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In March, 1942 a Central Women’s School of Sniper Training was established in Vishniaki, a village 8.7 miles outside Moscow. The school recruited women aged 18-26, physically fit, with at least seven years of education. School Director was Nora P. Chegodayeva, a graduate of the famous Frunze Military Academy who had fought as a communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. By the end of the war, the school graduated 1,885 snipers and instructors. Battle Of Stalingrad, Russian Fighter, Combat Medic, Belle Blonde, Colorized Photos, Soviet Army, Military Academy, Female Soldier, Military Women

Color images of the Russian Empire in Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii’s gorgeous photos, the goofy Romanovs and Olga Shirnina stirring colorized pictures of Russians in World War 1 take us back. In this gallery we see Olga’s work on photographs from World War 2. See more of Olga Shirnina’s work on her website.

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Although the photograph speaks for itself, context is still necessary in order to understand all the circumstances surrounding it and the gravity of it. In the image captured, a woman is seen to be openly harassed by two Soviet soldiers, near the West Hall section of the Leipzig Hauptbahnhof central railway terminus. Sadly, it was not an isolated incident - the mass rapes took place in the occupied German territory during and after the war. The act of rape, as per historians, is oftentimes…

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