The Soviets used women in combat more than any army during WWII. The Red Army had no problem assigning women to tank crews, artillery crews, as field medics or as snipers. Twenty five percent of Zhukov’s and Konev’s tanks had women crew members when the steam rolled into Berlin. At the height of the war, as the Germans encircled Leningrad, and were within sight of Moscow, the one thing that the Soviets did not do was give a women a PPSH or Moisin Nagant and assign her to an infantry outfit as a rifleman. She could be a medic, a radio operator, or a messenger in an infantry unit, but not as an infantryman. Some women snipers had over 300 kills, but in 1943 th Soviet Army discontinued training women snipers because the women snipers were killed at a much higher rate than the men snipers.
The WWII soviet assignments was partly due to shortages.
They took, as you know huge losses in 1st two years.
I read that by 44’, they were beginning to feeling the strain. But they were winning by mid 44, and soviet troop quality (leaders, mostly) had improved dramatically.
The soviet trooper, was a hardy fighter, poorly led (early).
(my opinion)