Roza Shanina, one of the most beautiful and famous snipers in history, was actually shown as a dangerous killing machine.
According to the records, Roza, who killed 59 people, is thought to have killed more people. Let's take a look at the story of Roza Shanina, who has a life in contrast to her beauty and innocent looks.
Roza Shanina killed 59 Nazi soldiers on the Eastern Front in just 10 months and recorded them all in her diary. She pulled the first trigger in April 1944; She shouted, "I killed a man," and she sobbed with joy, almost ecstatic.
This first murder was the start of a short but legendary career. By year's end, Soviet sniper Roza Shanina was known for her deadly shot and was hailed as the "unseen terror of East Prussia", and although she was no longer seen shooting her target, her reputation had spread tremendously.
Roza was the Soviet Union's first female sniper and was awarded the Medal of Honor for her achievements on the 3rd Belarusian front.
As the war progressed, he began to make a name for herself. So much so that in 1944 a Canadian newspaper described Shanina as "the invisible terror of East Prussia".
Following the start of Operation Bagration, the female snipers were ordered to withdraw from the fronts. But they continued to serve voluntarily. Shanina was one of them.
She then made a special request to be sent to the front line, but this request was denied, she. Shanina disobeyed the order and went to the front.
Although she was punished for this act, she was not court-martialed. She wanted to be included in one of the detachments and always be on the front line.
Like any war story, Shanina's story has prepared its own ending. In the East Prussian Offensive, in which he took part, the Germans had tightened their dominance in the region.
On January 27, Shanina was found seriously injured. According to military reports, he was trying to shield a wounded gunner with her body.
Shanina regained her fame when her diary was published in a book in 1963.
The name She was given to various streets and the primary school he attended was turned into a museum about her.
Roza Shanina was born on April 3, 1924, in the Soviet Union. Her collective farm milkman father was a veteran of the First World War. Roza was eager to continue her education after finishing primary school. She walked a total of 26 kilometers every day to the nearest secondary school in Bereznik.
She was an avid student with an independent spirit, and she was a 14-year-old boy in 1938 when her parents refused her request to attend secondary school and study literature. She ran for 50 hours to the nearest train station, running away from home.
Her school days were over when the Nazis crossed the USSR's western border in June 1941 and broke the non-aggression pact. When Roza heard the news that her brother Mikhail had been killed in a bomb attack in December 1941, she decided to join the war to avenge her death.
Roza Shanina applied to join the army along with tens of thousands of Russian women. While the Soviet military administration initially prohibited women from joining the ranks, they changed their minds as conditions worsened. Roza enrolled in the Female Sniper Academy and graduated with honors around her twentieth birthday in April 1944. She was instantly recognized for her remarkably precise shooting, and the academy begged her to stay as a teacher rather than go to the front, where she risked death. But she didn't listen, and soon after she graduated, she became the commander of the female sniper team.
Three days after her arrival on the western front, Shanina committed her first murder. She later told the press about it. In May of that year, Shanina was awarded the "Order of Glory" as the first female sniper and recognized for her ability to "double-shoot", quickly eliminating two targets in rapid succession.
Shanina seemed to have kept a diary throughout the war. She had written in her diary about matters as personal as the war. So much so that she spoke clearly that she loved someone named Nikolai, but she had no time to think about a union or marriage, for the moment she only served one purpose and could not devote herself to anything else.
Her pen pal Pyotr Molchanov kept Roza Shanina's letters and diaries for 20 years and had them published in 1965.