The Deadly Soviet Women Snipers Who Terrorized the Nazis
Sniper Lyuba Makarova on the Kalinin front (1943) IMAGE: OZERKSY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Soviet men and women sprang to join the army to defend their country. Most women enlisted as nurses, clerks, and cooks. Some of them trained to become deadly badass snipers. These women, around 2000 … Read more