Episode 488-One Shot, One Kill: Soviet Snipers of the Eastern Front

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Posted On September 23, 2024

From painful experiences during the Spanish Civil War and the Winter War against Finland, Soviet Russia started several sniper schools. Hence when the Axis came and the Eastern Front was born, these men and women took the fight to the enemy. But not as much as their greatest sniper, Ivan Sidorenko. He was self taught and would go on to teach hundreds more the craft of snipping. 

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