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They took her hometown and they killed her husband.
She learned how to fight and how to use deadly weapons.
She signed up to fight in the Soviet Army after donating the money to build her very
own tank.
Avenging her husband's death to the Nazis in the Second World War, she fearlessly went
into battle and took names.
It sounds like a plot to a dramatic Hollywood movie, but the story of this extraordinarily
brave Soviet woman is historic fact and not fictional fodder.
She's one of the toughest, most badass women who ever lived, and today we'll take a close
look at her, in this episode of the Infographics Show, Nazi Killer: Mariya Oktyabrskaya.
Ukrainian Mariya Oktyabrskaya was born to a peasant family on August 16, 1905.
She was one of 10 children, so she must have learned a bit about fighting before her higher
calling came later in life.
Before the Second World War, she worked as a canner and then as a telephone operator,
and in 1925, she married a Soviet army officer.
That's when her interest in matters of a military nature began.
She was trained as a nurse and became involved with the Military Wives Council.
She learned how to use weapons and drive vehicles.
During the Eastern Front War, much of her hometown was destroyed by the Nazis, and she
was evacuated to Tomsk in Siberia where she learned, in 1943, of her husband's death
in battle with the Nazis near Kiev two years before.
She took the news badly and decided to sell all of her possessions in order to donate
towards the manufacturing of a tank aptly named "Fighting Girlfriend" for the Red
Army.
Mariya wrote a hopeful letter to Soviet leader Stalin.
It read like this: "My husband was killed in action defending
the motherland.
I want revenge on the fascist dogs for his death and for the deaths of the Soviet people
tortured by the fascist barbarians.
For this purpose, I've deposited all my personal savings – 50,000 rubles – to
the National Bank in order to build the tank 'Fighting Girlfriend' and to send me to
the frontline as a driver of said tank."
To her surprise Stalin agreed, and after taking part in a 5-month training program, Mariya
was, in fact, part of the war effort.
She had somewhat of an edge on her fellow fighters, as most tank drivers and mechanics
were sent straight out to the frontline with little or no training.
She was posted in the 26th Guards Tank Brigade as a driver and mechanic in September 1943,
and began fighting battles in Smolensk.
In her first battle, the 38-year-old widow took out some 30 Nazis and destroyed an anti-tank
gun.
She became accustomed to disregarding passive orders during battle to jump out of her tank
and repair damages caused by gunfire.
Due to her bravery on the battlefield, Mariya was promoted to the rank of sergeant and her
willingness to show courage both inside and outside of the tank drew admiration from her
military peers.
She was naturally accepted into the ranks by her comrades, and as her reputation grew,
the Russian media caught onto the story.
She became part of the communist propaganda machine as something of a poster girl.
She participated in what is thought to be the largest tank battle ever fought in human
history – the battle of Kursk.
She swerved and evaded enemy fire while positioning her tank in a fashion that did the most damage
to Hitler's forces.
Mariya was driven by the death of her husband and the destruction of her hometown and would
not rest until she had eliminated every Nazi in her sights on the frontline.
She was fearlessly moving forward in her "Fighting Girlfriend" machine of war.
In November 1943, the Soviet forces took the town of Novoye Selo at night, and Mariya's
reputation rose once more as a fearless Red Army force to be reckoned with.
She could drive a tank as well as anybody, repair that same tank, fire guns, and toss
grenades.
She was, in short, a war machine.
In January 1944, she fought again at night as part of the Leningrad-Novgorod offensive,
and heroically powered forward in her T-34, destroying machine gun nests and a self-propelled
gun.
Her tank was struck by a German anti-tank shell and Mariya leaped from her tank to undergo
repairs.
She repaired the tank but was struck in the head by small arm fire and was transported
to a military field hospital near Kiev, where she remained in a coma for two months, before
finally dying on March 15.
She was subsequently made a hero of the Soviet Union for her bravery on the battlefield.
Her memory lives on fondly in the hearts of the people for being one of the most badass
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So, what do you think of this Russian Joan of Arc?
Was was the toughest woman who ever lived?
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