The feat of women in wartime

About women in the war. They say that war is no place for women, but when war comes, no one can hide from it. For women it was even harder than for men. After all, they are designed by nature to give life, and not to take it away. The women went to the front. Women were drafted into the air defense and communications troops, and into medical institutions. They were nurses, nurses, snipers, signalmen. 3 air regiments were formed from women. One regiment was commanded by Maria Raskova. She became a Hero of the Soviet Union. Women participated in all the decisive battles of our army. They also participated in partisan movements.

There would be no Victory without women...

We will always remember the names of Z. Kosmodemyanskaya, V. Khoruzhey, E. Chaikina, N. Kovshova, N. Polivanova and many others. During the war years, a large number of women worked in the rear. Success at the front depended on their work. In factories, men have been replaced by women. Even pensioners and high school students stood by the machines.

Women worked both in agriculture and in leadership positions. In the field of medicine, women were in the majority. They raised funds for the front, took care of the families of those who went to the front, of children who had lost their parents. In the rear, women performed no less a feat than men at the front. After the liberation of the country from the Germans, women participated in the rebuilding of cities.

Orders and medals were awarded to more than 250 thousand women, many received the high title of Heroes of Labor.

Each of the women had her own way to the war, but they all wanted to defend their homeland.

They went to war cheerfully, laughed and sang songs. Because they were very young and did not know what war was. They were ready for a feat, but did not know what an army was. It was not easy for them to get used to the army. One of these girls was Zinochka Frolova. Her family was completely ordinary - her mother was a worker, her father was a machine operator and her younger sister Tanya. When she was 13, the family moved to Uzbekistan. She was finishing night school because she was already working.

Then the war began. She and her friends rushed to the front as volunteers. They weren't taken. Then Zina and her friends applied to the regional military enlistment office. In May 42, they received summons. The girls ended up in Samarkand. The Voronezh military communications school was evacuated there. At first they mastered Morse code, then they were transferred to Chita, but they really wanted to go to the front.

Finally, Zina and her friend were transferred to the communications regiment of the Trans-Baikal Front. Before leaving, they were warned that the conditions there were almost front-line and a very strict foreman, Frolov. Leaving, Zina did not know that this foreman would become her husband after the war. Severe soldier everyday life began, it was hard even for the guys, and then the girls. But they did not complain, but rushed to the front, into battle. They served combat active communications, they had to work in two shifts. For good service, Zina was awarded the "Excellent signalman" badge.

She never made it to the front. After Victory Day , their regiment was transferred to the border with Japan. After the war with Japan, she continued to serve in the army.

In extreme conditions, women turned out to be stronger and more resilient than men. But even in the war, women remained themselves and tried to create comfort. In addition to the front, the war had another face - concentration camps. Katya Tretyakova visited one of these camps. She was 8 years old when she and other children from the Lipetsk region were taken to Germany to the Shterkrade concentration camp.

At first, even her father did not know about her fate. Returning from the front, he was looking for his family. In the camp, the girl lived behind barbed wire. They were very poorly fed and forced to work. In 1945 they were driven into the forest. At this time, Russian soldiers appeared and freed the captives. She survived. And returned to a peaceful life.

It is difficult for us now to understand what the women of the war years had to endure. Under what conditions did they have to live? How much they had to endure physical and mental shocks.

Nina Popova has come a long way with the country. She herself is from Yelets. During the war, she became the chairman of the Committee of Soviet Women, the head of the Union of Friendship Societies. Nina met the beginning of the war in the position of chairman of the Krasnopresnensky district executive committee.

Krasnaya Presnya is the heart of the capital. Much depended on how this area would be protected. From the first hours of the war, she was listed as mobilized. She from the rostrum of the anti-fascist forum, calling on all women to rise up spoke up in the fight for freedom. When the German approached Moscow, she went underground. Prepared people for the decisive battle. The defense of Moscow showed that its efforts, like the efforts of millions of other people, became decisive in defeating the enemy.

Ksenia Konstantinova was born in the Lipetsk region, in the small village of Dry Lubna. After graduation, she worked as an assistant epidemiologist. In 1942 she went to the front as a volunteer. Participated in many battles. In the Battle of Kursk, she was wounded and received the medal "For Military Merit". On October 1, 1943, the battalion in which the medical instructor Konstantinova served was surrounded. Xenia was taking out the wounded from the battlefield and stumbled upon the Germans. She took a machine gun and started firing.

An unequal battle ensued. When the cartridges ran out, she began to throw grenades. She lost consciousness from the wound. The Nazis subjected her to brutal torture - they cut off her nose and breasts, gouged out her eyes and nailed her still alive with a stake to the ground.

When the Soviet troops broke through the encirclement, Xenia was buried like a human being, they gave her military honors. In 1944, Xenia was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

None of those who died in the war wanted to die, but the duty to the Motherland and their conscience was higher than other feelings.

The women of that distant war... It is not easy to find words to describe the feat that they accomplished. And so they will live forever in people's memory. This war left no one different. Politicians start wars, but ordinary people die in them. The war was certainly a heroic page in our history, but it would be better if it did not exist at all.

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