![]() Of these snipers one woman stood out from all the rest. Standard practice was to aim for the commanding officer first and pick off soldiers from there one by one with deadly precision. ()įor two years on the defensive these sharpshooters gave the Germans grief at every corner. ![]() Focusing on long range sniper attacks to counteract being out manned and out gunned by the Germans during the first war many of the top stand outs in this sniper training happened to be women. A female lead in a war game but this was no token nod to the fairer sex.ĭuring the second war the USSR used more women in combat that any other country and many of these women were not only proficient soldiers but deadly snipers.įollowing World War I which emphasized not only trench warfare but introduced short range combat with the machine gun, Soviet military minds decided to take an alternative route. At first glance this may have seemed progressive for the time of its release. In the game during the second act of the “Eastern Front” you assume control of a female Soviet sniper named, Tanya Pavelovna. But proud Russians refused to let that happen. ![]() To lose Stalingrad would be to lose the war. Stalin’s government telling every man, woman and child with a gun to step up against their German invaders. With their backs to the wall Russians were fighting for everything. Close quarter combat, building to building, room to room, brick by brick the streets of Stalingrad ran red. The battle of Stalingrad is considered one of the most violent and bloody battles in warfare history with an estimated TWO MILLION casualties between both sides. So sure of victory he even wrote that following the battle every Russian man is to be shot and every Russian woman and child deported because the population was “throughly communistic” and “especially dangerous”.īut that defeat was never to happen. So much so that Hitler himself personally rewrote military strategy to occupy Stalingrad upon defeat. Not only was Stalingrad (now Volgograd) a strategic target for the axis – the Nazi’s initially wanted to paralyze the industrious city while also cutting off access to the Volga River but it also became an epicenter for propaganda and morale. Much of Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic’s were under Nazi control. At this point in the war the Germans had captured a vast majority of Soviet territory. You are a young Soviet soldier on a rowboat desperately trying to reach the war ravaged shores of Stalingrad. Sounds like the start to hundreds of World War Two games – generally starting with the allied invasion of Normandy.īut Call of Duty: Finest Hour begins differently. Upon starting Call of Duty you are a young private on a boat. ![]()
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