 4 hours
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|There is also the wife who used her life savings to buy a tank after
|her husband got killed and her only request was to drive her tank to
|go after the Germans which was granted.
|u/Colspex - 2 hours
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|It sounds like you might be thinking of "The Unwomanly Face of War:
|An Oral History of Women in World War II" by Svetlana Alexievich.
|This book is based on interviews with Soviet women who served in
|various capacities during World War II, including as medics,
|snipers, and soldiers. Alexievich captures many perspectives and
|stories, highlighting how these women sometimes faced skepticism and
|resistance despite the official stance on gender equality in the
|Soviet Union. The book also describes how these women often exceeded
|expectations in their roles. Another book that covers the role of
|Soviet women in combat is "Night Witches: The Amazing Story Of
|Russia's Women Pilots in World War II" by Bruce Myles, which
|specifically focuses on female combat pilots who fought against the
|Germans.
|u/SBR404 - 1 hour
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|Yes exactly that book by Svetlana Alexievich! Thanks! It was a
|fascinating read, absolutely recommending it!
|u/Lifeshardbutnotme - 8 hours
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|I know of a very similar story from Stalingrad when the Germans were
|approaching an AA gun that was not only controlled my all women, but
|also they were all high schoolers. No training on how to use the
|artillery either. Just eyeballing it and adjusting on the fly.
|u/Slyspy006 - 10 hours
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|If you talk up your enemy, then you talk up yourself.
|u/SBR404 - 1 hour
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|True, but the Germans also weren’t really known to talk up the
|*Bolshevik Untermenschen*, now were they?
|u/Im-Watching-Y0u - 12 hours
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|I don't doubt there were sexist reasons but there were some legitimate
|socio economic reasons aswell.
|u/terp_raider - 9 hours
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|Grip strength is significantly lower in women on average compared to
|men. Grip strength is one of the strongest predictors of accuracy for
|shooting. Edit: why the fuck are you guys downvoting me? This is a
|scientific fact. I’m just saying that, on average, men will be more
|accurate shooters than women
|u/Xenon009 - 6 hours
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|That being said, for snipers, the marksmanship isn't the problem. I
|seem to remember the US military saying that they could train
|roughly 50% of people to shoot at sniper standards. The problem was
|the mental aspects, which made only 2% of soldiers viable snipers
|(and then a smaller subset that aren't better used in some other
|role)
|u/stuugie - 13 hours
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|Probably a lot
|u/Zippier92 - 6 hours
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|Yeah looking like combat women will not be allowed in the us military
|soon. I’d hate to have Lyudmila on a different team!
|u/munkeypunk - 9 hours
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|Let’s be clear; “I haven’t killed 309 men. I’ve killed 309 fascists.”
|u/Wasserschweinreich - 4 hours
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|Depends where she was deployed. Many could’ve been Finns and Poles
|defending their country from soviet aggression.
|u/Inevitable-Toe745 - 2 hours
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|She fought in the defense of Soviet Ukraine, specifically the sieges
|of Odessa and Sevastopol, before being wounded and withdrawn from
|frontline service. She likely fought German and Romanian troops.
|u/shlongloveer - 2 hours
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|She was deployed during operation Barbarossa. Who knows, she could
|have killed invading Finnish troops who collaborated with the Nazis.
|In end she only killed invading fascists, German or not.
|u/fromrussiawithlow - 13 hours
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|That's an interesting interview with her. Literally iron lady.
|https://youtu.be/djj5Lmo_Ehc?si=0sZiVxxvqAcMc8Qo
|u/OhfursureJim - 11 hours
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|I don’t speak Russian but thanks
|u/astroNerf - 8 hours
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|Most here don't, but the auto-translate feature of Youtube should
|get you most of the way there.
|u/OhfursureJim - 1 hour
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|I am dumb I don’t know how to
|u/refraferry - 11 hours
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|Good on her, killing nazi cunts.
|u/ManOfGame3 - 9 hours
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|It’s a public service
|u/BudapestSF - 11 hours
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|The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn is a based on her life. Great story.
|u/syzygialchaos - 9 hours
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|Was going to suggest this! It has some rather interesting liberties
|taken, but the overall story is fairly accurate, especially her life
|and training in Russia. It’s a great read.
|u/thsmchnkllsfcsts - 12 hours
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|Woody Guthrie wrote a song about her - Miss Pavlichenko
|https://youtu.be/SHKjOl9ocR0?si=YBl-iafhfkmzKT7f
|u/Deletereous - 13 hours
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|Isn't 309 a sniper rifle caliber? In Borderlands 2 there is a legendary
|sniper rifle named Lyuda in her honor, but in Russia, it's name was
|changed to Maxim, for reasons I still don't understand.
|u/idek-what13 - 12 hours
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|7.62x53r equates to a .309 caliber, the Mosin Nagant is 7.62x54 which
|equates to a .312 The 7.62x53r was developed in Finland in 1891 and
|is used in a modern Finnish made sniper rifle. This woman used the
|Mosin-Nagant, as purpose built sniper rifles didn't exist, they were
|just standard issue rifles fitted with magnified optics. It also
|isn't necessarily the ammunition that's made for sniper rifles, it's
|rather the rifles themselves that are purpose built to be precision
|weapons.
|u/LordsOfJoop - 13 hours
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|Might be you're thinking of .303?
|u/OakTreesForBurnZones - 10 hours
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|.308
|u/foul_ol_ron - 4 hours
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|There were accurized sniper versions of the Lee Enfields, but the
|.303 isn't particularly noted for long range performance.
|u/Sufficient-Agency846 - 10 hours
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|That’s so funny, the sniper in the game used to be called ‘The White
|Death’ in reference to Simo Häyhä which is very ironic given the
|manufacturer is based on Russia, so it makes more sense to renamed it
|to an actual Russian and not a killer of them
|u/kalidorisconan - 10 hours
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|There is also a pulse rifle named Lyudmila-D in Destiny 1 that you get
|from Banshee the gunsmith as one of the weekly legendary gun pickup’s.
|Some rolls were SUPER nasty too!
|u/HumanistDork - 11 hours
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|There is a podcast called Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff that had a two
|parter about her. [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cool-people-
|who-did-cool-96003360/episode/part-one-a-tale-of-
|two-121934668/](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cool-people-who-did-
|cool-96003360/episode/part-one-a-tale-of-two-121934668/)
|u/dinkinflickamynicka - 6 hours
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|Is that like the opposite of Behind The Bastards? I enjoy BTB but
|sometimes I need a break from how awful people are.
|u/dadvocate - 10 hours
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|"Not men, fascists."
|u/SCKR - 11 hours
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|A lot of soviet Badasses seems to be ukranians.
|u/Xenon009 - 6 hours
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|I mean, it makes sense. Roughly 50% of the USSR's population was
|russian, and the rest were other ethnicities. Even today, ethnic
|russians only outnumber ukranians about 3-1
|u/kromvan - 5 hours
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|Bullshit
|u/RayPout - 1 hour
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|Right. There were a decent amount of scumbags like Stepen Bandera
|saying “Slava Ukraini” and collaborating with Hitler. But thankfully
|there were a lot more like Lyudmila - ~7 million Ukrainians fought for
|the red army in WWII.
|u/persimmon40 - 12 hours
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|There is a very decent movie about her called "Battle of Sevastopol". [
|https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4084744/?ref\_=fn\_al\_tt\_1](https://www.i
|mdb.com/title/tt4084744/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) Very good stuff. High
|production value and all.
|u/-Livingonmyown- - 8 hours
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|Good movie . Saw it a while back on Tubi or Pluto can't remember.
|Funny enough the movie doesn't mention she had a kid before going to
|war
|u/Soap_Mctavish101 - 13 hours
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|That’s not actually her I think. Her picture on her Wikipedia article
|looks nothing like this woman.
|u/persimmon40 - 12 hours
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|Given this video it's her. Looks the same, but older. [https://youtu.
|be/djj5Lmo\_Ehc?si=0sZiVxxvqAcMc8Qo](https://youtu.be/djj5Lmo_Ehc?si=0
|sZiVxxvqAcMc8Qo)
|u/lagun42 - 12 hours
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|Unfortunately, half of her history as sniper is made up.
|u/buckshot95 - 10 hours
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|Almost all famous snipers are heavily, heavily mythologized.
|u/angrytreestump - 5 hours
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|Yeah “confirmed kills” has a lot of room for variation when we’re
|including anywhere in the world at any point in the history of
|rifles. Also, ya know, the whole thing with a sniper is to stay
|really far away from what you’re attacking.
|u/polishmachine88 - 10 hours
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|Propaganda from Russian side. Both side did that.
|u/torsofucker - 2 hours
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|she was Ukrainian, born in Kyiv region
|u/So3Dimensional - 6 hours
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|And 1st prettiest
|u/SlimeyFootPaste - 13 hours
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|Now THAT is bad ass
|u/lvivskepivo - 11 hours
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|Another example of Ukrainian excellence.
|u/hummus_is_yummus1 - 11 hours
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|Meanwhile the new DoD head wants to remove all women from combat roles
|u/TopTransportation695 - 6 hours
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|Those Ruskies were really good at killing Nazis. We could take a lesson
|or two from them.
|u/ThroughTheIris56 - 37 minutes
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|She was Ukrainian.
|u/Marcbehar - 12 hours
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|Is there a sniper Hall of Fame?
|u/Antique_futurist - 11 hours
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|Yes, but you can only see it from the next hill over.
|u/Sad_Lawfulness1266 - 8 hours
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|The original Sniper Wolf
|u/ImACoolGuy100 - 7 hours
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|u/Comfortable-Bench330 - 7 hours
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|The far-right of my country went mad for a mural dedicated to her in a
|public place. They said she was a killer and blah blah blah; what really
|pissed them off is that she killed their nazi friends.
|u/hambone012 - 12 hours
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|Would
|u/Beneficial-Salt-6773 - 6 hours
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|That’s Ms Lady Death to you.
|u/philkid3 - 6 hours
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|Is this the woman who becomes the absolute nightmare OP war machine in
|that comic where WWII soldiers get alien powers?
|u/Mad_MaxWallace - 6 hours
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|Badass
|u/GrnMtnTrees - 6 hours
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|And a stone cold fox to boot.
|u/GeneComprehensive797 - 6 hours
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|She later proved to be very important asset of USSR, she was vocal in
|showing the world the efforts of USSR to kill the fascists.
|u/jrcunningham21 - 6 hours
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|Would
|u/chasehinson23 - 5 hours
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|Anyone get her reference
|u/Mr_Rafi - 5 hours
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|Sounds odd, but she has a sniper named after her in Borderlands 2.
|u/wanna_escape_123 - 4 hours
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|Fredrick zollar : finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be-
|******
|u/NeighborhoodNew3904 - 4 hours
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|And attractive to boot
|u/Living_Artichoke_202 - 4 hours
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|Confirmed kills?
|u/criphman - 4 hours
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|Why did she feels like Bishop from chess across the board b****
|u/Rushmore9 - 3 hours
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|Reminds me of that Metal Gear sniper lady
|u/Crafty_Check_889 - 2 hours
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|Finally a woman who loves taking head
|u/benthelurk - 2 hours
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|Maybe it’s just me because I just finished watching the Diplomat, but is
|this not a photo of Keri Russel?
|u/BarGraffiti - 1 hour
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|She’s amazing. I actually just got done reading her memoir. I highly
|recommend the book “Gentlemen, I am 25 years old and I have killed 309
|fascist occupants by now. Don’t you think, gentlemen, that you have been
|hiding behind my back for too long?”
|u/okyptos - 1 hour
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|An amazing sharpshooter. Too bad the Soviets were absolute monsters
|towards their female soldiers.
|u/MrM1Garand25 - 17 minutes
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|Ukrainian btw (if I remember right)
|u/Icy-Document9934 - 11 minutes
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|(bring her back we have some naughty fascists in Moscow to kill)
|u/PressureTime5816 - 9 minutes
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|When ruzzians were heroes! Now they are the fascists! Strange world.
|u/PhoenixSaigon - 10 hours
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|Propaganda
|u/Current-Section-3429 - 10 hours
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|She's a beauty!
|u/brainimpacter - 5 hours
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|80 years later people still falling for Soviet propaganda, they really
|were the goatds of PR
|u/Ericcctheinch - 7 hours
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|Unfortunately there's no way of knowing if any of it is true or just
|Soviet propaganda
|u/goodgirlyblonde - 6 hours
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|and yet we meat chug any western propaganda without a second thought
|u/Ericcctheinch - 6 hours
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|It's possible to be skeptical of both
|u/Graphic_Materialz - 8 hours
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|Looks like Ally Sheedy
|u/unitednihilists - 7 hours
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|For anyone interested: The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of
|Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich (Noble Prize for
|literature) Women just see war differently than men. A fascinating
|read.
|u/cocadetustacos - 7 hours
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|I like her eyebrows.
|u/Electrical_Fix7157 - 6 hours
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|And she’s only 4th? Holy cow.
|u/specialPurp - 5 hours
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|Sniper wolf
|u/KutasMroku - 1 hour
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|Stop idolising soviets. Its like posting a Nazi officer with a similar
|caption.
|u/Soytaco - 10 hours
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|She was bangin
|u/fkenned1 - 7 hours
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|309 people. And she has a smile on her face. Surreal.
|u/Brjalaedingur - 4 hours
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|Reddit falling for communist propaganda as usual
|u/EventualOutcome - 11 hours
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|Yes dear. 1 sandwich coming up. You look beautiful today.
|u/ahmmu20 - 12 hours
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|Who's the 1st sniper then?
|u/idek-what13 - 11 hours
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|Simo Hayha from Finland is considered the deadliest sniper in history.
|u/BadNameThinkerOfer - 2 hours
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|Francis Pegahmagabow was more successful if you count captures
|though.
|u/Im-Watching-Y0u - 12 hours
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|She shot the other 3
|u/ahmmu20 - 12 hours
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|u/yooperville - 8 hours
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|I find this horrific to think about
|u/zrayburton - 10 hours
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|Beautiful and deadly like my ex!
|u/FouismyBoi - 13 hours
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|Good ole Russian equal opportunity
|u/AdministrativeCable3 - 9 hours
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|*Soviet
|u/artlastfirst - 12 hours
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|Ukrainian *
|u/UROWGN90 - 11 hours
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|Stfu
|u/DayTrippin2112 - 6 hours
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|u/lvivskepivo - 11 hours
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|She was born in Ukraine.
|u/Budget_Flan1709 - 7 hours
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|Verghastite inspo
|u/jak_d_ripr - 7 hours
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|I don't know how you cope with having 309 kills on your conscience. Even
|if the people you killed are enemies, that has to weigh on you.
|u/TheKimulator - 6 hours
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|It did. She struggled with alcoholism later in life.
|u/doublebuttfartss - 10 hours
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|shoot me mommy
|u/avfrost - 10 hours
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|There's always one
|u/doublebuttfartss - 8 hours
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|how am I alone on this!?
|u/padddddddddddddy - 11 hours
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|I can change her
|u/HarrumphingDuck - 10 hours
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|Gorgeous, tough as nails and kills Nazis by the truckload. I wouldn't
|change a thing.
|u/Dulse_eater - 12 hours
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|She looks exactly like tennis player Arya Sabalenka
|u/TheKimulator - 7 hours
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|🤘yep. That’s my city too
|u/Bllasphomy - 13 hours
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|I’m gonna go back in time and marry this woman.
|u/Willing-Minute-2891 - 4 hours
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|And she was Ukrainian. 😉
|u/Kooky-District6894 - 4 hours
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|It is interesting that she was Ukrainian and that in the modern history
|there are also two Ukrainians in the top 5 longest-distance sniper kills
|in the world. I wonder, is there some special sniper training technique
|in Ukraine?
|u/DownHereWeAllFloat - 8 hours
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|Commie propaganda.
|u/beelzb - 12 hours
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|She aint broken
|u/Im-Watching-Y0u - 12 hours
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|A target?
|u/PotentialSalty730 - 12 hours
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|4th was Simo Hayha. Pavlichenko is not even top 20.
|u/idek-what13 - 11 hours
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|Simo Hayha is considered the deadliest sniper in history.
|u/iwishihadnobones - 10 hours
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|Does anyone have a source for this photo? Because if you google her
|name, you will find hundreds of photos, at many different ages, of a
|completely different woman.
|u/voqgriffin86 - 10 hours
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|Sabaton should write a song about her and make a story/music video of
|it.
|
