• gift_of_gab@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    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.

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        11 months ago

        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!

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    11 months ago

    No hate for Taylor Swift but she’s not even the baddest bitch on the radio…

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, she’s maybe one of the least malignant of an entire group that desperately needs a French haircut, but she’s still among a group that desperately needs a French haircut.

        A dragon that eats fewer villagers than other dragons still needs to be slain.

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    11 months ago

    She’s a fucking billionaire, damn right she’s a bad bitch, but clearly not in the sense that the OP was thinking.

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    11 months ago

    This might be an unpopular opinion but…

    Fuck Taylor Swift. I’m so tired of seeing her everywhere.

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    11 months ago

    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.

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    11 months ago

    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.

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    11 months ago

    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.