Revolutionaryy women

06/07/2022

Asma Mahfouz

Asma Mahfouz
And here is the character of modern realities for you: one of the founders of the very movement “April 6”, which demanded the resignation of Mubarak in Egypt. This woman is credited with starting the Egyptian uprising in 2011: she allegedly recorded a video message calling for riots in Tahir Square

03/07/2022

Blanca Canales

Blanca Canales
She participated in the Puerto Rico uprising against the United States, about which much became known only recently ... So, first, Blanca organized the Daughters of Liberty party, the women's branch of the nationalist party of Puerto Rico. And then, when in 1950 the party decided to defend its interests by force of arms, it took up arms. The fight was short-lived, the Puerto Ricans were captured and sentenced to life in prison

02/07/2022

Sophie Scholl

Sophie Scholl
It's the same story from World War II, but sad. The 17-year-old student stood at the origins of the German organization "White Rose", whose goal was a non-violent struggle against fascism. Well, how ... In general, they did not really have time to fight: the members of the organization (including Sophie) were arrested for distributing anti-Hitler leaflets at the university and executed.

30/06/2022

Lakshmi Sahgal

Lakshmi Sahgal
Indian independence activist, also known as Captain Lakshmi. In World War II, she fought on the side of Japan, then was captured by the British, from where she was released under public pressure. In India, Lakshmi was greeted as a heroine

29/06/2022

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29/06/2022

Rosa Luxembourg

Rosa Luxembourg
The eternal champion of communist ideas, during the First World War she was subjected to repression for anti-war propaganda and spent about 4 years in camps. Outwardly, Rosa was completely unattractive: small stature, lameness and irregular features, but liveliness and charm did their job, and Luxembourg easily found lovers in the areas she needed. She was killed in 1919, along with her colleague Karl Liebknecht, after the uprising of the Berlin workers was suppressed.

28/06/2022

Inessa Armand
How can one not mention here another woman of Lenin, another female face of that revolution? She was not only Ilyich's mistress, but also his confidant, and besides, she really actively took part in revolutionary activities. But, frankly, more is known about her personal life than about her revolutionary merits: after working as a governess in the Armand family, she married their eldest son, and after his death, her youngest

28/06/2022

Nadezhda Krupskaya

Nadezhda Krupskaya
She participated in the October Revolution not just as "Lenin's wife": Krupskaya was in the organization of the Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, was the Deputy People's Commissar of Education, and also actively conducted anti-religious propaganda. In general, not a "free application" to an active spouse, but an independent fighter for his ideals.

28/06/2022

Vera Zasulich

Vera Zasulich
A socialist, terrorist, populist and writer, in the winter of 1787, she shot at the mayor of St. Petersburg F. Trepov. At the trial, she so subdued the jury that she was completely acquitted - despite the fact that the prosecutor asked to sentence Vera to 20 years of hard labor! After the trial, Zasulich wandered around abroad, in 1917 she returned to her homeland, but, having seen the revolution up close, she began to harshly criticize the Bolsheviks. Died of pneumonia 2 years later.

28/06/2022

Anne Josepha Theroigne de Mericourt

Anne Josepha Theroigne de Mericourt
The heroine of the French Revolution, as they say, is a person with a difficult fate and easy behavior. Whomever she has not been in her life: a servant, a companion, a mistress of an English officer, a singer, a girlfriend of a castrato singer ... And then a revolution happened in France, and de Mericourt found her true calling!

28/06/2022

Boadicea (Boudicca)

Boadicea (Boudicca)
The wife of Prasutag, the leader of the British Itsego tribe, who, after the death of her crowned husband, decided to rule on her own, not content with the role of an inconsolable widow. But the Roman emperor Nero deprived her tribe of their ancestral lands, and Boadicea herself of her title.