"Give them the leftovers, it's just for propaganda anyway" - Quartermaster before accidentally enabling a crack force of Soviet anti-fascist airwomen
"Give them the leftovers, it's just for propaganda anyway" - Quartermaster before accidentally enabling a crack force of Soviet anti-fascist airwomen
Still have to hand it to them for being way ahead of the west when it came to allowing women in combat roles at all.
Still far from perfect, but undeniably better when it comes to gender equality at the time. Since then, though, they’ve backslid pretty badly.