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Pretty sure that’s Aleksandra Samusenko in the left photo, a different but also rocking tank driver. Another fun fact about her is she met with Joseph Beyrle, a US Army Sergeant that fought with the Soviet’s after escaping from a POW camp.
The actual story is even crazier. She, by herself, funded her own tank and requested it in a letter to Stalin himself, who ordered the building of a tank specifically for her. About 12 times while fighting nazis she got out of her tank while under fire and repaired the tank, got back in and kept killing nazis
My wedding vows will include petitioning the govt for a tank to kill nazis to avenge me, even if nazis had nothing to do with my death.
Thats how i know it’s real
:pit: nooooooooooo that makes you a tankie you can’t just kill nazis with a tank that makes you just as bad as the nazis they were just doing their job
:capabara-tank: :pit:
:pit::stalin-gun-1::t34:
hand of Stalin extending from the frame of a t-34 to destroy nazis :stalin-feels-good:
as foretold in the prophecy
:back-to-me-shining:
I wanna play this game. Reskin some silly COD style game with this woman’s story.
Lol I think the tank has written “воевая подруга” - fighting girlfriend
I’ve heard it translated as war bride as well
I wish modern women would return to tradition and get into a T-34 and run over Nazis with it smh
She mailed stalin personally until he gave her one of her own tanks.
a state that respects posters
waaaay more responsive than my government
smh can’t even get my fuckin bills remailed until the rent is due again, but in the soviet union, angry woman can mail stalin and get a tank in like a week during wartime
It is awesome how many times random people wrote Stalin and got direct responses and policy passed. My man was a poster
theres more than one occasion of this happening?
I am not sure off the top of my head about random civilians, but people not involved in government for sure.
Page 232, letter 77 with Molotov https://archive.org/details/stalinslettersto0000stal/page/232/mode/2up
The writer of “And Quiet Flows the Don” Sholokhov wrote about the conditions and abuses going on in his home region in Ukraine, Stalin sends people to investigate and arrests the two officials accused of abuse. Then requests they send the area an additional 80,000 poods of grain, and 40,000 to 50,000 to a neighboring area.
The extra 40,000 to 50,000 means little to us, but is decisive right now for the populations of these two districts
The footnotes are great and detail the investigation and reprimands.
TBF Stalin liked him a lot, shit talking more strict Socialist Realist writers for lacking the power of his works, and Stalin would help him out when Yezhov was spying on him cause he was fucking his wife, and there is a cute story about him saving a bottle of wine Stalin gave him and opened it on Stalin’s 60th birthday the same day he finished the 4th book in “And Quiet Flows the Don” writing to Stalin thanking him and letting him know he was celebrating him.
Here is Stalin responding to someone giving him their Orders medal
I have received your letter ceding me your second Order as a reward for my work.
I thank you very much for your warm words and comradely present. I know what you are depriving yourself of in my favour and appreciate your sentiments.
Nevertheless, I cannot accept your second Order. I cannot and must not accept it, not only because it can belong only to you, as you alone have earned it, but also because I have been amply rewarded as it is by the attention and respect of the comrades and, consequently, have no right to rob you.
Orders were instituted not for those who are well known as it is, but mainly for heroic people who are little known and who need to be made known to all.
Besides, I must tell you that I already have two Orders. That is more than one needs, I assure you.
I apologise for the delay in replying.
With communist greetings,
J. Stalin
P.S. I am returning the Order to where it belongs.
J. Stalin
somebody should make a West Wing style TV show about Stalin.
Can someone explain to me how the tank deal worked? I’m looking at the wikipedia article about her and I have no idea what this means:
After her husband was killed fighting in 1941, Oktyabrskaya sold her possessions to donate a tank for the war effort
did she give money to the government to pay for one tank on an assembly line somewhere?
IIRC it was largely symbolic because what she had didn’t come close to paying for a T-34, but they were willing to let her sign up regardless.
Brief googling, she paid for more than a third of a T-34.
She wrote to Stalin personally to give her a tank for that money, which he obliged.
“My husband was killed in action defending the motherland. I want revenge on the fascist dogs for his death and for the death of Soviet people tortured by the fascist barbarians. For this purpose I’ve deposited all my personal savings – 50,000 rubles – to the National Bank in order to build a tank. I kindly ask to name the tank ‘Fighting Girlfriend’ and to send me to the frontline as a driver of said tank.”
Hell yeah
