Soviet Snipers on the Eastern Front

Warfare

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4.5 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In many countries, including Britain, women were banned from taking part in active combat operations during the Second World War. In the Soviet Union, however, declarations of equality meant that as well as having the right to vote and to work in government, women were able to fly on the front lines and become snipers. Lyuba Vinogradova, Russian historian and author, joined Dan to discuss her book Avenging Angels: Soviet women snipers on the Eastern front (1941–45).

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:01.0	Welcome to the History Hit World Wars Podcast, a podcast dedicated to that turbulent period in history between
0:05.3	1914 and 1945.
0:07.3	I'm James Rogers and in this episode, first recorded for Dan Snow's history hit, Dan talks
0:12.0	with Dr. Luba Vinogradova, who is a Russian historian and author, and her latest book is entitled, Avenging Angels, Soviet women snipers on the Eastern Front. This is one hell of a story because Luba managed to track down
0:26.4	and tell the stories of female Soviet snipers from the Second World War, some who were said to have killed as many as 300 in 10 months.
0:36.7	Dan and Luba also talk about the equally fascinating story of Soviet female fighter pilots
0:42.4	who took on Hitler's aces.
0:44.0	This episode is fascinating and it's not one to be missed. Luba thanks so much for coming on the podcast.
1:05.0	Thank you very much for inviting me. It's very very exciting.
1:08.0	Now you deserve to be on this podcast more than anybody because for years you have been the secret weapon for British historians
1:14.9	writing Russian history haven't you just tell me some of the projects that you've worked on as
1:19.9	lead Russian researcher.
1:21.3	Well that is a great exaggeration, I think.
1:26.0	I've mostly just been a working hand.
1:29.0	I'm quite a good translator, so that was handy and of course over the years you do learn to
1:36.8	search for material properly.
1:40.5	My favourite one was probably the book by Martin Cruz Smith
1:45.0	wolves in dogs because we visited all sorts of places in Moscow
1:51.0	where otherwise you'd never go, just in Moscow like oligarchs parties and nightclubs and
1:58.3	God knows what police stations
2:02.0	If we speak about historians, of course, of course my two very favorite people and people
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