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Old 02-22-2005, 01:58 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Thoughts on those Black Widows?
More propaganda than reality. The reality is that for every one of them, there were 10 dead women trying to make the team but then the same goes for every other military occupation in the Red Army then.

It was attrition, pure and simple. Those good enough and lucky enough lived long enough to have their stories published.

However, not one of them or all of them combined stopped the Wehrmacht from conducting combat operations.
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