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Members of Russia's "Battalion of Death". Recruited in 1917 by special permission of the Provisional Government, this all-woman unit of the Russian Army was organized to show that women, too, could fight and die for their fatherland. They were also sent to the front to humiliate the men and increase their will to fight the Germans.
Photo: The Imperial War Museum |
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