Female Commissars??

[Red Future]

Were there many Female commissars in the Soviet Union ??

[ComradeOm]

Not that I know of. I have seen the odd reference to female commissars during the Civil War period but I'd be amazed if there were any number of them in service during WWII

[Omsk]

No,the Red Army didn't enlist a lot of women,like the allies did,the brave comrades in the Red Army had a different perspective-the women were needed back home,were they could nurse the kids and help in all manners of non combat duties,but,in the darkest of times,when the brutalized fascist pigs attacked the Union,women were called to the army,but not much of them and they rarely advanced in ranks too much.
And the term 'commisar' was along-side the rank and duty replaced by political officer after the many loses and defeats in the start of the war,it was re-introduced later,but i dont think there were any female commisars.There were brave female snipers,but female commisars-no.

[Die Neue Zeit]

There was one woman in Khrushchev's Council of Ministers, Yekaterina Furtseva.

[Queercommie Girl]

No,the Red Army didn't enlist a lot of women,like the allies did,the brave comrades in the Red Army had a different perspective-the women were needed back home,were they could nurse the kids and help in all manners of non combat duties,but,in the darkest of times,when the brutalized fascist pigs attacked the Union,women were called to the army,but not much of them and they rarely advanced in ranks too much.
And the term 'commisar' was along-side the rank and duty replaced by political officer after the many loses and defeats in the start of the war,it was re-introduced later,but i dont think there were any female commisars.There were brave female snipers,but female commisars-no.

There were relatively more female soldiers in the Chinese PLA, AFAIK. Despite traditional Chinese culture being even more patriarchal and sexist than European culture, Maoism was more radically anti-sexist than Stalinism was. (In fact that was probably why it was more radical)

[mosfeld]

There were relatively more female soldiers in the Chinese PLA, AFAIK. Despite traditional Chinese culture being even more patriarchal and sexist than European culture, Maoism was more radically anti-sexist than Stalinism was. (In fact that was probably why it was more radical)

You can also see that the current People's Wars have extremely large number of female cadres. In Peru, 8 of the 16 member Central Committee were women and an estimated 40% of the fighters were women. The women in Peru were often more disciplined and heroic in their fighting as well. The video below is from the documentary "People of the Shining Path (http://www.archive.org/details/People_of_the_Shining_Path)" and shows disciplined female PCP cadres in prison.

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[IndependentCitizen]

Not that I've read, but there's been a few of kick-ass nazi popping female snipers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roza_Shanina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Lobkovskaya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Baramzina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziba_Ganiyeva