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Woman from death battalion 1918 (54mm.)

Discussion in 'Sculpting' started by Menelay, Dec 26, 2007.

  1. Menelay A Fixture

    Country:
    Russian-Federation
  2. vergilius New Member

    Country:
    Belgium
    Looks really good
    but what was the death battalion?
  3. eissteban Active Member

    Country:
    France
    i think it was the last women who defend the winter palace against the bolcheviks during the 1917 revolution, isn't it ?
  4. garyjd Well-Known Member

    Country:
    United-States
    Neat figure. I've seen photos of them and in all of them they had shaved heads.~Gary

    Women's Battalions were segregated all-female combat units formed after the February Revolution by the Russian Provisional Government in a last ditch effort to inspire the mass of war-weary soldiers to continue fighting in World War I until victory could be achieved. In the spring of 1917 a number of women began pressing the new Provisional Government to expand female participation in the war, and particularly to form combat units of women volunteers. These women, along with a number of high-ranking members of the Russian government and military administration, believed that female soldiers would have significant propaganda value and that their example would revitalize the weary, demoralized men of the Russian army. Simultaneously, they hoped the presence of women would serve to "shame" hesitant male soldiers into resuming their combat duties. Fifteen formations were created in 1917, including the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, a separate unit called the 1st Petrograd Women's Battalion formed a few weeks later in Petrograd, the 2nd Moscow Women's Battalion of Death created in Moscow, and the 3rd Kuban Women's Shock Battalion organized in Ekaterinodar. Four communications detachments were created in Moscow and Petrograd. Seven additional communications units were created in Kiev and Saratov, again employing privately organized women's units already existing in those cities. An all-female naval unit was created in Oranienbaum, the 1st Women's Naval Detachment, as part of the Naval Infantry Training Detachment.
    The women's battalions were never part of the White Army, Green Army, or Black Army, the other Russian political groups fighting the Bolsheviks.

    Here are some pictures showing them with and without hair.

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  5. Menelay A Fixture

    Country:
    Russian-Federation
    All many thanks for your comments!
    garyjd:
    All is true! But if to look at a photo that it is possible to see, that hair already branches! Excuse for my English language!
  6. Dan Morton A Fixture

    Country:
    United-States
    Menelay - great figure!

    Excellent and thorough answers, Gary!

    All the best,
    Dan
  7. Menelay A Fixture

    Country:
    Russian-Federation
    All many thanks for your comments!
  8. vergilius New Member

    Country:
    Belgium
    very interesting.
    Thanks for the info !

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