Roza Shanina
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Roza Georgiyevna Shanina was a Soviet sniper during World War II who was credited with over 50 kills. Shanina volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941 and chose to be a snip
Shanina in 1944
Shanina in November 1944, wearing a male-issue wool field shirt and woollen skirt. The shirt was khaki, while the skirt was dark blue.
One of Shanina's notebooks
Death notification sent to Shanina's mother by the 205th Separate Medical and Sanitary Battalion.
Red Army
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The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often referred by its shortened name as the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was esta
Roza Shanina
…SFSR, Soviet Union Died 28 January 1945 (aged 20) Near Reichau, East Prussia, Germany Buried Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia Allegiance USSR Branch Red Army Service years 1942–1945 Rank Senior sergeant Unit 184th Rifle Division (3rd Belorussian Front) Commands 1st Sniper Platoon (184th Rifle Division…
Red Guards unit of the Vulkan factory, Petrograd
Leon Trotsky and Demyan Bedny in 1918
Vladimir Lenin, Kliment Voroshilov, Leon Trotsky and soldiers, Petrograd, 1921
Anti-Polish Soviet propaganda poster, 1920