Tanya was with a group of men one day in Stalingrad. She was 17 and had blown up a tank the previous day using a grenade while the men were staying back and yelling for someone to stop it. There had already been several times where she had said that the men could have easily taken a grenade and done the same thing themselves. One of the commissars decided that she should be given a courage award. The NKVD was telling everyone how brave she was. A boy had written an essay saying that she was his hero. There was an officer who was saying that she was “brave and amazing.” The NKVD had published a feminine picture of her wearing a uniform with a skirt on the cover of a magazine and they were constantly repeating how brave she was.

When one of the men said something about how brave she was, Tanya said that she wasn’t a pussy faggot. She said that all of the men should have been willing to do what she did, and she shouldn’t have to do things that are for men, and all the men were effeminate beta males because they had not done the things that she had. Tanya said that she hoped her boyfriend in the NKVD would notice her. He was a war hero and Tanya said that he wasn’t a “sensitive beta male.” One of the soldiers started begging her to have sex with him and said that her boyfriend that she wanted was a douche bag and an asshole. Tanya started slapping the men and told them to stop being such effeminate beta males and she might be interested in them if they did the same things that she did and didn’t expect her to be like a man.

A commissar started bringing Tanya into the room where she would be given a courage award. He opened the door and there was a crowd of reporters on the other side as the 1977 Soviet national anthem was playing. Tanya saw her boyfriend smile at her across the room. They brought Tanya into the brightly lit room. Khrushchev gave her a courage award and talked about how brave she was. Then they brought the boy to meet his hero.