Soviet Women on the Front-line.

Discussion in 'The Women of WW2' started by Owen, Nov 1, 2006.

  1. Shörner

    Shörner Member

    The russians employed wemon as snipers supposedly because they are more capable of keeping still and calming their nerves in action.

    However i cant be to sure of this little fact, but it was told to me by a Russian reinactment unit at a local exhibit.
     
  2. Weinrich

    Weinrich Junior Member

    The Red Army had about 800.000 female soldiers in WWII and they served everywhere even as snipers and bomber pilots. And many of the Russian partisans were women, too. The Germans called these women "Flintenweiber" the translation could be something like "shotgun-sluts", a word that expresses in German disdain and fear at the same time.
     
  3. BulgarianSoldier

    BulgarianSoldier Senior Member

    The Red Army had about 800.000 female soldiers in WWII and they served everywhere even as snipers and bomber pilots. And many of the Russian partisans were women, too. The Germans called these women "Flintenweiber" the translation could be something like "shotgun-sluts", a word that expresses in German disdain and fear at the same time.
    SS soldiers and fear are two words that cant be put together..
     
  4. laufer

    laufer Senior Member

    SS soldiers and fear are two words that cant be put together..

    Oh, please!
    By the way, I love your new avatar. It reminds me old good days of Warsaw Pact - "Together We're Invincible!"
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  5. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

    SS soldiers and fear are two words that cant be put together..
    Very true Dani but the SS were in a definite minority on the Eastern Front. Yes there were sizable numbers but in terms of the overall number of Germans in the East it was a small percentage.
     
  6. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    Well, there were SS and there were SS...

    From 6th SS Mountain Division Nord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    July 1941: July 1: Operation "Silver Fox" - German & Finnish units retake Soviet-occupied Finland and invade Soviet Karelia. SS-Nord assigned to German "Norway Army" with unit strength: 9,505. Assault on Soviet positions at Salla, after 2 attacks in which 5 SS battalions are skewered, the Soviets counterattack. Soldiers of the SS-Nord panic, abandon their weapons and run from the battlefield, suffering 86 killed, 232 wounded and 147 missing. The "Rout at Salla" becomes evidence for Heer officers that racial and ideological paragons do not automatically make good soldiers - only adequate training and preparation does. SS-Nord eventually rallies and participates in the failed drive to interdict the Murmansk railway at Louhi.

    Also I don't think you could expect much from the masses of "improvised Aryans" Himmler was shangaiing into the SS after mid-war, could you?
     
  7. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Good photo from Kursk The Vital 24 Hours by Will Fowler.
    Photo credited to Nik Cornish.
     

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  8. Run N Gun

    Run N Gun Discharged

    I'd like to learn no more info on women deployed in battle on the ground. Any one got any information?
     
  9. debra

    debra Member

    Love that Ludmilla pavlichenko...one of my heroes!
     
  10. Christos

    Christos Discharged

    Folks....everybody knows that women make better and more ferocious soldiers than men ever could...

    Soviet girls have proved this....

    In his series of 'faction' novels about his experiances of the infantry fighting on the Eastern Front, Sven Hassel mentions more than once that his unit used to slaughter these girl soldiers out of hand!....WOE betide the German soldier captured by them!


    If Eastern European women can do it, why can't ours?

    The answer is obvious....they always could....

    WE just haven't let them have a go!
     
  11. deadb_tch

    deadb_tch the deadliest b#tch ever

    I've noticed this topic and think I can improve it :D
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  12. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

    Excellent post sir! Interesting photos. I'm curious though, in the last picture it shows a listening device. Where they any use???
     
  13. deadb_tch

    deadb_tch the deadliest b#tch ever

    Excellent post sir! Interesting photos. I'm curious though, in the last picture it shows a listening device. Where they any use???
    As you can see on this photo :)) hehe this is not a hearing device - this a megaphone used to alert about german air-strike :).
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  14. deadb_tch

    deadb_tch the deadliest b#tch ever

    Partisanen.
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  15. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

  16. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

    I love the ads for the sound locators!!! "Ears to the Sky"!!! Like who was their "target" market if you'll pardon the pun?
     
  17. deadb_tch

    deadb_tch the deadliest b#tch ever

    So :) Is this a hearing device or alerting device? :) For me it looks like megaphone, but on link provided by Von Poop it described like hearing device :)
     
  18. deadb_tch

    deadb_tch the deadliest b#tch ever

    Some facts about women in Red Army.

    In first week of war there was 20 000 applications from Moscow women and girls, just after 3 months 8360 of them was joined to army.
    In number of Leningrad's young members of Komsomol was 27 000 applications from women. Over 5 000 of them was sent to front as they was acknowledged be proper for army. Over 2 000 of them were fought on Leningrad front.
     
  19. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    So :) Is this a hearing device or alerting device? :)
    I'd say almost certainly a pre-radar listening/sound location device. If a need was there for a giant megaphone I'm sure they'd use conventional loudspeakers or PA system, and sirens would announce air attack more effectively than any amplified human voice.

    Cheers,
    Adam.
     
  20. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Just going off topic a bit, that is 100% a Sound Locator, here are two British examples.
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    A Mobile Sound Locator of the 1st Anti-Aircraft Division, Territorial Army Mobile Display Group, in use at night.

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    A Sound Locator on a tripod mounting in operation with an anti-aircraft battery


    Back on topic, some good photos there of Soviet women, deadb_tch, thanks.
     

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