Women of the Red Army Military History
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D an 18-year-old nursing soldier Nina Yakovleva Visjnevskajas job was as dangerous as tank crews. That in the heat of battle his way up to the burning truck wrecks on the battlefield to see if anyone inside was still alive demanded an unusually fearless. Vishnevskaya was among the fortunate ones who survived and after the war were able to share their experiences of the Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksijevitj:
"Medical instructors in armored troops killed quickly. fol For us there was no room inside the tank. You had to cling on top of the armor and the only thing you thought fol of was that one leg would not be drawn into the tank's band. And so you have to look out for if someone else tank caught fol fire ... Then you had to jump off and rush over there and climb up. "
She was one of five female healthcare soldiers - all of girlfriends from the city Konakovo, north of Moscow - who served in an armor battalion of the Red Army's 32nd armored brigade. It was a brigade participated in all major battles on the Eastern Front, from Kursk to Berlin. fol
"The tanks burned often. If the tank crew survived had extensive burns. We also received burns because we ourselves crawled fol into the fire when we would pull them burned. ... It was actually very difficult to pull a man through the door. Especially when it came to the shooter in the tower. And a dead man is heavier than a living, much heavier. fol There I soon learn. "
It is extremely risky job took its toll among the friends. "We were five girls from Konakovo, but I was the only one who went back to my mother," fol recalled Nina Yakovleva Vishnevskaya later. By then, she had risen through the ranks from foot soldier to sergeant major. On the uniform she wore when Red Star the words and the Great Patriotic War, the words of the second class.
Vishnevskaya was one of the hundreds of thousands of women who served in the Red Army during World War II. According to official Russian figures, there were more than 550 000 women in the army and navy along the years 1941-45. Of these were just over 300,000 in air defense, while about 150,000 fol served in field hospitals, Staffs, leg joints and other military support functions just behind the front line. More than 3000 also served as pilots and ground personnel in the Soviet Air Force. The remainder - about 100 000 women - were front-line soldiers. They served, fol for example, as snipers, machine-gunners, pilots, partisans and tank crews and their work was as hard and dangerous as men's. Nearly 200,000 female Red Army men were decorated and 89 of them received the highest Soviet award, the Soviet Union hero.
If you add all the women who worked at the military hospital longer behind fol the front leads up to a total figure of over a million Soviet women in military uniform. So says the American historian David Glantz.
S ommaren 1942, about a year after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army began in earnest fol to recruit young women to fill the gaps after the huge losses on the battlefield. Prior to this, the Army has been extremely reluctant to accept the women who volunteered for military service. But at the outset numerical disadvantage before the Battle of Stalingrad saw no Soviet military commanders longer able to take account of it.
Recruitment to the Red Army coincided with a bingo promotion for women to armor industries and collective farms - all to mobilize as much social resources as possible for the war. According to the British historian Catherine Merridale was the Soviet authorities' main intention is not to equate men and women. It was hoped that the presence of women in the men's point would get the men to shame, and thus make even greater efforts for the motherland - both at the front and in the factories. But it was also about to incite women to help in the fight against "the fascist beast," as the German invaders were called in propaganda. Women who wanted to fight on the front lines had to start fighting against the Soviet military authorities, fol who consistently wanted to place them in the units behind the front line. It was also behind fol the front as most of them ended up - to replace male leg troops that were needed at the front line.
The female recruits was seen frequently with skepticism by the men in uniform and were subject to patronizing and sexist comments. Nina Yakovleva Vishnevskaya was no exception. "The soldiers, who saw how young we were girls, liked to make fun of us," she recalled later in an interview with Svetlana Aleksi
Home Articles Ancient armies of the Middle Ages 1500s 1600s 1700s 1800s World War I World War II Modern conflicts Comics warfare champion Military mistakes Soldier in Box News Front Quiz!
D an 18-year-old nursing soldier Nina Yakovleva Visjnevskajas job was as dangerous as tank crews. That in the heat of battle his way up to the burning truck wrecks on the battlefield to see if anyone inside was still alive demanded an unusually fearless. Vishnevskaya was among the fortunate ones who survived and after the war were able to share their experiences of the Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksijevitj:
"Medical instructors in armored troops killed quickly. fol For us there was no room inside the tank. You had to cling on top of the armor and the only thing you thought fol of was that one leg would not be drawn into the tank's band. And so you have to look out for if someone else tank caught fol fire ... Then you had to jump off and rush over there and climb up. "
She was one of five female healthcare soldiers - all of girlfriends from the city Konakovo, north of Moscow - who served in an armor battalion of the Red Army's 32nd armored brigade. It was a brigade participated in all major battles on the Eastern Front, from Kursk to Berlin. fol
"The tanks burned often. If the tank crew survived had extensive burns. We also received burns because we ourselves crawled fol into the fire when we would pull them burned. ... It was actually very difficult to pull a man through the door. Especially when it came to the shooter in the tower. And a dead man is heavier than a living, much heavier. fol There I soon learn. "
It is extremely risky job took its toll among the friends. "We were five girls from Konakovo, but I was the only one who went back to my mother," fol recalled Nina Yakovleva Vishnevskaya later. By then, she had risen through the ranks from foot soldier to sergeant major. On the uniform she wore when Red Star the words and the Great Patriotic War, the words of the second class.
Vishnevskaya was one of the hundreds of thousands of women who served in the Red Army during World War II. According to official Russian figures, there were more than 550 000 women in the army and navy along the years 1941-45. Of these were just over 300,000 in air defense, while about 150,000 fol served in field hospitals, Staffs, leg joints and other military support functions just behind the front line. More than 3000 also served as pilots and ground personnel in the Soviet Air Force. The remainder - about 100 000 women - were front-line soldiers. They served, fol for example, as snipers, machine-gunners, pilots, partisans and tank crews and their work was as hard and dangerous as men's. Nearly 200,000 female Red Army men were decorated and 89 of them received the highest Soviet award, the Soviet Union hero.
If you add all the women who worked at the military hospital longer behind fol the front leads up to a total figure of over a million Soviet women in military uniform. So says the American historian David Glantz.
S ommaren 1942, about a year after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army began in earnest fol to recruit young women to fill the gaps after the huge losses on the battlefield. Prior to this, the Army has been extremely reluctant to accept the women who volunteered for military service. But at the outset numerical disadvantage before the Battle of Stalingrad saw no Soviet military commanders longer able to take account of it.
Recruitment to the Red Army coincided with a bingo promotion for women to armor industries and collective farms - all to mobilize as much social resources as possible for the war. According to the British historian Catherine Merridale was the Soviet authorities' main intention is not to equate men and women. It was hoped that the presence of women in the men's point would get the men to shame, and thus make even greater efforts for the motherland - both at the front and in the factories. But it was also about to incite women to help in the fight against "the fascist beast," as the German invaders were called in propaganda. Women who wanted to fight on the front lines had to start fighting against the Soviet military authorities, fol who consistently wanted to place them in the units behind the front line. It was also behind fol the front as most of them ended up - to replace male leg troops that were needed at the front line.
The female recruits was seen frequently with skepticism by the men in uniform and were subject to patronizing and sexist comments. Nina Yakovleva Vishnevskaya was no exception. "The soldiers, who saw how young we were girls, liked to make fun of us," she recalled later in an interview with Svetlana Aleksi
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