You didn't mention what kind of scope you're looking for so I have a few very different recommendations.

First, Night Witches by Bruce Myers is about women Soviet pilots in the Great Patriotic War. It primarily focuses on the so-called "Night Witches", the 588th Night Bomber Regiment/46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, but there's some good stuff about the other two, the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment and the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment. It includes the story of Marina Raskova personally petitioning Stalin to create all-women air regiments, along with oral histories from the women of the 588th themselves. Absolutely incredible book.

Now, forgive me as I commit the sin of recommending a couple books I haven't finished yet because I have a bad habit of not returning to books I've started. For a much, much wider scope on the Great Patriotic War, David M. Glantz's When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler is a good book on the topic and covers the whole period of active combat, plus the how both sides' forces were organized and arranged in the lead up.

I know you said no memoirs, but maybe the memoirs of the Marshal of the Soviet Union is a little different? Georgy Zhukov wrote Marshal Zhukov's Greatest Battles in which he details the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Berlin. It is also furnished with some maps to give context to what he's talking about at times. It is a memoir, but it's a much wider picture than a memoir from a frontline soldier or something like that. But if that's not what you're looking for, apologies.

This last book is definitely not what you're looking for but I'm going to put it in here for anyone passing by that's interested. I'm going to preface this with an extreme content warning because the contents of this book are beyond harrowing. I cannot emphasize that enough. What the Soviet people experienced during and after Operation Barbarossa is a hell visited upon the Earth that we hopefully will never be able to fully comprehend, because hopefully we will never experience such a thing. The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich is an compilation of oral histories from Soviet women veterans. It is incredibly important for that reason, but it is an extremely hard read.

I had to put it down after that and haven't been able to return to it since.

she must've fucking hated him lmao

did badposting spill over into /r/trueanon or something? why are they all talking about beans

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: No

There's a few copies up on youtube apparently. This version has music and this version is completely silent is completely silent. Both have some additional contextual information at the beginning and end about the film and how the version we have today was reconstructed. What we have is thanks to a shorter version of the original film, Gesetze der Liebe, being preserved by the Soviet Gosfilmofond.

My understanding (which may be wrong or out of date) is that no completely whole copy of Anders also die Andern exists. The copies that exist are fragments pieced together. I don't know how much is missing. If I remember correctly, the version I saw was around half an hour or so, and it was on youtube somewhere. It must've been mostly complete because the story was fairly coherent. It's also the only recording I know of of Hirschfeld himself, as he plays himself as an expert witness on queerness in a legal case about one of the characters being blackmailed for being gay, which is something he did in reality quite a lot.

I love Coming Out!!! It's such a great movie especially for what it was and what it was trying to do. I think you could easily argue it is the spiritual successor to Anders also die Andern (trans. Different from the Others which was a silent film released in 1919 and produced my pioneering sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. It was an attempt to use film to show that gay people are normal people but struggle immensely because of the persecution they face. Coming Out was essentially the GDR's version of that.

A lot of the austerity from the "One Big Beautiful Bill" was also slated to kick in after the midterms as well.

Extreme content warning, but if you want to know more about these kinds of places, these are some good articles: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/concentration-camp-army

https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/i-killed-a-thousand-of-my-men-in

The tl;dr is that theres a lot more places like this around Ukraine. Most who are press ganged get throw into theses places where the "training" is basically torture and they're killed if they try to escape. Often they're handcuffed for transport and sometimes even in barracks. Then units will come in seeking replacements and pick out people like cattle, with the so-called "assault regiments" getting first picks, who then use them in suicidal attacks. If you want some more reading, Peter Korotaev, the author of Events in Ukraine, places a lot of blame at the feet of Western media for creating the incentive for flashy but tactically and strategically worthless, or even outright disadvantageous, "counter-offensives" to create headlines that then encourage Western publics to continue supporting the war: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/the-media-and-the-bloodbath

Yes because they kidnap them, torture them, and then send them to the front lines with a couple weeks of training. That's assuming they don't die from the torture or from trying to escape. There are "training" camps in Ukraine that are surrounded by mines to keep the press ganged people inside.

It's certainly plausible but I doubt they feel the need to do something so risky. The deep state will continue to chug along as normal regardless of the outcome. Despite the DSA wave, it isn't enough (yet) to throw a wrench into the genocide machine. Only if such a scenario was being threatened would I think they'd cross the line into open manipulation of the actual votes themselves, because being caught violating a process the average American deems quite literally sacred would cost the state tremendous amounts of legitimacy, especially at a time when the legitimacy of institutions is eroding across the political spectrum. At least that's my guess, I could be wrong and they're doing it or have done it before, but the propaganda machine is so well oiled to maintain the status quo that I would be shocked if they did something so drastic just to keep out a handful of demsocs and socdems out of a miniscule amount of power.

Editing to add: I think it's a mistake to think the deep state is wedded to the Trump coalition. The MAGA coalition will eventually collapse, whether that's because Trump drives the world economy off a cliff with the West Asia war or he leaves office or dies or whatever, the far right will eventually recoalesce into a more explicit American fascism. In the meantime, the Democrats will take their place governing in an increasingly forceful neoliberal manner by using the oppressive tools crafted by the Trump 2 admin, maybe even diffusing some popular discontent by using AOC as the president in '28 or '32 by lying about doing sixteenth-assed social democratic stuff again.

In what world is he relevant enough to campaign with??