Mariya Oktyabrskaya Was Badder

Name a bitch badder than Taylor Swift 😍🤭😤 Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrs­kaya: her husband was killed by the Nazis in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa. She went to the Soviet gov’t and demanded to get a tank to kill Nazis. The gov’t relented and she killed Nazis with her tank. ПОДРУГА

The meme contrasts a tweet praising Taylor Swift as an exceptionally tough woman with the story of Mariya Oktyabrskaya, a Soviet woman who became a tank driver after her husband was killed by the Nazis and used her tank, named “Girlfriend,” in combat. The punchline is that Oktyabrskaya’s real-life bravery makes the original comparison look dramatically understated, so the image is sent as an exaggerated correction or historical one-upmanship. EN: The meme contrasts a tweet praising Taylor Swift as an exceptionally tough woman with the story of Mariya Oktyabrskaya, a Soviet woman who became a tank driver after her husband was killed by the Nazis and used her tank, named “Girlfriend,” in combat. The punchline is that Oktyabrskaya’s real-life bravery makes the original comparison look dramatically understated, so the image is sent as an exaggerated correction or historical one-upmanship.

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