Interview with Chris Berman
"[Post-war, Soviet] women were given rights that were even beyond other countries at the time. Both boys and girls received equal education. When it came time to go into the workforce, women could be engineers, chemists, designers, factory workers, or any profession that a man could enter into. Many women learned to fly in Soviet flying clubs. These clubs were free to join. By 1941, there were about 3000 licensed women pilots in the USSR (Mostly from Russia and Ukraine)."
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