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The 2015 film Battle for Sevastopol<\/em> is the true story of how Lyudmila Pavlichenko<\/strong><\/em>, a female Soviet sniper who killed more than 300 Axis soldiers during World War II, became a gal-pal of the first lady of the United States.<\/p>\n That\u2019s a topic so compelling in and of itself that it\u2019s worth putting up with\u00a0Battle for Sevastopol\u2019s<\/em> often clunky dialogue and uneven story-telling in order to appreciate its tale of feminism, violence, war-time love triangles and post-traumatic stress.<\/p>\n The doomed Soviet struggle to hold onto the besieged Crimean port is not actually the focus of this Russian-Ukrainian film. The original Russian title,\u00a0Indestructible<\/em>, is far more appropriate.<\/p>\n Over the course of just one year, Lyudmila killed at least 309 <\/em>enemy soldiers. That\u2019s more deaths than in all of the Rambo films combined<\/a>. And these were just the confirmed kills observed by a third party. Pavlichenko also doesn\u2019t count her first two victims, as they were \u201ctest shots.\u201d<\/p>\n Pavlichenko was wounded four times in battle and evacuated by submarine from the fall of Sevastopol to rally support for a second front in the United States. It was there that she developed a close friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt\u200a\u2014\u200aleading the first lady to reciprocate with a Moscow reunion in 1958.<\/p>\n
![combined<\/a>. And these were just the confirmed kills observed by a third party. Pavlichenko also doesn\u2019t count her first two victims, as they were \u201ctest shots.\u201d<\/p>\nPavlichenko was wounded four times in battle and evacuated by submarine from the fall of Sevastopol to rally support for a second front in the United States. It was there that she developed a close friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt\u200a\u2014\u200aleading the first lady to reciprocate with a Moscow reunion in 1958.<\/p>\nRead the Remainder at War is Boring<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2015 film Battle for Sevastopol is the true story of how Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a female Soviet sniper who killed more than 300 Axis soldiers during World War II, became a gal-pal of the first lady of the United States. That\u2019s a topic so compelling in and of itself that it\u2019s worth putting up with\u00a0Battle…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1286,2426,5582,4319,1898,1899,5786],"tags":[12212,12213,12214,6457,12215,12216,3913],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com\/slashfilm\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/rambo-death-chart.jpg\"){kind=link}