In April 1944, Roza Shanina felt depressed when he shot and killed a Nazi for the first time, starting a streak of defeating 59 names in 10 months.

Roza Shanina was born on April 3, 1924 in a commune a few hundred kilometers east of the city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in the Soviet Union.

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Roza Shanin, a female Soviet sniper during World War II Photo: Rare Historical Photos.

Shanina is considered to be an alert student with a high sense of independence.

After the Nazis swept across the western border and invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the secondary school fee-free regime was abolished, leaving Shanina out of support.

However, the specter of war quickly enveloped people's lives.

The Soviet Red Army initially banned women from enlistment, but changed their mind as the battlefield became worse and worse, leaving them with a serious shortage of manpower.

Shanina's amazing marksmanship was so widely recognized that the academy suggested she stay as a lecturer instead of going to the battlefield, where her life was always in a state of "a thousand pounds hanging hair".

Three days after arriving at the western front, Shanina took the first step to destroy the enemy.

"That evening, a German soldier appeared in the trench. I estimated the distance to the target to be no more than 400 m, a suitable distance. When the German man lowered his head and walked towards the forest, I pulled the trigger.

After realizing what she had just done, Shanina felt her legs flutter and slid down a trench.

However, during her operation on the front, Shanina was disappointed by only being given jobs in the back, due to Soviet policy not allowing women to go to the frontlines.

"If only you knew how much I longed to stand with the soldiers on the front and destroy the fascists. I would like to ask you to talk to someone in charge of this, even though I know you are extremely busy.

Due to not being "safe", Shanina gradually had a habit of voluntarily leaving her position and running to the frontlines to lengthen the list of fascists she defeated.

A Soviet photographer described Shanina as a "tall and slender girl with smiling eyes", who only agreed to take pictures if her friends appeared with her.

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Shanina (left) instructs a soldier how to snipe Photo: Rare Historical Photos.

At that time, the number of Germans killed at the hands of this young female sniper was 46. She began her mission every foggy dawn, "crawling through a muddy trench to her position.

The author of the article also describes in detail about the morning Shanina killed 5 enemies at the same time.

Two other German soldiers rushed to the rescue, but were quickly defeated by her.

By October 1944, Shania had become a celebrity with a series of praising articles.

Meanwhile, Shanina began to record herself on the battlefield in diaries, recounting stories, while sending feelings of loneliness, suffering and hope for the future, because the war had

The days on Shanina's front lines continued to drag on with seemingly endless gunshots, followed by increasingly tinged and sad-colored diaries.

The next day the situation was even worse.

Shanina said she was forced to kiss her by a colonel's son when she was drunk, so it reflected his warmth with his father.

The life of a talented female gunner does not last long.

As the first Soviet female sniper to be awarded the Medal of Glory, and one of the gunners to destroy the most enemy troops of the Soviet Union during World War II, Shanina's legacy has spread.

Journalist Molchanov, Shanina's friend, kept her letters and diaries for 20 years, then published them in 1965, helping to give the gunner the recognition she deserved.