The deadly Soviet women snipers that terrorized Nazis

Jul 30 2016 by Mashable

 

1943

Sniper Lyuba Makarova on the Kalinin front.

Image: Ozerksy/AFP/Getty Images

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, hundreds of thousands of Soviet women sprang to join the war effort, enlisting as nurses, clerks, cooks — and snipers.

Over 2000 women were trained as sharpshooters and deployed to some of the most dangerous battlegrounds, far from their companies and required to lie still for hours to avoid detection and await the perfect shot.

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