Survivorship bias - certainly true. Do senior faculty also get a survivor syndrome (also known to occur in the workplace). Is that whats triggered this post and similar ones of others..? Guilt + „why me?” ?
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I don't really think they or anyone serving in Soviet Army in rank below colonel or so at that time was treated as anything but cannon fodder.
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Thank you for you input, Dima. Sexism is now cancelled. Everybody, step down, no more feminism needed!
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war and death cancels everything, even feminism...
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Pretty sure it doesn't and in fact women are hideously raped in war in ways unimaginable.
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The USSR is not known as being "feminist" during war time. So please fuck off with your "war ends sexism" Soviet-sexism-apologetics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany …
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It would be lovely if you didn't reply to threads I'm in, as you have been more than once, to tell me what a great partner, great traveller and dad and whatever the fuck else you are. I couldn't care less and you just crossed a major line with your BS this time.
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If you think the USSR is less sexist than the UK, there have been many studied into this. I also come from a part of the world that superficially seems less sexist. However, the real story is much more depressing and interesting than Cyprus and the USSR are less sexist.
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This thread actually covers what you said and addresses the issues:https://twitter.com/leraboroditsky/status/1006178463101796353 …
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Also to be clear, you categorically disagree with Wikipedia? You should probably fix it then... I guess? it says PO-2 were "training aircraft (hence its original uchebnyy designation prefix of "U-") and for crop dusting" — don't seem too "good" let's say.
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Also states: "the aircraft were obsolete and slow"
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Also states "Though women were initially barred from combat, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin issued an order on October 8, 1941 to deploy three women's air force units, including the 588th regiment.
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The regiment, formed by Major Marina Raskova and led by Major Yevdokia Bershanskaya, was made up primarily of female volunteers in their late teens and early twenties." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches …
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This isn't looking like a sexism-free paradise, but they eventually let women do it.
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I don't get that "treated differently". The regiment (one of many that flew PO-2 plane) was very successful, flew 23000 sorties at a loss of only 32 lives, was given various high combat awards. For female fighter pilots, check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Litvyak …
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"Though women were initially barred from combat," you think men were barred initially too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches …
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You think men were called "a bunch of girlies"?https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/night-witches-the-female-fighter-pilots-of-world-war-ii/277779/ …
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You think this was true for the other bombers manned by well, men? "Flying only in the dark, they had no parachutes, guns, radios or radar, only maps and compasses. If hit by tracer bullets, their planes would burn like sheets of paper."https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/world/europe/nadezhda-popova-ww-ii-night-witch-dies-at-91.html …
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INB4: you start saying nobody had parachutes or something https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4ugqvh/is_it_true_russian_ww2_soldiers_were_dropped_from/d5qao3c/ …
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