Portraits of women of the Red Army
When the USSR is invaded by Nazi Germany and that immediately arises the question of its survival, the mobilization of women, it does not make problems as in democracy. The revolutionary principle and policy of equality of women’s rights and rights having been affirmed by the Bolshevik revolution. This mobilization of women in the USSR at war was so massive, in the war effort as in the fight, so that, unlike democratic countries, it has not the object of intense propaganda and it is paradoxical. Women represented nearly 9% of the workforce in the Red Army, 40% of the personnel Infantry medical was female. In fact nearly a million women would have fought in the Red Army.
During this conflict, many women distinguished themselves in fighting units - infantry or airwomen.
In aviation:
Faced with catastrophic losses suffered by the VVS (Air Force Soviet Union) during the summer of 1941 following Operation Barbarossa, Stalin asked one of his best aviators, Marina Raskova, to Establish three female pilot regiments. Soviet women in fact occupy almost all the same positions men’s combat. They are even quite unique case in this war, three exclusively female aviation regiments, of the Engineer to the pilot of bomber or fighter aircraft. Far from the figuration, these women fight gloriously on all fronts and many of them are decorated with the supreme order of heroes of the Soviet Union.
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Women Snipers:
During the Second World War, there were several thousand Female snipers in the Soviet Army.
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The place of Russian women in industry during the war:
The Soviet woman, according to the very principles of Marxism-Leninism, is considered a full citizen. She won the right to vote in 1918. Abortion is free and free, divorce, an administrative formality may also be a reality with 10% of marriages thus broken before the war. Education up to the university level, in no case excludes girls. This feminism, for many leaders, even went too far and the "family code" instituted in 1936, exalting a "socialist maternity", abolished free abortion and complicated the modalities of divorce. Certainly this promotion of women is relative, so in spite of equality theoretical and by definition communist, their salaries are there too lower than those of men, and the jobs held are quite often subordinate.
Nevertheless, when the war comes, the Soviet woman is politically, socially and psychologically better suited than other countries at war to mobilize economically and militarily.
But it is the Soviet women who go in proportion to the men contribute to the war effort, in the industry 15% in 1939 they increase to 52% in 1942, in agriculture on the same dates from 52% to 71%. Thus a propaganda poster of a kolkozian perched on a huge agricultural tractors, only translate a reality. In plants as in the fields , it’s very hard and all the more trying that the famine was terrible ( Ukraine , granary has wheat in hand of Germans since autumn 41) making the USSR the country that suffered the more privations in the world at war.
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Not only doctors, they were ...But they deserve all the credit, no less than men, for their heroism, stoicism and the sacrifice.
