Emily Lombardi’s Reviews > Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy > Status Update

“And no matter how many Soviet citizens he [Stalin] laid down on these altars of modernity, Soviet women would always step into the breach. They would pick up guns and climb into the cockpits of planes in which they burned like matchsticks. They would give up their sons for the country, pretend their children were heroes rather than cannon fodder, and when those sons fell in battle, they would have more.”

this will be verryyy slow moving because a) a very dense (but well written) book and b) I have to stop every 8 words to think about where I’m putting the stress/how I say it/what does this Russian phrase mean, do I still remember, etc etc etc