Lady Death: Lyudmila Pavlichenko (Encore)
Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More
Gary Arndt
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🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily. |
| 0:04.0 | In 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, |
| 0:11.0 | a 24-year-old woman in Ukraine volunteered to join the Red Army. |
| 0:15.0 | She was initially pressured to become a nurse, like most women who volunteered. |
| 0:19.0 | However, that wasn't what she wanted to do. |
| 0:20.8 | She wanted to be on the front lines. |
| 0:23.0 | Within a year, she was to become one of the most lethal soldiers in all of the Second World War. |
| 0:28.0 | Learn more about Ludmilla Pavlauchenko, aka Lady Death, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The woman we know as Ludmilla, Mikhailovna Pavlachenko was born Ludmilla Belova in present-day Ukraine in what was then the Russian Empire in 1916. |
| 1:00.0 | She was admittedly a tomboy growing up and was always very competitive. |
| 1:04.0 | When she was 14 years old her parents moved to Kiev. |
| 1:07.0 | While in Kiev, legend has it that she encountered a boy her age who was bragging about what a good shot he was with a rifle. |
| 1:12.0 | She later noted, quote, I set out to who's bragging about what a good shot he was with a rifle. |
| 1:12.8 | She later noted, quote, I set out to show |
| 1:15.2 | that a girl could do just as well as a boy, |
| 1:17.3 | so I practiced a lot. |
| 1:19.0 | End quote. |
| 1:20.3 | She joined a local shooting club and began practicing. |
| 1:22.8 | She quickly showed proficiency and earned the respected Voro Shireshy Love Sharp shooter badge, |
| 1:27.7 | which was a Soviet civilian award for excellence in sharp shooting. |
| 1:30.7 | She was married very early at the age of 16 and had a son. It was this |
| 1:35.2 | marriage where she took the name Pavlachenko. However, the marriage didn't last |
| 1:39.6 | very long and she and her young son moved in with her parents. |
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