Mariya Oktyabrskaya. When her husband was killed in World War II, she sold all of their belongings, bought a tank, named it Fighting Girlfriend and started killing Nazis. (August 16th, 1905 – March 15th, 1944)
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A true ride or die
Goals.
I love her and I never met her! ❤️
OG Tank Girl!
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She didn’t exactly buy the tank but yes she did drive a tank.
Holy fuck
Some people talk the talk – this sister takes care of business!!!
This photo looks like it was taken yesterday.
Context: the USSR was Nazi Germany’s ally until Operation Barbarossa.
So Soviet tanks were cheap and easy to learn?
Bought a tank?
Certified badass.
Nowadays some welcome them with open arms.
Glorious.
Oktyabrskaya maneuvered her tank in intense fighting; she and her fellow crew members destroyed machine-gun nests and artillery guns. When her tank was hit by gunfire, Oktyabrskaya, disregarding orders, leapt out of her tank and effected repairs under heavy fire. She was promoted to the rank of sergeant
Two months later, amid fierce small arms and artillery fire. She managed to repair the track, but she was hit in the head by shell fragments and lost consciousness. After the battle, she was transported to a Soviet military field hospital at Fastiv, near Kiev, and then to a military hospital in Smolensk, Russia. She remained in a coma for two months before finally dying on 15 March.
This post again
Russian Propaganda goes back a long way…..
Sold belongings and bought tank… nonsense
But she was Ukrainian
Russians are probably using her tank now in Ukraine.
Cool, curious how she could tell the political views from her tank.