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- 6/23/2001 3:15:00 AM

Akmatov

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Just got back on the net and am trolling along through all the good stuff here. Alexandra, there was a Russian battalion of women raised during the later part of World War I. It called itself the Battalion of Death and was raised by a noble women from the Romanov court. Its performance in the its one engagement was said to be poor (the author cited reasons that seemed sexist without reference to their level of training and equipment) and it was said to have been the guard detachment at the Winter Palace at the time of the Revolution. The source was a general history without a specific focus on women or the military. In general, the Soviet utilization of women as soldiers is very much in line with their general utilization of women - as labors, but not management. The Soviet regime was highly sexist, and racist, in spite of putting on a good propaganda front.

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