Status Updates From Red Valkyries: The Revoluti...

No disrespect to Alexandra Kollontai, but her perspective feels very petit bourgeois in its foundation. She clearly has a deep empathy for the proletarian women, but I don’t think her arguments were quite as revolutionary as she presented them - i.e., I don’t think her arguments actually point beyond capitalism, at least in her earlier career, I’ll have to see what the rest of her chapter has to say

This interview Pavlichenko did was wild:
Q: Is that your parade uniform or your everyday uniform?
A: We have no time for parades at the moment.
Q: But the uniform makes you look fat. Or don’t you mind?
A: I am proud to wear the uniform of the legendary Red Army… I wish you could experience a bombing raid. Honestly, you would immediately forget about the cut of your outfit.
Plus telling big tobacco to fuck off

Lyudmila Pavlichenko, “the sniperess”, over the course of about 3 years during WWII killed a Nazi every 3-4 days by my math. That is absolutely fucking ludicrous.

Don’t mind me - just over here reading my *socialist* *feminist* *literature*