And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
A badass...
... in her natural environment.
Supposedly a Red Army soldier. Needs a little work on muzzle discipline, but she looks like she wouldn't flinch to fill you full of lead if you dared to threaten the Rodina.
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.” -- Orwell, 1984
Oh tovarisch!
ReplyDelete(Noce PPSH-41 too!)
Um, "nice", that should say "nice".
ReplyDeleteI thought "noce" was Russian for "cool gun."
DeleteHahaha!
Delete"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.” -- Orwell, 1984
ReplyDeleteThe PPSH was crude but effective.
DeleteLike seemingly most Russian weapons.
DeleteThey all work reliably.
DeleteShe is Erika Szenes, from Hungary. The picture was taken in 1956, while she fought against the Soviets. She was shot by them a few days later.
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