Communist Beauties

[Bill Garvy]

Ekaterina Maksimovna Kravchenko, Ukrainian Partisan, circa June 1st, 1973.

[Pobeda45]

Belarus Partisan Rydlevskaya Olga Nikiforovna.

[Bill Garvy]

Corporal Elena Vasilyevna Hristoforova (Елена Васильевна Христофорова) was a telephone operator with the 43rd Independent Communications Regiment who was awarded an Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class, as well as a Combat Service Medal. Serial numbers are unknown at this time.

[desantnik]

An author's commentary on his impressions of visiting the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.

"But more than anything else, I like the dying breed of true believers.

'Communism was bankrupt in every respect. The bosses in the Kremlin knew it and commenced grabbing. The workers in the resource-chomping factories saw it, as did the young and the non-Slavs, the quarter-billion subjects without a future. But a generation of proud Soviets remained - aging, poor, and mostly women - who still made the country function, to the extent that it worked at all.

'Only its women allowed the Soviet Union to endure as long as it did. Not the Red Army, nor the industrial gigantism, not the succession of goofy five-year plans. Sober and devout, women in the forties through mid-sixties swept the streets, cooked the food, petted the drunk, and excused every delay on the path to the Communist promised land. They were honest, those women. Painfully so. Had I been minded to found a joint-venture corporation amid the Soviet rubble, I would have hired only women."

Looking for Trouble: Adventures in a Broken World (p. 29) - Ralph Peters

[Bill Garvy]

Mariya Klimovna Titova, Sergeant & Surgical Assistant, 167th Independent Medical Surgical Battalion, awarded a Combat Service Medal & Order of the Red Star. I think she is in the middle of the third photograph.

[Bill Garvy]

Junior Lieutenant Elena Fillipovna Morozovna – Case Compiler-Typist, Counterintelligence Section “SMERSH,” 202nd Middle-Don Red Banner Bomber Aviation Division.

More about her in the coming weeks, stay tuned. . .

[Bill Garvy]

Anna Ivanovana Shorokhova of Tashkent, Uzbekistan through the years; March, 1956 from her Komsomol Book, June, 1956 from her Labor Union Book, she was an interior painter, and finally July, 1974 from her Communist Party Identification Book.

[Bill Garvy]

"In lasting memory of dear ____ in the days of the Patriotic War.
Remember sometimes your little one loving you
I’m giving you this photo = Lida
____ over the long years, let us not forget our friendship and combat times and actions
September 30
1943"

My thanks to RedMaestro2 for his assistance. . .

[Al-muell]

Originally Posted by Bill Garvy

"In lasting memory of dear ____ in the days of the Patriotic War.
Remember sometimes your little one loving you
I’m giving you this photo = Lida
____ over the long years, let us not forget our friendship and combat times and actions
September 30
1943"

My thanks to RedMaestro2 for his assistance. . .

The missing name seems t be Musya or Alusya - and it's female name.
"____ over the long years, let us not forget"
I think it's "I am giving for long years, so that You don't forget" - first word looksthe same as the one in the line above, and there's "nezabyvay ty" - don't you forget".

Apart fom that - the girl on the left seems to have a nicely re-made m35 gmnasterka, that has bee worn for a long time (color diference between the patches whwere pockets were and the restof te shirt, hidden buttons).

[CtahhR]

Here is Halsahan Rahimova in 1939. Still wearing the traditional headwear.