Posted on 07/21/2020 12:46:30 AM PDT by LibWhacker
I’d be interested in an outline of your view of WW2 history, especially Russian actions against US Allies or describing 1940 as “late in the war”.
Sure they did - when they invaded the Baltic countries and half of Poland in conjunction with Germany’s seizure of the western half.
When the war started in September, the only invaded country on your list that was an Allied power were the Poles. The only Balkan nation to join after that was Yugoslavia. Then Greece, but I don’t consider them a Balkan state.
But that said, Miss Pavlichenko did not participate in that part of the war and didn’t enlist until Germany invaded the USSR so none of her kills were of Allied troops.
Her spiritual (and perhaps actual lineal) granddaughters haven’t forgotten that there may come a day where every man and woman will again need to fight in defense of their homeland. Something we should probably be teaching our kids in the US but don’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxjYfl05ek
Male and female Russian freshman and sophomore high school students demonstrate their abilities in field stripping and assembling their national infantry rifle.
Technically, by the time the US finally entered the war in December 1941, Russia was already part of the Allies...
You should be skeptical of anything the Soviets put out, especially something that would serve well as propaganda.
Evidently, she became an alcoholic and died in her late 50’s from a stroke.
Speaking of Russian female snipers: I recall memoirs of a German (male) sniper who fought the war on the Russian front from 1941 to 1945 and ended up in Russian prison for several years as a POW. He presented a story of a group of Russian female snipers who where ordered to hide in trees and attack Germans from the above. While successful in the beginning of the firefight, they were all killed once the Germans realized that the young ladies can’t change their positions and picked them off one by one. Soviet commanders sent those girls to a sure death without any hesitation.
Hence my statement” no free lunches for the Dogs of War”.
The adage of “you eat what you kill” applies in many ways, psychologically, to many bloodied warriors. But for God’s Grace(Jesus the Christ), there go I.
I have known so many good men who served well, but couldn’t survive as well as they served.
I also know of many who served with honor, but not in combat roles even though deployed, who seem to be in panic mode a lot while bloodied warriors have been able to stay focused on the front sight. And many of those who lost that target focus as well.
My faith and family are my azimuth check.
Now this portrayal of a Russian female sniper makes sense. Subject matter was somewhat celebrated back then. Saw Doughgirls (1944)last weekend, and actress Eve Arden played a Russian sniper famous for how many Nazies she shot.
Fwiw, I’m old, old, now but when I was in HS we had/maintained/fired M1 Garand rifles at our private school & the school had a rifle team that actively competed with other schools.
(The public schools in our district also closed the schools for the first days of deer/duck season, too.)
A BETTER/more intelligent time, IMO.
Yours, TMN78247
The US Press was just as SHALLOW & BRAINLESS then as it is now, too.= The “average reporter” is a DUNCE, imo.
Yours, TMN78247
Fwiw, her daughter Lara told me about her “post-war emotional problems”, heavy drinking & guilt about the slaughter during WWII. Her reaction sounded to me like what we now call PTSD.
(Many veterans of WWII suffered from that malady.- For example, my Uncle Josh was never “really OK” after living with what he had done on orders in the CBI during WWII, where he was awarded the SS & 2 BS for valor in action.)
Yours, TMN78247
I wonder what effect that had on getting opening days moved to Saturdays.
They did that to male snipers as well. They didn’t have a choice while the Germans were still advancing - they unapologetically threw bodies at the Wehrmacht to trade for time.
Male Japanese snipers would end up with the same fate on Pacific islands, for the same reasons.
“Lady Death” Like that.
Look up
“Girl with Red Hair”
Hannie
Eh... It was better in many ways, yet much worse in others. We had some of the administrators who were around back then, but who were finishing out their careers when I went to school in the 80s and 90s. They weren’t great.
I referred to the Baltic, not Balkan states; the USSR invaded them in 1939 and two of their three presidents died in gulags (Estonia and Latvia).
None of the Baltic states were signed up to the pact in 1939 either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II
Sure - but the same “allies” that declared war against Germany for invading Poland in 1939 should have declared war against the Soviet Union (for the exact same reason) - and didn’t.
What a hoax...
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