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Nadezhda

Remembering Nadezhda Popova, A Soviet Combat Pilot and WWII ‘Night Witch’

Arts, Culture & Media

Nadia Popova has passed away in Moscow, aged 91. Popova was awarded numerous medals in World War II, including Hero of the Soviet Union. She and her comrades were known by the Germans as the “Night Witches.”

Husband of Pussy Riot Band Member says Russian Trial ‘Smelled of the Middle Ages’

Conflict & Justice
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