Yet her frequent requests for transfer were ignored. Her passionate desire was to kill the enemy with her own hands. However, the work of a medic did not satisfy Lyuba Zemska. She went to the active army, to the medical battalion of 100th Rifle division, which was soon to become 1st Guards Division. The commission instead sent her off to a medical training facility, where she took an accelerated course to become a medic. Determined to do her part, Lyuba made her way to the local military commission and insisted that they send her to the front. She was still living in an orphanage when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. We had a terrible famine there in 1933, and the young girl was orphaned.
Lyuba Zemska was born in 1923 in Kharkov, about 400 miles south of Moscow, in my own native Ukraine. This account centers on one of the hundreds of thousands of women who entered military service during World War II. We men might have thought their hands were too weak for weapons, but there were women soldiers who did not wish to stand on the sidelines at this grave time for the Motherland. As the poet Sergey Vikulov said, “They have thrown down the glove to Russia.” Not only men but also women picked up this glove.
Loza, Tankist na “inomarke.” Pobedili Germaniiu, razbili Iaponiiu.
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