Well one of my little habits, because I'm a dude, is when I see a picture of a girl from the past I wonder if I you brought her through a time portal ,or something, to today and gave her a workover, would she be hot?
So here is a image I came across from a google image search:
Hot or not?
She has potential. I wish the picture was color but hey what can you do? So, I'd say she has "hot potential" enough to be "hot."So I click on the link to provide context on who this chick is and BAM!
Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko was a soldier for the Soviet Union and a Soviet sniper, arguably the greatest female sniper who ever lived.Holy crap. Here I thought this was some soviet deb posing with daddie's war gear and she's killed more men than SARS!
In June of 1941, while Pavlichenko was studying history at the Kiev University, Nazi Germany launched the war on Soviet Union (see also Operation Barbarossa), whereupon she rushed to join the military. At the recruiting office, she requested to join the infantry and carry a rifle. The recruiter laughed at her and suggested a nurse specialization. Being strong willed, she refused, pulling out a marksmanship certificate to prove her worth. Pavlichenko joined the Red Army's 25th Infantry Division and became one of the 2000 Soviet female snipers, of whom only about 500 survived the war. As a sniper, she made her first two kills near Belyayevka, using a Soviet Mosin-Nagant 5-shot bolt action rifle (adapted for sniping with a P.E. 4-power scope). It fired a 148 gr (9.6 g) bullet at a velocity of 2800 ft/s (853 m/s), being effective out to 600 yd (550 m).
Pvt. Pavlichenko fought about two and a half months near Odessa, where she recorded 187 kills. When the Germans gained control of Odessa, her unit was pulled to be sent to Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula. In May 1942, Lieutenant Pavlichenko was cited by the Southern Army Council for killing 257 German soldiers. Her total confirmed kills during WWII was 309, including 36 enemy snipers.
So being a little set back, I had to re-evaluate my hobby, you know? It's time to do a little deep soul searching. It's one thing to just say "hot or not" but what about the person underneath the image? She has further attributes that costitute a truly different persona behind that image. Are we not more than the sum of the understanding that others can derive externally? Further information had exposed a flaw in my scheme. So as my loyal readers, I come to you with question about my practice of "hot or not" evaluation:
Does the fact that she "old school kiboshed" 309 Nazi Germans validate imagining her in leather because I kinda get a Sondra K vibe from that? I just don't see her in a sun dress.
