An interesting movie about a Russian women’s battalion at the end of WW1. The leader was executed by the communists eventually.
“Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4187590/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
A book that I read on Soviet history discussed Lenin and his 20 hard-core Communist compatriots. By the mid 1930s, Stalin had executed every one of them. He knew that if they were able to overthrow the czar, they could easily be a threat to him.
Wasn’t Russia using women as snipers and fighter pilots by WWII?