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I want to include how she died, as it showed just how courageous she really was:
Two months later, on 17 January 1944, Oktyabrskaya fought in another night attack. The battle would prove to be her last. The attack took place at the village of Krynki near Vitebsk. During the battle, she drove her T-34 about the German defenses, and destroyed resistance in trenches and machine-gun nests. The tank crew also destroyed a German self-propelled gun. Subsequently, the tank was hit by a German anti-tank shell, again in the tracks, and was immobilized. Oktyabrskaya immediately got out of the tank and began to repair the track, amid fierce small arms and artillery fire. She managed to repair the track, but she was hit in the head by shell fragments and lost consciousness. After the battle, she was transported to a Soviet military field hospital at Fastiv, near Kiev, and then to a military hospital in Smolensk, Russia. She remained in a coma for two months before finally dying on 15 March. She was buried with military honors at the Heroes Remembrance Gardens in Smolensk.
As well as this gem:
In 2014 US National Public Radio featured a cartoon of Oktyabrskaya to headline a story about “rejected princesses” that Disney and other storytellers had hitherto ignored.
I’ve got a copy of the book of rejected princesses!
That’s fantastic, and this book is amazing!
Meet Osh-Tisch, whose name translates to “Finds Them and Kills Them” in Crow. Osh-Tisch was an assigned-male-at-birth woman and was one of the last of the Crow Nation baté (Two Spirit spiritual leaders [what’s a Two Spirit?])—oh, and you can be sure, she earned her name.
Thank you so much for sharing this, it seems there are three books and I’m going to buy all of them!
Taylor “dont track my billionaire plane” Swift. She’s out of touch unfortunately.
What about the “Lady Death” a.k.a. the “Russian Bitch from Hell”?
She was initially assigned to digging trenches and communication routes, armed with a single RGD-33 grenade due to weapons shortages. In the second half of July 1941, a comrade was severely injured by shrapnel and handed her his Mosin–Nagant model 1891 bolt-action rifle. On 8 August 1941 Lyudmila experienced her debut as a wartime sniper when she killed two Nazi officers in Biliaivka at a distance of 400 metres.
When the Nazis and their Romanian allies overran Odessa on 15 October 1941, her unit was withdrawn by sea to Sevastopol, on the Crimean Peninsula, to fight in the siege of Sevastopol. There, she trained other snipers, who were credited with killing over 100 Axis soldiers during the battle. In May 1942, newly promoted Lieutenant Pavlichenko was cited by the Southern Army Council for killing 257 Axis soldiers. The number of soldiers Pavlichenko is credited with killing during World War II was 309, including 36 Axis snipers.
In June 1942, Pavlichenko was hit in the face with shrapnel from a mortar shell. When she was injured, the Soviet High Command ordered for her to be evacuated from Sevastopol via submarine.
She spent around a month in the hospital. Once she had recovered from her injuries, instead of being sent back to the front, she became a propagandist for the Red Army, where she was nicknamed “Lady Death.” (The Germans called her “the Russian bitch from hell.”) She also trained snipers for combat duty until the end of the war in 1945.
Or Major Marina Raskova, who formed the 588th night bomber regiment, the “Night Witches”.
Find a woman who loves you enough to kill Nazis for you. <3
I’d kill nazis without love at all.
Shame, you could use some love for killing Nazis, it makes the society a better place if everyone can work the work they love to do.
❤️ Thank you Evil_Shrubbery ❤️
Idk as an AroAce the only love I need is my love for killing Nazis
This might be an unpopular opinion but…
Fuck Taylor Swift. I’m so tired of seeing her everywhere.
I don’t think wanting to fuck Taylor Swift is such unpopular an opinion…
So unpopular lmao
It isn’t as popular as it should be. Hollow pop culture is a disease. Especially when weird pop culture cult figures shovel their cult followers into genocidal/imperial politics with political endorsements, that’s the one that really gets me. People die.
TL;DR Letting celebrities of any stature dictate your direction in life/morals is fucking weird.
I’m a T-Swizzle fan. Her song lyrics “Anti-Hero” legit spoke to me on a weirdly personal level.
I still think that the worship of her is bizarre. When she publicly endorsed Biden/Harris, it was cool in a “Oh hey, this person that I like is on the correct side of history” kinda way. But the people who suddenly registered to vote because of it? That gave me a really weird/gross feeling.
Pretty much anyone who makes large (possibly life altering) decisions based off what a celebrity does gives me SUCH weird vibes. Its, for lack of a better word, cult-adjacent. And that phenomenon is a small part of why I’m so staunchly pro-public education.
That was not the correct side of history. The entire bipartisan political establishment in the U.S. is on the wrong side of history. That was my point. This political system is the center of a genocidal global empire and media figures and celebrities buy into fame in exchange for socially normalizing it to their followers.
More than half of the things I see about Taylor is people hating on her. If you really think she doesn’t deserve attention, don’t give her attention??
I am not giving her attention as an artist. I am describing the problem with pop culture figures enabling genocide and imperialism, and her actions doing so. It’s nonsense to say that if you have an ethical problem with what someone is doing, you shouldn’t talk about them - I could name a thousand politicians you’d never apply that logic to.
This has never not been a thing. Like people got so pumped for Franz Lizt playing the bugs bunny song in concert that it was literally classified as an illness.
At what level of fame do you believe a person loses the right to state their political opinion? Local TV star? Mid-range touring band leader? Or do they need to reach a certain social media following before their political opinions shouldn’t be heard?
I think I was very clear when I said the problem is HARMFUL political ideologies being promoted. “Genocidal, imperial politics” was the term I used.
https://www.dw.com/en/hitlers-chosen-artists-walked-fine-line-between-art-and-politics/a-1051153
Sure, but don’t invite the wrath of the swifties…
I’d also submit La Maupin.
Wow, she needs a movie.
Hard agree.
Came here to say the same thing.
“Be gay, do crime.” - La Maupin
There’s also literally any of the Night Witches on the Soviet side. I would include Joan of Arc, Captain Grace Hopper, Clara Maass, Ada Lovelace… basically any woman who actually did something.
In Iraq our guys responded to a supply convoy taking fire. Their commander, was standing in the open calmly firing her pistol and directing her drivers in an effective defense.
Or to use a non military example just walk into any fire fighting station with women on staff.
Offense*
Taylor doesn’t even sing her own songs, for those $5,000 concert tickets.
Next your going to tell me there are actors that don’t even write and direct their own movies! When will this senseless collaboration cease!?
ETA: $5k for a ticket is outrageous and absurd to be fair. And Taylor isn’t a “bad bitch” nor an enjoyable act imho.
If I go to a concert, I expect to hear the singers singing and instruments playing live, not miming to a recorded track. I know that Taylor writes, or is at least involved in creating, her songs, and I respect her determination to own the music she created.
The concert tour, however, is an expensive fraud. And if you talk to professional singers, they will tell you that it is ridiculous to expect anyone to sing for so long, so frequently. The human voice just can’t maintain that.
Lol, okay buddy, I get that you have a very strong opinion on this. And that I’m in the minority of folks when I say I don’t really care. But I just don’t agree that it is “expensive fraud”. It’s an entertainment production. EDM artists, for example, are always being called frauds because they “just play their laptops”, but folks still go to it for the experience and enjoy it. Movies were considered “less than Broadway” for much the same reasons.
I get that Taylor’s show creates the illusion of her singing the songs, and that offends you because it is just an illusion. But folks are paying for the event. You aren’t getting upset over her using stage makeup and effects, nor the myriad other ways in which the production creates “spectacle through illusions”.
If you want to go see someone impress you with their talent, that’s cool. People being good at things is super fun to watch. I just get tired of the whole “purity of the art” argument. Sometimes things can just be fun without a catch.
But I get that is just like “my opinion man”.
I get that Taylor’s show creates the illusion of her singing the songs, and that offends you because it is just an illusion. But folks are paying for the event. You aren’t getting upset over her using stage makeup and effects, nor the myriad other ways in which the production creates “spectacle through illusions”.
Swift is a singer and the main point is to hear her singing. The other stuff is to enhance the overall experience, but if she cannot deliver on the main attraction then I would consider that fraudulent if there was the expectation to hear her singing live. You’re right, though, most people paying thousands for tickets to her show only care about the event i.e. being there.
Eh, guess we have different expectations. I see the main point, the “art” of the situation, to be the spectacle of the event. But I can definitely see your point. People definitely do leave her shows thinking they heard her sing, and some would be quite disappointed to learn otherwise.
Anyway, now I’ve got an urge to find a concert tonight, so thanks for that! Have a good one.
No, but they do act. Which is their job.
Fair, and Taylor’s job is to bounce around on stage and hype up a crowd while lip syncing to music she sometimes writes. And much like the point of movies, the end goal of all of it is to put on a production that entertains the audience.
while lip syncing
yeah, the AI stuff probably has more soul.
Lol, that’s a take on the Turing test I hadn’t considered before.
I don’t necessarily disagree with Taylor in particular, just flagging the incorrect comparison.
If we say “she’s a performance brand, not a musician” then it just means people are paying a shitton of money to be in the same room as her vs paying for actual talent-based performance.
Arent K-pop idols the same? The most popular musicians that focus on face than genre always have ghostwriters anyway
It’s not too surprising that Taylor does it. Far more shocking to me was proof (on the same YouTube channel) that Cliff Richard and Roger Waters also lip sync and have been doing it for many years.
bitch are you for real?
For 5k, I expect her to fuck me personally after the show, while she sings an encore.
But I assume the saudi prince money is a bit more than 5k
In the Saigon women’s museum I read about a older lady who would create mines from unexploded US ordinance and blow up US tanks with them. That’s pretty badass.
My favorite Filipino badass.
Nieves Fernandez
Nieves Fernandez, a school teacher-turned-Huk commander from Leyte, showing an American soldier how to kill Japanese soldiers with a bolo (Photo by Stanley Troutman courtesy of reddit.com) Nieves Fernandez is one of the lesser known Filipina guerrilla leaders. She is recorded by her peers and the local communities of Tacloban on the island of Leyte, as a simple Filipina school teacher who defended her homelands from the imperialist Japanese forces the moment her students were threatened to be taken away by Japanese soldiers. She was a skilled marksman and bolo fighter. Fernandez would gain the respect of native locals, lead men into battle, and was so successful in taking out Japanese patrols that the Japanese military stationed in the city, Tacloban, placed a 10,000 peso bounty on her head. Fernandez like many other guerrillas throughout the Philippines relied on makeshift weapons such as the “paltik” (a homemade shotgun made of gas pipes), bolos, homemade grenades (casings filled with old nails) and whatever items her 110 manned guerrilla unit could pilfer from the Japanese. Fernandez would live to be in her early nineties residing in Tacloban and would be survived by her sons and grandchildren. The only evidence of her heroics that survive remain in one photo (as displayed previously) and through a small 1944 American newspaper article depicting her guerrilla contributions prior to the arrival of MacArthur at Leyte.
Shit, if that’s not love then I don’t know what is.
We need her again.
Damn. That is a bad bitch.
Shiii legend
