THE TANK COMMANDER Aleksandra Samusenko

What'sHerName

Dr. Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Aleksandra Samusenko commanded a unit of Soviet tanks through some of the most brutal battles in human history. The Soviet Union never told her story. But an American paratrooper who'd escaped a Nazi POW camp never forgot her. In the final months of World War II, he joined her unit, and together they made the final push to Berlin. Guest Hayley Noble shares the story of THE TANK COMMANDER Aleksandra Samusenko. Haley Noble's website on Soviet Women in Combat is HERE, with social media links HERE. Soviet WWII Music used in this episode can be found HERE. The Russian State History page on Samusenko (with lots of photos and documents) is HERE. Additional music was composed by Exra Lipp, Amulets, Jimena Contreras, Wayne Jones, Esther Abrami, and Quincas Moreira. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Attention.
0:02.0	Oh, hang on.
0:04.0	Attention.
0:05.0	Rail travellers, platform paces, window gazers and armrest negotiators.
0:10.0	Have you heard?
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0:28.3	Teas and season exclusions apply.
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0:33.2	Julie Gray, Brehame Smith, Robin Brown, Janelleys Cannon, Jamie Lang, Maria Sanchez, Valerie Jacobson, Jill Harrigan, Chantelle Oliver, Heather McKinnon, Michaela Fruh, and Caitlin McTaggart.
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0:57.1	Hi, Olivia.
0:58.8	Hi, Katie.
1:01.8	Today, our story begins in a wintry barn at a farm in what's now Poland.
1:08.1	January, 1945.
1:12.5	Ooh. It's 1945. Ooh.
1:13.7	It's World War II.
1:15.2	Yeah.
1:16.8	Tanks from the Soviet Red Army
1:18.7	are rolling into the snowy farm yard
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