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Olena Stepanivna, photo

The war heroine Olena Stepanivna was awarded the Silver Medal for Bravery for services in the battle of Makivka in early 1915

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    Olena Stepanivna

    The war heroine Olena Stepanivna was awarded the Silver Medal for Bravery for her dedication during the Battle of Makivka in early 1915.

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    Women in the Trenches

    For a long time, the imaginary dichotomy between the ‘masculine front’ and ‘feminine homeland’ made it possible to make subtle distinctions between the various fields women worked in during the First World War. Why should we look for them in the trenches when their place was on the home front anyway?