NO RUSSIAN AMAZONS?
HE other week, the Russians made a statement about Russian women in war. According to "Time," it was true. Broadcasting from Washington, Mme. Constantine Oumansky, wife of the Soviet Ambassador to the U\S., flatly denied that women were fighting in the Red Army. This was no propaganda ghostlaying. All women who are attached to the Red Army are technicians, radio operators, cooks, messengers, engineers, ee ee
oo. drivers-and are no more formidable than Britain’ss WATS, WAAFS and WRENS, who do exactly the same jobs, and who also wear uniforms. There are no female combat privates in the Red Army, Nazi statements to the contrary. A few young women have been admitted as sharpshooters into OSOAVIAKHIM, Russia’s Home Guard. Aside from them, any fire-spitting Amazons captured by the Germans are operating strictly on their own. °
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 123, 31 October 1941, Page 42
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137NO RUSSIAN AMAZONS? New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 123, 31 October 1941, Page 42
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