maerilith
03-08-2016, 07:11 PM
I understand you all percieve this as a male "den" men only space of sorts.
But I hate to break it to you women play these games too. Women are fierce warriors.
Some of the best fighters in history have been women... for starters lets check out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko credited with 309 kills.
And here we have my all time favorite, while not the best kill death ratio. My inspiration in life.
http://i.imgur.com/5gTss5y.jpg
Roza Shanina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roza_Shanina)
Roza Georgiyevna Shanina[a] (Russian: Ро́за Гео́ргиевна Ша́нина, IPA: [ˈrozə ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪɪvnəˈʂanʲɪnə]; 3 April 1924 – 28 January 1945[b]) was a Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with fifty-nine confirmed kills, including twelve soldiers during the Battle of Vilnius. Shanina volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941 and chose to be a marksman on the front line. Praised for her shooting accuracy, Shanina was capable of precisely hitting enemy personnel and making doublets (two target hits by two rounds fired in quick succession).
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Death
Death notification sent to Shanina's mother by the 205th Separate Medical and Sanitary Battalion.
In the face of the East Prussian Offensive, the Germans tried to strengthen the localities they controlled against great odds. In a diary entry dated 16 January 1945, Shanina wrote that despite her wish to be in a safer place, some unknown force was drawing her to the front line.[53] In the same entry she wrote that she had no fear and that she had even agreed to go "to a melee combat". The next day, Shanina wrote in a letter that she might be on the verge of being killed because her battalion had lost 72 out of 78 people.[12] Her last diary entry reports that German fire had become so intense that the Soviet troops, including herself, had sheltered inside self-propelled guns.[7] On 27 January Shanina was severely injured while shielding a wounded artillery officer. She was found by two soldiers disemboweled, with her chest torn open by a shell fragment.[54] Despite attempts to save her, Shanina died the following day[54] near the Richau estate (later a Soviet settlement of Telmanovka), 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southeast of the East Prussian village of Ilmsdorf (Novobobruysk (de)). Nurse Yekaterina Radkina remembered Shanina telling her that she regretted having done so little.[54] By the day of Shanina's death the Soviets had overtaken several major East Prussian localities, including Tilsit, Insterburg and Pillau, and approached Königsberg. Recalling the moment Shanina's mother received notification of her daughter's death, her brother Marat wrote: "I clearly remembered mother's eyes. They weren't teary anymore. ... 'That's all, that's all'—she repeated".[55] Shanina was buried under a spreading pear tree on the shore of the Alle River—now called the Lava—[12] and was later reinterred in the settlement of Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast.[56]
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Posthumous honours
In 1964–65 a renewed interest in Shanina arose in the Soviet press, largely due to the publication of her diary. The newspaper Severny Komsomolets asked Shanina's contemporaries to write what they knew about her.[22] Streets in Arkhangelsk, Shangaly and Stroyevskoye were named after her, and the village of Yedma has a museum dedicated to Shanina. The local school where she studied in 1931–35 has a commemorative plate.[57] In Arkhangelsk, regular shooting competitions were organized among members of the paramilitary DOSAAF sport organisation for the Roza Shanina Prize,[27] while Novodvinsk organized an open shooting sports championship in her memory.[58] The village of Malinovka in Ustyansky District started to hold annual cross-country ski races for the Roza Shanina Prize.[59]
In 1985, the Council of Veterans of the Russian Central Women Sniper Academy unsuccessfully requested the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union to posthumously bestow the Order of Glory 1st Class on Shanina[60] (which would have made her a Full Cavalier of that order). In the same year, Russian author Nikolai Zhuravlyov published the book Posle boya vernulas (Returned After Battle). Its title refers to Shanina's words, "I will return after the battle," which she uttered after receiving a note from her battalion commander urging her to return to the rear immediately.[27] Verses have been composed about Shanina, such as those by writer Nikolai Nabitovich.[61] A small memorial stele dedicated to Shanina (part of a three-piece monument) was erected in Bogdanovsky settlement, Ustyansky District.[62]
In 2000, Shanina's name appeared on the war memorial stone of the Siberian State Technological University, although there is no evidence she had any affiliation with it during her life. Russian author Viktor Logvinov controversially wrote in the 1970s that Shanina had studied in the Siberian Forestry Institute and that she was the daughter of an "old Krasnoyarsk communist".[63] The claim was continued by Krasnoyarsk publications in later years, particularly in 2005.[64] In 2013, a wall of memory, featuring graffiti portraits of six Russian war honorees, including Roza Shanina, was opened in Arkhangelsk.[65]
http://i.imgur.com/DXhkB71.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/Kf2CZRU.jpg
If it weren't for these brave and beautiful women you'd all be serving under Furher Kagatob and fearing Tomatokings Tomatic Service ratting out your families for posting bank statements on a txt based BBS written in germanic.
But /pras for the women who layed down their lives to ensure we could fight and keep the tradition of bravery going over pixels and have friends online halfway around the world.
But I hate to break it to you women play these games too. Women are fierce warriors.
Some of the best fighters in history have been women... for starters lets check out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko credited with 309 kills.
And here we have my all time favorite, while not the best kill death ratio. My inspiration in life.
http://i.imgur.com/5gTss5y.jpg
Roza Shanina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roza_Shanina)
Roza Georgiyevna Shanina[a] (Russian: Ро́за Гео́ргиевна Ша́нина, IPA: [ˈrozə ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪɪvnəˈʂanʲɪnə]; 3 April 1924 – 28 January 1945[b]) was a Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with fifty-nine confirmed kills, including twelve soldiers during the Battle of Vilnius. Shanina volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941 and chose to be a marksman on the front line. Praised for her shooting accuracy, Shanina was capable of precisely hitting enemy personnel and making doublets (two target hits by two rounds fired in quick succession).
...
Death
Death notification sent to Shanina's mother by the 205th Separate Medical and Sanitary Battalion.
In the face of the East Prussian Offensive, the Germans tried to strengthen the localities they controlled against great odds. In a diary entry dated 16 January 1945, Shanina wrote that despite her wish to be in a safer place, some unknown force was drawing her to the front line.[53] In the same entry she wrote that she had no fear and that she had even agreed to go "to a melee combat". The next day, Shanina wrote in a letter that she might be on the verge of being killed because her battalion had lost 72 out of 78 people.[12] Her last diary entry reports that German fire had become so intense that the Soviet troops, including herself, had sheltered inside self-propelled guns.[7] On 27 January Shanina was severely injured while shielding a wounded artillery officer. She was found by two soldiers disemboweled, with her chest torn open by a shell fragment.[54] Despite attempts to save her, Shanina died the following day[54] near the Richau estate (later a Soviet settlement of Telmanovka), 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southeast of the East Prussian village of Ilmsdorf (Novobobruysk (de)). Nurse Yekaterina Radkina remembered Shanina telling her that she regretted having done so little.[54] By the day of Shanina's death the Soviets had overtaken several major East Prussian localities, including Tilsit, Insterburg and Pillau, and approached Königsberg. Recalling the moment Shanina's mother received notification of her daughter's death, her brother Marat wrote: "I clearly remembered mother's eyes. They weren't teary anymore. ... 'That's all, that's all'—she repeated".[55] Shanina was buried under a spreading pear tree on the shore of the Alle River—now called the Lava—[12] and was later reinterred in the settlement of Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast.[56]
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Posthumous honours
In 1964–65 a renewed interest in Shanina arose in the Soviet press, largely due to the publication of her diary. The newspaper Severny Komsomolets asked Shanina's contemporaries to write what they knew about her.[22] Streets in Arkhangelsk, Shangaly and Stroyevskoye were named after her, and the village of Yedma has a museum dedicated to Shanina. The local school where she studied in 1931–35 has a commemorative plate.[57] In Arkhangelsk, regular shooting competitions were organized among members of the paramilitary DOSAAF sport organisation for the Roza Shanina Prize,[27] while Novodvinsk organized an open shooting sports championship in her memory.[58] The village of Malinovka in Ustyansky District started to hold annual cross-country ski races for the Roza Shanina Prize.[59]
In 1985, the Council of Veterans of the Russian Central Women Sniper Academy unsuccessfully requested the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union to posthumously bestow the Order of Glory 1st Class on Shanina[60] (which would have made her a Full Cavalier of that order). In the same year, Russian author Nikolai Zhuravlyov published the book Posle boya vernulas (Returned After Battle). Its title refers to Shanina's words, "I will return after the battle," which she uttered after receiving a note from her battalion commander urging her to return to the rear immediately.[27] Verses have been composed about Shanina, such as those by writer Nikolai Nabitovich.[61] A small memorial stele dedicated to Shanina (part of a three-piece monument) was erected in Bogdanovsky settlement, Ustyansky District.[62]
In 2000, Shanina's name appeared on the war memorial stone of the Siberian State Technological University, although there is no evidence she had any affiliation with it during her life. Russian author Viktor Logvinov controversially wrote in the 1970s that Shanina had studied in the Siberian Forestry Institute and that she was the daughter of an "old Krasnoyarsk communist".[63] The claim was continued by Krasnoyarsk publications in later years, particularly in 2005.[64] In 2013, a wall of memory, featuring graffiti portraits of six Russian war honorees, including Roza Shanina, was opened in Arkhangelsk.[65]
http://i.imgur.com/DXhkB71.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/Kf2CZRU.jpg
If it weren't for these brave and beautiful women you'd all be serving under Furher Kagatob and fearing Tomatokings Tomatic Service ratting out your families for posting bank statements on a txt based BBS written in germanic.
But /pras for the women who layed down their lives to ensure we could fight and keep the tradition of bravery going over pixels and have friends online halfway around the world.