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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 18, 1940
RED AMAZONS
Women are fighting side by side with | Checking current statistics, they dis- men in Russia's war. They are sharp- | covered 13,000 mipers, 6,000 women shooting, flying Soviet bombers and air defence experts accustomed to fighter planes, launching gas barrages handling A. A. guns and searchlights, In the winter twilight of the North 1,000 horsewomen and 25,000 nurses. and staging parachute attacks in This was not good enough. A flood broke over Russian Karelia-manoeuvres which, inciden- of propaganda tally, prove more spectacular than femininity which still clung to cooking successful.
and children. Were women to have nothing better than sewing machines while their menfolk had machine guns? Were they to busy themselves with charity when they were needed side by side to face the enemy?
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At many points on the Front where the Russian troops have shown reluctance to attack women army officers have been sent up the line to shame the men-hardened Joans of Arc whose angels speak from the Kremlin.
In Estonia many Red Army units In and batteries are led by women. Poland women troops are moving in to help restore the wrecked industrial regions by the Stakhanovite system.
Perhaps it is scarcely surprising to find women transformed into Stalin's soldiers. Russia's resourceful-and, have as some think, hapless-Eves long startled the world by the extent of their emancipation.
In Moscow women even clean the streets. In the dreary world beyond Leningrad I have seen them navvying on the roads with pick and shovel,
-By- HAROLD A. ALBERT
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Unwilling to have combatant wo- men at first, Voroshilov clearly soft- pedalled the idea. He did not see the purpose women might serve in sham- ing men into more dashing warfare. A Wives' Movement, pledged to re- love mind women of their need for and a home, rallied against war for women, but has faded out recently.
Willy-nilly, girls as well as boys now have to pass tests in three mill- tary subjects during school examina- tions.
According to latest figures, there are 460,000 women snipers, 120,000 women aviators and aircraft me- of thousands chanics, and hundreds more listed as land-girls with military training.
While the men exchange tractors for tanks a huge body of women take over Soviet food production. But girls of between 18 and 20 are also taking tank corps instruction, and parachutist schools are actually staff- ed by women.
If it is astonishing to see the Moscow women's flying corps marching past during a Moscow Labour Day parade -lovelies with cropped hair and curt breeches filing between lines of white- coated policewomen-it is even more staggering to see one of the feminine parachute "suicide legions" lining up
carrying rails under the orders of railway foreman, working the clock round in builders' yards, mending furnaces, even mining conl in the Donetz Basin throwing it behind them from the coal face, loading coal into, for a show. trucks, sorting and grading.
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Two stream-lined, steel-nerved Soviet girls, Anna Shismareva and Galina Platetskaya, hold the women's world record for jumping from a height of 7,923 metres without oxygen equipment.
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Under the Pioneers youth move- ment, girls between eight and 16 can be enrolled for similar instruction, and indeed must be when they become liable for what army officials glibly call "pre-conscription training."
In the children's infantry regiments of Moscow and Leningrad girl up to 16 are accepted as well as boys-much to the discomfiture of the boys.
Two other women, Lyuba Berlin and
delayed action as friendly rivals in jumps. Unfortunately, they-- carried~- their rivalry too far in the long run, and pulled their rip-cords too late to defer a crash to earth.
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One woman veteran, Llusa Savchen- ko, boasts a record of 60 jumps. An- other went into arduous training for a long-distance descent, taking place day by day within a baro-cam- era, training her lungs to use a mini- mum of oxygen, but has since found herself destined for motherhood and has postponed-mark you, not aban- doned-the attempt.
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No fewer than 2,500,000 women are enrolled in the Chemical Defence League.
From tram driving, the All are trained in gas de- fence, but many are also trained in woman can easily switch to Army gas attack-mustard gas, phosgene and transport. She is armed, holds tear gas figuring among the "irritants" | marksmanship star, and is confident they can handle.
of being able to defend her lorry if
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"Adepts with bombs,” as Voroshilov said of his modern Amazons, "superb snipers, skilled for higher service in Russia's women military strategy."
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In 1934-1,500 wives of Soviet Army | attacked. officers, taking their cue from official expressions of opinion which had al- ready made their duty clear, gathered in the Kremlin to discuss schemes for increasing the efficiency of the U.S.S.R. women's army.
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fighters add yet another chapter the strangeness of modern warfare.
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