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In reply to the discussion: Do women need to prove themselves equal to man on the battlefield? [View all]aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)I'm a liberal but I can't help myself and I won't watch female boxing and I think it's too brutal for women.. i think women though can be as tough and courageous as men. In World War I the Russian Women's Battalion of Death fought in trench warfare against German regular troops. I can't think of anything more horrific than the attrition brought about by trench warfare, the diseases, the filth, the constant shelling and the effect on the nerves, and the bayonet attacks. In the battle of Smorgan, they were ordered to go over the top to shame the men's units (who were afraid to advance) into attacking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Battalion
"...Called into action against the Germans during the Kerensky Offensive, they were assigned to the 525th Kiuruk-Darinski Regiment and occupied a trench near Smorgon. Ordered to go over the top, the soldiers of the war weary men's battalions hesitated. The women, however, decided to go with or without them. Eventually they pushed past three trenches into German territory, where soldiers discovered a stash of vodka, which the women tried to break before they could be drunk. In his report, the commander of the regiment praised the women's battalion's initiative and courage.[8] ..."