In August 1941, a prototype women’s uniform was created, with a dress instead of a tunic, first made of cotton and then wool, and with a beret instead of a forage cap. Women appeared at the ...

In August 1941, a prototype women’s uniform was created, with a dress instead of a tunic, first made of cotton and then wool, and with a beret instead of a forage cap. Women appeared at the ...

The Soviet women warriors of World War II were to forgo their emotions along with their feminine clothes. In male-issue uniforms they marched as infantry soldiers, tank mechanics, machine-gunners ...

Recruiters in military uniforms toured Russian jails for women in the fall of 2023, offering inmates a pardon and $2,000 a month — 10 times the national minimum wage — in return for serving in ...