Katya, the young and seemingly innocent girl with whom the group of Russian men fall in love and Masha, the girl from the poor city who is raped and forced to show a kind of reciprocal love from the German captain who falls madly in love with her. The fact that Katya had the ability to turn Russian men into public displays of their compassion and love for her is a testament to women, more specifically Russian women. Masha makes an extremely prestigious and disciplined German captain fall madly in love with her beauty, to the point that he claims that she and the Russians have driven him crazy and distracts him by jeopardizing his missions to retake the house that the Russian soldiers occupy. This not only reinforces the opinion and stereotype that Russian women are attractive, but also takes a swipe at Germans by implying that they are mentally weak. Women in Russia can join the army even if they are eighteen years old. This can be seen when Katya tells the Russian captain that she would like to join them in battle and he says yes, he loved her too and wanted to protect her. In fact, it is documented that the women in the real Battle of Stalingrad had a considerable impact on the world