Women’s History Month Lecture – The Soviet Female Snipers of World War II
Women’s History Month Lecture – The Soviet Female Snipers of World War II
Speaker - Susan Grunewald, History Department, Louisiana State UniversityAfter the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, thousands of women volunteered to join the Red Army. Although at first turned away or encouraged to join the medical corps, women eventually won Soviet officials’ approval to take a more active role in combat after […]