![]() Not wanting her son to live under a swastika, she enlists as a sniper in the Soviet army where her extensive shooting training comes in handy. It is then that she develops her motto of Don’t Miss.Ī few years later, Mila is a fourth year history student working as a researcher in an Odessa library when Hitler invades Ukraine. After a scene where Mila’s estranged husband takes their 5-year-old son without her knowledge and teaches him to shoot a rifle that the boy can barely hold, Mila resolves to learn to shoot a rifle with perfect accuracy and to be both mother and father to her son. ![]() When we first meet Mila, she is in her early twenties, raising her young son with the help of her parents. The Diamond Eye is a novel about the real life Soviet sniper, Lyudmila (Mila) Pavlichenko. ![]()
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