For Lyudmila Pavlichenko, killing Nazis wasn't complicated. “The only feeling I have is the great satisfaction a hunter feels who has killed a beast of prey,” she once said of her job. But Pavlichenko ...

Justice Robert Jackson, Lyudmila Pavlichenko and Eleanor Roosevelt in 1942. Library of Congress Lyudmila Pavlichenko arrived in Washington, D.C., in late 1942 as little more than a curiosity to the ...

In early 1941, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was studying history at Kiev University, but within a year, she had become one of the best snipers of all time, credited with 309 confirmed kills, 36 of which were ...

Pavlichenko attained a final kill tally of 309, making her one of the top five deadliest snipers, period. March is Women’s History Month, and accordingly, The National Interest shall honor the ...

I was wiping off sweat and waiting for a walk sign halfway through a six-mile run late one night in September 2017 when I noticed an image praising a woman who’d gunned down 300 Nazis wheat-pasted to ...

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, hundreds of thousands of Soviet women sprang to join the war effort, enlisting as nurses, clerks, cooks — and snipers. Over 2000 women were trained ...

Lyudmila Pavlichenko, history’s deadliest female sniper, is considered to be a Soviet propaganda myth by some, including some people in Russia. The divorced teenage mother from the tiny Ukrainian town ...

Lyudmila Pavlichenko is considered the deadliest woman sniper of the Great Patriotic War, with 309 kills to her name, all of them enemy soldiers and officers. Nicknamed “Lady Death” by foreign war ...

The print of a smiling woman that’s wheat-pasted to a traffic control box near City Park states, “300 Nazis Fell By Her Gun.” Who’s the “her” in the picture? After doing some research, I found out – ...