Pavlichenko attained a final kill tally of 309, making her one of the top five deadliest snipers, period. M arch is Women’s History Month, and accordingly, The National Interest ...
To answer that question, we turn to former Sunday Times of London journalist Russell Miller in his 1984 book The Soviet Air ...
In the freezing winter of 1939, the Soviet Union launched an invasion of Finland ... superior knowledge of the terrain, and legendary snipers like Simo Häyhä to inflict devastating losses ...
Like many young people in the Soviet Union at that time ... In very little time she distinguished herself as a fearsome sniper, killing 187 Germans in her first 75 days at war.
was published in the Soviet Union in 1985. It chronicles the everyday lives, emotions and thoughts of more than 500 women who served in the war as snipers, pilots, tank drivers, anti-aircraft ...