Eager to prove themselves, women served the Red Army as nurses, medics, cooks and clerks—but also as snipers, surgeons, pilots and machine gunners. On June 21, , the day before Nazi Germany sprang its surprise invasion of the Soviet Union, Natalia Peshkova, a year-old Muscovite, graduated from high school with hopes of becoming a journalist. She was a member of the All-Union Leninist Communist League of Youth, or Komsomol, and she immediately ran to its headquarters to volunteer for the war.
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The Soviet armies advancing into East Prussia in January , in huge, long columns, were an extraordinary mixture of modern and medieval: tank troops in padded black helmets, Cossack cavalrymen on shaggy mounts with loot strapped to the saddle, lend-lease Studebakers and Dodges towing light field guns, and then a second echelon in horse-drawn carts. The variety of character among the soldiers was almost as great as that of their military equipment. There were freebooters who drank and raped quite shamelessly, and there were idealistic, austere communists and members of the intelligentsia appalled by such behaviour. Beria and Stalin, back in Moscow, knew perfectly well what was going on from a number of detailed reports. One stated that "many Germans declare that all German women in East Prussia who stayed behind were raped by Red Army soldiers". Numerous examples of gang rape were given - "girls under 18 and old women included".
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Love, Sex, D The article ends with a discussion of pregnancy and its implications. In the course of her service, she would kill 69 enemy soldiers and take command of a sniper platoon 2. Yet after she had been at the front for months, she still remembered her greatest fear while training in an elite all-female sniper school. In an interview with the Commission on the History of the Great Patriotic War in , she recalled:. When I was in training I was dying to get to the front but I was also afraid. I thought that I would be surrounded by men and it would be a hard life, I feared rape and coercion. I was very afraid of this and thought that it could never be — I will leave a girl and return as a girl. I wanted my momma to know that I remained so.
Women in the Russian and Soviet military have played many roles in their country's military history. Women served in the Russian armed forces in small numbers in the early stages of the war, but their numbers increased after heavy Russian losses such as at the Battle of Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes and a need for increased manpower. After the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia in March , she convinced interim prime minister Alexander Kerensky to let her form a women's battalion. The Women's Battalion recruited women between the ages of 13 and 25 and appealed for support in a series of public meetings, enlisting approximately 2, soldiers.
