Focusing on Svetlana Alexievich’s oral history book of witness У войныне женское лицо (The Unwomanly Face of War) this article considers war experiences and memories of Soviet women warriors of the Second World War. Alexievich interviewed with women veterans and rearranged their words in the form of monologue in The Unwomanly Face of War. Young Soviet women participated in the war in order to defend their fatherland against the Nazi aggressors. But they were full of fantasy and did not have any knowledge of or information on war and military. The Stalin government allowed them to serve in the army but it did not pay them any attention and care in respect of accommodation, military uniform and even particular phenomenon related to menstruation. While women soldiers, convinced of righteousness of the defence war, fought courageously they at the same time gave efforts not to lose female sensibility. They were more warm-hearted and humane than male soldiers and showed mercy even towards enemy soldiers or citizens of a belligerent country. Despite all their contributions they did not receive social and political recognition or rewards after the end of the war. They were subjected to cold treatment and forced to silence because of their being women. Their memories had been buried for a long time and began to revive only slowly. The face of war is not only unwomanly but inhumane at all.