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A WOMAN WITH A RIFLEBy Lieut. Lyudmila PavlichenkoI am Ukranian. I vu born in the town of Belaya Tserkov, not far from Kiev, 26 years ago.I am a moat ordinary-looking girl of medium height, with darkbrown hair, which I used to wear long. I had to have it cut «hort as soon as war broke out, and now my cap covers it easily.I learnt to shoot a long time ago, Every bush or shrub that could affordbefore I went to the University. It cover for a sniper was marked downwas purely an accident that I took by the Germans. They knew not onlyit up. I was very keen on all kinds of our positions; they even knew ourathletics, running. Jumping, discus- names. I have heard them more thanthrowing and swimming, and even once shout through a speaking trum-thought of trying my hand at weight- pet: “Lyudmila Pavlichenko, comelifting. The only thing I was indif- over to us. We will give you lots offercnt to was shooting. chocolate and make you an officer.”Then, one day I happened to hear a After a while they changed toboy boast that he had made eight threats and you would hear the voiceout of ten points at the shooting that had been so Ingratiating bellowrange. That was enough to send me furiously: Better keep out of ourrunning to the range. X took a fancy way, Pavlichenko. If we catch you,to shooting at once, and went In for we’ll tear you into 309 pieces andit properly, and by 1938 had gone scatter them to the wind*.” The fig-through the snipers' school. ure of 309 was the number of fascistsIn summer, 1941, Just before the I had killed. They even knew that!war, I was in Odessa and fell 1U. On I am often asked what I feel whenJune 15 I went into a sanatarium. I kill a German. The only feeling IOn the 22nd, when the Huns marched, have Is the great satisfaction the hun-1 came out The war cured me at ter feels who has killed a beast of once of all my ailments. They would prey or a poisonous snake. The not take girls in the army, so I had Nazis are worse than brute beasts, to resort to all kinds of dodges to They are not simply murderers. They get in. And after a long time I sue- are tyrants, sadists and tormentor* ceeded. I was a soldier like the rest, for whom no laws exist.and took part In Odessa’s defence. The German soldier who remainsA sniper's work Is by no means alive will kill women, children and easy. You go oat while It Is still dark, old folk. Dead Germans are harm-at 4 or 4.80 a.m., aad come back late less. Therefore, if I kill a German, at night. You need great self-control, I am saving lives, will-power and endurance to lie Kvery German killed Is a step to-elghteen hours at a stretch without wards the liberation of mankind from moving. The Slightest move may IllUeiism. mean death.It was the German snipers who taught me caution, endurance and restraint. If I so much as stirred a finger, a bullet would whistle Just over my head or at the back of my legs.Occasionally a German tin hat would WHAT JAPS. WOULD DOappear. Just a fraction of it, and I -A ai ictb ahawould think. Aha! I'U get that TO AUSTRALIA.Jerry.” Then I would fire, and the Besides Red Army victories, there tin hat would waggle like the head of ,re the reports that Staling^ and a toy elephant and disappear. It Kursk are mostly in ruinsf terrible* G*nJ™.an m * 018 atrocities have been perpetrated on**tr*y his position. tb, people. ^ ^Then the Germans would open such the light of such facts we askm^hi^ ItrL^aLJtlt;^ihl«t “rhlt of the dl8ruPtor*' so-called2 . . “antl-conscriptlonista, the pseudo-«f sheer fright I would call out to the mintant strike leaders”: an the machine-gunners. Then the gunners jaD{me»eS^o^a^t^dTw^^ Soviet***cities ^and^murdered^ £“rfate *The snipers were kept busy, and The activities of all the diarnntw we made things unpleasant for the Uts^irt ?o brt£ ^Germans. They were terrified of us fo7 Australia. *and cursed us. And, no wonder, for 100 of our snipers had destroyed 1,080 fascists in 20 days. I myself have trained 80 snipers since the war began. Altogether my pupils have destroyed over 2,000 Germans.Horrible Atrocities In Soviet CitiesFALLON CO. RUN TRUE TO FORMThe A.W.U. bureaucracy has oncefound it very difficult to 'work, more rejected affiliation with the Aua-Every inch of ground was under fire, tralian Council of Trade Unions.In addition to its many ol crimes, this action reveals the si ting role, the policy of keeping Trade Union movement bplit oi national scale, pursued by this actionary bureaucracy.Mr. Curtin gent a message to Convention, referring to the A.V a* MAustralia's greatest Union.” no sense is that correct. The i amalgamated Metal and Munlt Union rivals It in numbers, and membership of this Union Is m more coherent than that of sprawling A.W.U., with its het geneous composition. This I'nlon i Is In the basic heavy industry, »vl makes It, together with the A.E with 60,000 members, at least Important as the A.W.U.As far as class policy and struj are concerned, many Unions, Min Seamen. Waterside workers, others, besides operating in basic dustry, are politically and industri far ahead of the A.W.U. which, reality, is a centre of reaction In Labor movementFallon Is the leader of thin action, but he apparently has a ri and Is In danger of being out-] lonod by Dougherty, another lt;Ju« land bureaucrat The progressive workers in A.W.U. have the task of overthr ing this bureaucracy and ending policy of dividing the workers 1 those affiliated to the A.C.T.U., overwhelming majority, and th under the bureaucratic domination Fallon, Dougherty and Co.TAXI-MEN GAIN GROUNFollowing the recent strike and lt;closures the Transport Commissio has received representations from Road Transport Union.A conference has taken place tween the Union and the Comn sioner.An understanding was given tl the abolition of the traffic in t plates, the limitation of taxi licen to men actually engaged In the ind try, the limitation of the distaj which a taxi could be forced to U a fare, and the establishment of sp ial ranks on the railway, would celve sympathetic consideration.The special rank provision is those whose daily quota of petrol near-exhausted. At the railwsy tl would pick up fares in the direction home.REQUEST TO LABOR COUNCI The Road Transport Union has quested the N.S.W. Trades snd Lai Council to consider a boycott Green Cabs. Smith, mansger h« told assembled drivers that t) either had to be “in the Green Ci and out of the Union, or in the Un; and out of the Green Cabs.” Several unionists have already 1 this firm, which was the only t company to transport'-scab labor the textile and rubber strikes.11m DMm* Pvm«.
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Hobart Tribune
Hobart, Tasmania, AU
Wed, Feb 17, 1943
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