The Soviet Union had women in the military before ww2 as well. They were an advanced Marxist/feminist nation after all. The women made good propganda copy but were disbanded in 1944 when it became clear they were more of a liability than an asset. The Marxist propaganda on the subject continues to live on spread both by Marxists and their useful dupes.
REMF: Lieutenant General Thomas C. Seamands is the product of an Army Family. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from the University of Dayton and was commissioned through the ROTC program into the Adjutant General’s Corps. He is a graduate of the AG Officer Basic Course, AG Officer Advanced Course, and the Army Command and General Staff College. He attained a Master of Science Degree in Management from Webster University, was the Army’s Leadership and Management Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a Fellow at MIT’s Seminar XXI: Foreign Politics, International Relations and the National Interest. Lieutenant General Seamands assumed his current assignment as the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, United States Army, Washington, DC in May 2017.
In 1945, 20% of the soviet tanks in Zhukov’s & Konev’s armies storming Berlin had women crew members, including at least one tank battalion commander that was a women.