In the 80s of the 20th century, there was a Chinese movie called "War Makes Women Go Away", which was very popular. Of course, the war should let women go away, but in fact, from the earliest Hua Mulan to join the army for her father, and now the Ukrainian female soldiers participating in the war, the war has never made women go away and cannot go away.
As early as the 4th century AD, female soldiers appeared in the ancient Greek army. During the First World War, Britain recruited as many as 100,000 female soldiers, mainly in transport services and field care. During the Second World War, the number of female soldiers skyrocketed, with 220,000 to 230,000 women in the United Kingdom, 450,000 to 500,000 women in the United States, and 500,000 women in Germany.
The largest number is in the Soviet Union, with as many as 1 million, and the age of joining the army is generally young, basically between 15 and 30 years old. Like the men, they charged the front line, tankmen, infantrymen, submachine gunners, snipers, whatever the men were capable of, they were just as capable.
Soviet women soldiers were especially brave, which was associated with the Slavic "fighting nation" gene. The Russian historian Karamsin once spoke highly of the ** female soldier: "Slavic women often fought side by side with their fathers and husbands, and were not afraid of death. As early as 626 AD, during the fierce battle of the Great Siege of Constantinople, the Greeks found a large number of female corpses among the Slavs who had died in battle. Slavic mothers gave birth to children in order to raise warriors. ”
Lenin believed that the Soviet Union should pay attention to the role of working women. The People's Commissar of the USSR Ministry of Defense Valosrov once said: "Now it is time for women to be prepared, especially in times of war, when women are needed in many ways." ”
For the Soviet Union, there has never been a "patriarchal" ideology, and women have always been able to hold up half the sky. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Soviet women soldiers have become the backbone of the defense against fascism. In the USSR, it was not the war that drove women away, but the war that could not do without women.
The Great Patriotic War was fought for four years, and during these four years, the Soviet Union conscripted more than 100,000 female soldiers, 70% of whom served as the main force in various units, and nearly 80,000 female soldiers became senior Soviet officers, as well as heroic pilots and snipers. There is a classic war film in the Soviet Union, "Female Sniper", which tells the story of a goddess gunman.
But the war was so tragic and cruel that more than 500,000 Soviet women died in the war, either on the battlefield in the rain of bullets, or after being captured by the Germans, many died before they could even leave their names.
Belarusian female writer and journalist Alekseevich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote the non-fiction literature "I Am a Female Soldier and a Woman", which describes the story of Soviet female soldiers who sacrificed their lives to defend their families and countries during World War II. In this article, we extract some of the best stories for readers.
Alekseevich describes such a scene in the book:
After a group of Soviet women soldiers in military uniforms entered Berlin, they went to a public toilet on the side of the road, and their actions frightened the German women who were using the toilet at the time, shouting at the Soviet women soldiers and shouting for the police.
GIs are in!”
When the police arrived, the German women found out that it was a misunderstanding. These female soldiers with shaved hair are too much like men in appearance, almost no different from men.
Morozhona was one of the millions of female soldiers in the Soviet Union, and she was both lucky and unlucky.
When the war broke out, Morodona was an 18-year-old village girl with long braids, and she and her friends signed up for a Selective Service board training class to practice live Xi shooting and grenade throwing. In this class of 40 women, there are 4 girls from her village, all of whom are best friends, and 5 girls from the neighboring village.
The fascists approached Moscow, and they went to the front. After obtaining consent, a train pulls them to a distant and strange place, and instead of directly participating in the war, they continue to a women's shooting squad for urgent training, where they are to be trained to become snipers. Morozhona soon graduated with honors.
Then they went to the front and were assigned to the 62nd Infantry Division stationed in the Orsha area, and the division commander, Colonel Porotkin, was furious about their arrival and didn't buy it at all: "Isn't this a little girl who doesn't want to give it to me?"This is a place where wars are fought, not places where singing and dancing ......”
The next day, the division commander asked them to show their shooting skills and concealment skills, and found that their marksmanship and concealment ability were better than those of male snipers. The teacher was surprised and began to look at them with admiration.
Morozlona's partner is called Kozlova, on the first day of "hunting", just after hiding, the Germans were spotted, Kozlova stabbed Morozlova, "Shoot, shoot, isn't that German?".”
The two quarreled over the division of labor, and after arguing for a while, Morozona felt that if the dispute continued, she would lose the opportunity, so she decided to shoot. But just as she was aiming and about to pull the trigger, a thought flashed through her mind: "Although it is an enemy, after all, it is a living person!."”
As soon as this thought came to her, Morozona's hands couldn't help but tremble, and her whole body trembled with it, and at the same time, she felt a strong fear. Fortunately, she quickly controlled herself and overcame her fear, pulled the trigger, and the German devil shook and fell. After the shot, she trembled again, even more than before.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for Morozhona to completely overcome her discomfort and fear, and one by one German devils fell under her gun. Everyone is shot in the head and killed with one shot. She was indifferent to their deaths.
They were all in pairs, lying motionless in their positions from morning to night, their arms numb, their eyes sore and watery, and their whole bodies unconscious. Spring is the hardest, the snow is constantly melting under the body, and the whole person is almost immersed in water, which is ice, and the pain and discomfort are indescribable.
Not only do they lie in ambush in the snow, but they also have to climb trees, lie on sheds or ruined rooftops, for at least 12 hours, sometimes longer. The distance between them and the enemy is usually about seven or eight hundred meters, sometimes only 500 meters, and they can even be heard talking and laughing in the early morning.
When she came back from the front, Morozona, who was only 21 years old, had completely white hair, and she looked very old, like a little old lady with gray hair. However, she grew 10 centimeters taller during the war and really grew in battle. Morozona was seriously injured, had a severe brain **, and had poor hearing. Her brother died on the front line.
The mother hugged her daughter and wept bitterly: "Whether you give birth to a child or a daughter, it is all the same now." However, he (the son) is a man in the end and has an obligation to defend the motherland, while you are a girl. I'm always praying to God that it's better to *** than to hurt you. I had to go to the train station every day to wait for the train, and once I saw a female soldier who was burned and broken, and I shuddered suddenly, thinking it was you!Later, people prayed for that girl. ”
Morozona felt that even if you could come back alive from the battlefield, your soul would be hurt, and it didn't matter if you hurt your arms and legs, but if you hurt your heart, the damage would be too great.
There was a mining farm near Morodona's house, which somehow always blasted at night. When she first came home, as soon as the cannon sounded, she reflexively jumped out of bed, grabbed her coat and rushed out, running anywhere. At this time, the mother grabbed her, hugged her tightly, and coaxed her like a child: Sleep, sleep, the war is over, you have gone home......
There is no doubt that Morozona's soul was also injured.