Roza Shanina, The Kiss Of Death

A heroic assassin who fights against Nazi forces at the height of World War II

The actual numbers of how many women served in World War II are controversial.

It ranges from 500,000 to 800,000 women.

Some of the roles they took on were: pilots, scouts, commanders, gunners, doctors and nurses, mechanics, drivers, cryptographers — coding and decoding messages, and, of course, snipers.

Most of them were young.

They came from all over the Soviet Union.

The Red Army recruited them by the thousands in World War II to use them as snipers: they were to aim their guns in the distance and blow the brains out of enemy soldiers.

That was their mission, the job they were meticulously prepared for, although they killed Nazis who had invaded and devastated their country. Many achieved long lists of victims, and some even enjoyed it; practically none of them did fall apart and cried the first time when they hit a human being with their weapon.

Nor was one of them, surrounded by a great mass of sexually hungry comrades, spared from having to endure the harassment and abuse of their mostly drunken male commanders and comrades: a real fight on two fronts.