You never know bravery until tested and up against true life/death situation. Whenever I feel my life is difficult or stressed, I remind myself of people who had to endure war times like WWII and sometimes sacrificed their lives for posterity and freedom. I’m humbled and grateful. Women (or anyone who sacrifices for others) like this should always be honored and never forgotten.
Lepa Radić was a communist. Communists do not sacrifice their lives for prosperity or freedom. The reason you were free to write your post here is not the result of communism. Learn some history.
Thank you very much for such a professional war-era documentary. This is my contribution: You showed the photo of Nadezhda Popova, who completed her first solo flight when she was 16 years old. She later became a flight instructor. Nadezhda also was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Regiment (aka: The Night Witches) during the Second World War who achieved significant domestic publicity after completing 18 bombing sorties in one night with navigator Yekaterina Ryabova. She died peacefully at the age of 91 years old in Moscow, with the rank of Colonel.
Lepa Radic was Yugoslavian partisan, 17 year old. She was hang in Bosanska Krupa, town in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Executors were from 7 SS Division " Prinz Eugen". She is Yugoslavian National Hero. During WV ll about 25000 women -Yugoslavian partisans was KIA and 40 000 WIA.
Hajrija. They knew their fate ( partisan )f captured as they where hiding in civilian clothes among their people.They sure as hell didn't take any prisoners , it was kill and run.
@@rolandschramm3662 The whole situation was absolutely brutal with reprisals and shooting of civilian hostages, my grandfather who was in the Yugoslav partisans told me they didn't take many prisoners ether. I personally know of 3 mass graves where captured German soldiers were tied together with barbed wire and shot into a ditch.
Prince Eugene SS 7th-Div. were a notorious bunch of lowly cowards thugs brutes & the scum of the Earth. Hail! We salute you dear Lepa Radic. Bless your soul young lady & damn all Prince Eugene members to Hell.
All communists were partisans, but not all partisans were communists... Surprisingly for some, there was a significant number of priests of different religions among the partisans...
If the younger generation of women only know Cardi B or the Kardashians as strong female figures? Who's fault is that? If you let the internet teach your children who to idolize, that's on the parents. I some how get your comment, but perhaps this is not the forum for it.
Can only imagine the hardships. well done uploader xx. your helping people remember and learn from our horrendous evil past, in the hope of any sort of future ahead for us all x
(Our) being the key word, as in every country. What the Russian soldiers did to the German women that were not soldiers or even on board with the Nazi were horrific. Not sure why it hasn't been covered that much but then again neither are the Russian women
@@stuartewoldt1513 Very few Berliner women of any age ,from little girls to very elderly ,escaped being the victims of multiple rape by Russian soldiers encouraged by their Commissars.
Hitler actually acknowledged the superiority of the slavs at the end of the war. Of course it was still bullshit, as race or ethnicity were no key factors in the war, rather things like manpower, logistics, resources and such. But at least in his own deranged mindset he was consistent and expected the extermination of the German people as a consequence of the war
@@pg1448 you're spot on with this. He was consistent to the end! In one of his speeches he said if he is defeated, then German nation doesn't deserve to live and he did expect that Slavs will exterminate Germans considering what he did to them. It's scary that a person with that kind of mind was able to hypnotise majority of Germans and almost led them into their extermination.
Excellent video as always, @TheUntoldPast. I first learned about WWII in 10th grade History class. I was 15. We were shown films of people in the concentration camps. I have been a student of that part of history since. Your videos about the War have been integral to my learning more about the big picture and has helped me see so much more. Cheers, friends.
The USA concentrationcamps for the Japanese citizens in USA? Or didn't they show you that? The allied camps for the German soldiers who are forced to walk through minefields after Germany surrendered Or didn't they show you that either?
@@janee7995 Well, it was 1983, so I couldn't say for certain, but I don't believe so. I grew up in CA and have always known about the Japanese internment camps because my Dad told me. I've also heard George Takei speak of it for decades. Allied camps for Germans: no. Being shown films in class was a bit of a rarity, hence the deep impression it made. Your comment comes off a bit angry. Not sure why. With RUclips, the History Channel, and more, I've learned so much more.
Did your school teach you about Eisenhower’s Rhine Meadows Death Camps? He murdered 4 million Germans who were surrendered soldiers after the war was over by exposure and starvation.
@@loisreese2692 I'm sorry to say Lois that you won't find the whole truth on RUclips or the History Channel. At best you'll find half truths or lies by omission. To discover the truth you really need to do independent research and expand your source material.
It is no wonder that almost every family in the former Soviet Union had one or more of their members killed in that war. More than 25 million dead (soldiers and civilians) Germany about 6 million mainly soldiers) the British and the US about 400-600 thousand dead mainly soldiers. That's why that war has had such an effect up to this date in the Soviet and today Russian psyche. And I think it's a shame because the European Union chose to honour the day of the WWII (9th of May) as the day of birth of "Europe" EU, on the very day the Russians honour that day to remember the great patriotic war. The effort to downgrade and eventually forget what happened then is obvious along with the effort to distort history facts (e.g. EU parliament "voted" a resolution that acknowledged that the ones who started WWII are the Nazis and the Soviets). It seems that time goes by, social conditions change, but people remain the same ready to repeat the same policies they once deplored, but in essence embrace, without even understanding they are doing the same things. I think Nazism has far deeper roots within western European civilization and expressed many more than what is only related by official History to a group of "bad" Germans with Hitler as leader. That's why a lot of them fought along with the German army especially in the eastern front
Well said!!!!! After years of research the Russians now believe 27 million of their citizens were killed/murdered by the Wehrmacht......even today in Ukraine the SS are celebrated by the state and Europe turns a blind eye.....
@Ryan Shirtz What you say is right. Especially for the thousands of Polish officers who died by the hands of Beria and Stalin. I am not an expert in history-but from what I know there were also Finnish soldiers' divisions fighting the Soviets along the Wehrmacht. And what was the Polish approachment towards it's neighbours, especially Czechoslovakia, before the war? How many millions of Soviets died in the hands of Stalin? How many more Russians suffered in the hands of Stalin before and after the war? Russians, and generally the Soviets, did not fight for Stalin, nor for communism in which they had suffered, but to defend their motherland. And also how many German young people had to leave their families and face the reality of war and death in europe and the eastern front. Not all of them were fantasized by Hitlers' Lebensraum. They wanted to live a normal life and many of them did not come back. These all are real history and one has to look deep into it, up to the lives-and souls-of ordinary people to understand what happened. These were historic events triggered and planned by the then leaderships of those countries. What I am trying to say is that, instead of revisiting and remembering what happened then so as to get insight of what happened then and not repeat it, especially todays' Europe's (EU) leaders choose to downgrade it, even not refer to it as if it didn't happen. Something which can not be done by the Russians for the reasons I mentioned in my first comment. Result: Since 1992, with the downfall of the Berlin war, communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, instead of having a peaceful time and cooperation of countries, all hell broke loose and we had countless wars (middle East, Yugoslavia, North Africa) initiated primarily by European countries (Britain, France, Germany, Italy etc) USA and NATO, who should have been taught by what happened in WWII. Instead they see enemies and adversaries everywhere. The world is actually RUNNING towards WWIII
@@daviddoran3673 yes nowadays the west directs propaganda against Russia, and the history convieniently forgotten, truth is the Russians kept hundreds of nazi divisions busy, and now the west forgets that as well as many Eastern European’s who backed the nazis, and we’re told they’re ok. People in the west, especially USA are fed some real twisted accounts of current world affairs, it’s ok to go round destabilising countries who don’t agree with USA, or smash Arab countries to bits whilst supporting murderouse gangs calling them freedom fighters, life is a capitalist blag
All you quit bickering. And more than that stop that shameful copy and paste posts trying to pass information off as your own intellectual contribution.
The Soviets were one of the first to use females in combat, they found out that a woman can kill a Nazi as good as a man, and in many cases better. They also had the night witches, that was a group of women that flew night attack aircraft and would wreak havoc on the Germans, they shot down many transports at night brining supplies to the German troops, plus they bombed and straffed anything that moved.
I guess for all Stalin's faults, sexist, Neckbeard, ,Incel and creepy he was not. He at least got laid on a regular basis...willingly Yakov, Vasily, Svetlana and Alexander Davydov(illegitimate and not recognized as his in life but has a grandson, Yuri Davydov proved via DNA in April 2016 through Alexander Burdonsky: eldest son of Vasily Stalin. Apparently, Stalin did it with a 14 year old girl during one of his exiles from Georgia. Yes. Being with a 14 year old is unquestionably considered creepy as fuck this day and age but was considered acceptable in many parts of the world in the early 1900s and earlier and unfortunately still is in some parts of the world, even codified into law and local culture
They were never the first, the early Celts had women fighting and at times leading them, and I am sure they were not the only ones especially in do or die community situations those that were able to fight did.
@@stevenconnor4221 well the first relatively major and modern power to employ women in combat arms not just administrative or support elements that other militaries of that time like the U.S. and U.K. many of that time didn't allow women at all.
4:44 till 5:10 are all pictures of Yugoslav partisans (you can see "titovka" cap), not soviet ones, and Lepa Radić 5:10 was also Yugoslav (Bosnian Serb) partisan, not russian
About this video, some are making the point that snipers always deservedly get treated with the harshest of methods; perhaps. But to present and or reflect on German values as anything civilized is absolutely ludicrous in the face of concentration camps and especially the fact that German Wehrmacht, upon entry into the Eastern front had a whole army of human extermination units called Einsatzgruppen (soldiers of death) who were responsible for rounding up defenseless Slavic, Roma and Jewish civilians and their children in the thousands and massacring them en masse in the forests all over Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics and Moldavia. Ultimately, the most gruesome, horrific, brutal acts of human genocide were committed by German forces thus resulting in the Holocaust of 6 plus million lives. It was this rampant German beastly brutality that summoned the Russian people to fight with all the resources available at a cost of 24 million lives. Eternal Respect and Honor to the Russian women for their acts of bravery in defense of their homeland. If not for them....
@@chrisclark719 When you're lauding the heroic values of a Soviet extermination machine that was every bit as evil as the "Nazi" political ideology it was fighting, the only dim thing around here is a chance at reality. The brave Soviet women were allies of the Germans when the war started and helped crush and exterminate the heroic Poles. Want to talk "civilized'? Katyn forest? The Baltic forest fighters? The untold millions of their own the Soviets exterminated. The millions they exterminated in the countries they occupied? Sure these women were indoctrinated enough to fight for their political ideology. Heroic? Of course. Brutal ending? None the worse than millions of others on both sides of this fight between scorpions. Interesting story but let's not perpetuate the myth of the angelic Soviet martyrs sacrificing all at the hands of the Nazi beast. You had millions either more than willing to throw down their weapons at the first chance to get rid of the Soviets. Millions more actively supported and fought for the Germans. It was the germans own stupidity and beastly murderous ideology that saved the Soviets. Missed the whole point? Hardly unless you want to swallow the propaganda whole.
@@oscarwildeghost "the heroic Poles" - damn, that's a good one! 🤣 Want to talk "civilized', bitch? Let me tell you about your heroes. They are not some fucking martyrs, sweetie. The Soviets had a damn good reason for attacking them - they were returning their rightful lands, that Poland occupied during the Polish-Soviet War. You know, the war *that Poland started.* During that war the Poles carried out mass executions of civilians and a full-scale ethnic cleansing. In 1919, Jozef Pilsudski set up concentration camps in which 70,000 Russian prisoners of war were tortured to death or executed. Among the prisoners were many officers, elite guardsmen, as well as civilians. The prisoners of war were completely deprived of medical assistance, including from representatives of the Red Cross. On October 20, 1920, Wilson, secretary of the POWs Department of the American Christian Youth Association, visited Prisoner Camp No. 2 in Wadowice. He testifies that people were severely ill and their clothes were rotting. The wounded lay for weeks without bandaging, worms started to grow in their wounds, and an unbearable stench stood in the barracks. The prisoners were forbidden to go outside, even to relieve themselves. They were fed with scraps, used as a pulling force when transporting goods and as live targets for shooting. On December 2, 1920, the High Commissioner for Epidemic Control and Colonel of the Medical Service, Professor Godlewski, reported to the Polish Minister of War Sosnkowski that on November 24 he visited the Wadowice POW camp together with representatives of the League of Nations. One of the representatives, Professor Madsen, described what he saw as follows: *"what is happening in this camp is perhaps the most horrifying thing that I have seen in my life."* Godlewski himself says the following about the conditions in which prisoners are kept: - "The situation existing there is simply inhuman and contrary not only to all the requirements of hygiene, but also to culture in general." - "The prisoners who were there made me shudder with their appearance: to such an extreme they were starved, emaciated and exhausted." - "If this state of affairs continues, in less than 100 days, everyone in the camp will die out." Among the Polish prisoners of war, about 3,000 died. And not because of poor conditions, but from typhus. Nuff said. Well, Russians were not the only ones who were massacred by the Poles. They also did it to the Germans. Just two words: *Bloody Sunday.* Poland cannot into space, but Poland can into genocide, I guess. Should have killed more of those fucking dogs. Hopefully soon we will have a chance to correct this shameful oversight 👌
(Writing this from the US) They deserve admiration and respect to a point. However keep in mind they were still communists, and almost immediately after WWII concluded Stalin began his quest to dominate the planet and spread his vision of communist hell. These women would be considered enemies (of the US) in any other situation except when a greater foe like Germany had to be defeated. Any time I research brave soldiers and military leaders, I can admire and respect them but always keep in mind one’s hero is another’s villain that must be eliminated to win the war. Rommel was a tactical genius but the Allies would have been much better off had a tank shell blown him to smithereens in 1942. Yamamoto was hunted and killed after Pearl Harbor, and I doubt anyone in the US felt the least bit bad about it.
I served with three women while in Iraq and there were incredibly fearless, fully cable of any mission in spite of the real or perceived danger. These Russian ladies were nothing less than incredibly brave, selfless, and their stories should be told. Rudyard Kipling quoted: "The female of the species is more deadly than the male"
Things didn't go well for ANY Sniper who was captured alive. Most didn't live too long after capture. The point made in this video is legitimate though.
The eastern front was a war of anything goes. The soviets would torture snipers to death. Cutting of limbs until they die. The accounts ive read is absolute horrifying want happend on the eastern front.
There was no Chivalry when it came to dealing with enemy snipers . Look at the famous Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä permanently disfigured in the face from an " outlawed exploding Russian bullet " Here's REAL ACHIVE FOOTAGE OF 3 NAZI SNIPERS SHOT DOWN as they advanced arms up and holding white flags ... what stays in my mind isn't the American GIs doing the killing its the GIs in the foreground , as if they just walked into an invisible wall > What did i just witness ? ) ! ruclips.net/video/UiFPI3x-3AY/видео.html
You can have nothing but admiration for all these woman who fought and died to defend their lands against the Germans. The price of victory is never cheap and they earned it by their blood sweat and tears.
I see no reason to honor those who fought for Bolshevik socialism, no more than I honor those who fought for National Socialism. Both were Left fascists. Is a Red Army rapist, thief and murderer better than a Waffen SS rapist, thief and murderer? Does it matter to a Ukrainian or a Pole what the nationality of his socialist slave master is?
@@DrCruel Spoiler Alert!....Nazis used the word Socialist but they didn't mean it! Their thing was racial supremacy and murdering Slavs, Roma and Jews.
@@tubthump Spoiler Alert! Socialists use words like "social justice" and "the abolishment of classes" and "equity" and "diversity" but they don't really mean it! All socialist regimes are nationalist and racist and engage in atrocities, genocides and general mayhem for the personal profit of their elite, which over time often becomes hereditary. Socialist regimes traditionally enslave their workforce once they secure their power in a country. Socialism is about making a socialist elite rich at the expense of everyone else. This has been the case from the Bolshevik Empire all the way to present-day socialist regimes like in Nicaragua, China, Venezuela, Vietnam, Cuba and Syria. This is, for example, why hair weaves and cotton from China was very likely produced by Uighur slaves. It is also why there are so few Hmong left in Indochina and so few tourists from North Korea. And so on. No need to thank me. Glad to help.
@@tubthump spoiler alert, Hitler used the word socialist, because he meant it. He also liked authoritarian socialism. As a matter of fact, there's not much difference between Hitler and the Democrats.
Deja de decir pavadas, en Normandía un oficia SS durante 40 días aguanto una Posición , causo decenas de bajas Anglo canadienses cayeron bajos sus bajas , cuando se rendio lo remataron , así como muchos franco tiradores del Herr , y eso que llevaban uniformes
@@josegonzalofernandez3812 he was an SS not a regular organization you muppet in Normandy they commited executions of allied soldiers hence they were treated with executions. Get you facts in order.
@@actonman7291 I hate those SS warriors, too, nevertheless they did be combatants and no franc-tireurs. You should really read the _Hague Land Warfare Convention_ *. . .*
They had no choice. If they are captured they are executed and raped. If they come back as prisoners of war, Stalin would have executed them. They had to fight to death and there was no way back in the battle field. These are brave people who fought TWO MONSTERS AT ONCE. God bless their soles. Men's too.
Heroines in desperate times. Thankfully in Britain are girls did vital work such as ferry various planes from factories to RAF airfields, land girls doing work on farms and driving Ambulances. They are the finest generation that our country has ever produced
@Lisa Stettin men have gone to war to protect their women and children. To put them in harm's way is just not right. Now they have been thinking of drafting women think it's not a good idea. Even after serving soldier's are waging a war.
@@neilstern1694 Don't forget the German's brought this war to Soviet, French, Polish and other women. When some b*stard kicks in their door what do expect?
@@ftdefiance1 and soviets brought death and destruction to the Baltic states, Ukraine, Poland etc. What's your point? This video is very one sided and unbalanced and makes it seem like they never committed atrocities themselves.
@@nickcarroll5034 I have no love for the USSR and spent 6 years learning how to fight them and their proxies. However Hitler invaded the USSR and committed atrocious acts. Don't apologize for the murderous SOB.
Early on in the war Russian women were brutal on captured German soldiers... many were used to interrogate and torture them. Once the word got out to the German troops fighting... no quarter was given.
A lot of citizens of the Soviet Union, s.a. Ukrainians, Estonian, Lithuanians were so only thru force. And so, they saw t Germans as liberators for 15' or so. So for them, often enuf, it was more like helping their liberators root out those who were collaborating w their Soviet oppresors.
@@paulbabcock2428 do you mean for fifteen minutes or so? lol. I don't know if that is what you mean, but it's true. The charm of the nazi liberators wore off very fast. It's OK though, they got RE-liberated by the nasty Boshelviks soon enough, and of course they were all Nazi spies, etc. Stuck between those two regimes was a bad place to be at that time.
Another fine example of why we should always fight against politicians gaining any more power, no matter what emergency they use to justify their power grabs.
it still depends on perspective and the era we live in , right now we have politicians that are influenced or controlled by powerful coporations (military industrial complex and etc.), people can elect another different president yet pretty much none will change especially on foreign policy
@@russellpetts5107 No Russell, it goes much higher than Hitler or Mussolini. The "powers" used narcissists like Hitler and Mussolini to perpetrate their wars in order to enriched themselves, to drive humanity into ever-smaller corrals, to install their early version of One World Government. They tried it with the Council on Foreign Affairs in 1921. When those efforts failed, they learned their lessons and gave it another go with what we have, today: The United Nations. This demonic organization is the front for One World Government. Rockefeller and the Rothschild clans are its true "founders and financiers." They have since enveloped in others of "like mind." You will never see a Rockefeller or Rothschild actually fighting a war. They instigate the world's conflicts for self enrichment, but more importantly, to install their New World Order and One World Government. They will use the United Nations as their launch point, insisting on a World Army (the members of the UN put up their countrymen to serve this Satanic force). They are in the process of stripping sovereignty from every nation, forming "unions" such as the European Union and other like-kind "transnational organizations" in North America, Asia, the Pacific. These "unions" will be brought together under One World Government. All "member countries" will permanently and irreversibly lose their national sovereignty. It's a plan. And those planning it will never fight. They'll have humankind fashion its own prison.
Right ! And those who initiate and start it will never ride ahead like John Wayne. But hide in a shelter waiting for the result - to celebrate or to run away.
So let me get this straight, Allowing women to make their own free choices on whether they want to serve in the armed forces or not is seen as barbaric by the Germans but torturing women like savages is a civilized act. Then they wonder why the Soviet retaliation against the Germans was so brutal, as if Germans showed up at their doorsteps with roses and chocolates. I can only imagine how enraged and how much animosity one would develop after witnessing your women and even children being treated this way. Any soldier caught torturing any human being (That goes for both sides, and including current militaries of the world) should be tried on the spot and executed. As far as I'm concerned if you enjoy that sort of thing that means you are seriously psychologically disturbed and vile to the core, and should have no business being in armed forces. Wars are horrific enought, so you want people with integrity, morals, and values being in charge to minimize atrocities, not sociopaths who are trying to exploit the situation to victimize people for their own sick indulgence.
@@nickcarroll5034 Do all fascista just make weak, sad little apologies? Or do some of them have balls big enough to admit their crimes? Just wondering...I only ever see the flaccid weaklings on RUclips.
@@nickcarroll5034 Not at all...just wondering why you had to change the subject so quickly in such a whiney limp way? All you right wingers seem to do this. I can't believe you are all weaklings.
@@John77Doe what is it that posses a human being to say shit like this? just in the idea that what? its funny for people to be replaced when you say something repulsive? no shit, brillant trolling its pathetic and sad, not edgy or annoying or clever or whatever your intention was
Excellent video......Im ashamed to say I Never knew women had fought in the actual Army against Germans!! I've Never heard this all this Information, Thank You 💯 ✌ 💓.
@@larrytan3822 I am merely showing my respect for a war of long ago. I dont mean it for tension in the world today. Besides, I am Russian by ancestry. To be blunt, I wouldn't be here and surely my Grand parents would be dead if these people did not stand up for themselves
Anyone on the eastern front had a very hard go at that the worst war the world had ever known. That’s for sure. But please understand, while the Soviets struggles were certainly legendary, there was no shortage of toughness and grit the world over with that generation. They’ve been called the greatest generation and with my rudimentary historical knowledge I understand why, but I disagree. I think there was also no shortage of even harder people during WW1, the American civil war, Napoleonic Europe and on and on. The further you go back, the further from this soft and privileged generation they got. I think a better name for my grandparents generation would be The Last of the Great Generations.
They were tough soldiers having to fight the awful nazis while serving an awful master themselves. Between Nazis and Bolsheviks, there is no good side.
@@dexterwestin3747 Obviously, there IS a good side considering Nazis' plans to genocide the Russian population leaving only 30 million alive as slaves.
This is why I love and respect the Russian people and most exclusively their women. They are the epitome of fearless bravery, loyalty and pure strength... this accompanied with incredible beauty and femininity. These are great people worthy of my love and respect.
Exactly! I totally agree with you. I wrote my research project/extended essay about women in Russia, and how their role have done a pardoxal chance since the fall of Soviet Union. It was really interesting to read and write about!
Believe it or not but some Russian women returned to hostility by their own families and towns because they WRONGLY believed that they were “Front Line women”. Some were even nurses and pilots too but if they served close or on the Front Line, then this would usually happen. It’s terrible but true.
Like in the US and UK, they were "Celebrated" and used as Propaganda tools, just until the Men returned from war. Then they were expected to return to domesticity.
No love for the Nazis in my family. They put my great Aunt in a Concentration Camp for spying for the Allies. The truth is she was such a gorgeous stunningly beautiful Woman that the Bosh couldn't keep their mouths shut around her. Always bragging about what they had done and most importantly were about to do. The Americans liberated Dachau in the very nick of time. She lived to a ripe old age of 97. God bless this brave Woman.
That terrible war started when a young man Bosnian Serbian, in his 20s, named Gavrilo Princip (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip) decided to assassinate the prince of the Habsburg family (Emperators of Austria or something similar), so that Bosnia instead of being part of the Austrian Hungarian Empire it became part of Serbia. The Austrians demanded that Serbia hand over the murderer of the prince, Serbia refused, Austria declared war on Serbia, Russia then declared war on Austria and it was already an avalanche effect. In Serbia a large number of monumentthey are dedicated to Gavrilo Princip ("in gratitude for what he did") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand
@@mariepi and then Germany invaded France through Belgium. This bothers me MORE about Germany than the Nazi's. When it comes to the Nazi's, I can see that they were just a reaction to Boshevism, however foul they ended up becoming. The Bolshis set themselves up so that only the REAL CRAZIES could take them out --> enter the nazi's. What the HELL was up with invading Belgium and France in 1914 though? On some pretense that France was allied with Russia who was defending the slavs in Serbia, etc. etc. The buildup and breakout of WWI is one of the absolute just most crazy things in world history. It should have just been another local Balkan war (they had just finished another one). Instead, it turned into all that calamity. But the German invasion of Belgium in 1914, and the cruelty with which it was carried out, is hard for me to get my head around. I can at least understand where the nazi's CAME from, but I can't understand the Belgium thing at all.
@@nickcarroll5034 I don't see the issue here apart from the whole GULAG thing. I wouldn't mind if we invaded those worthless pieces of shit a few more times . It was *fun* 👌
The Nazis thought that having women in the Red Army and the Partizans was a sadistic Bolshevism practice. What they did to these women who were immensely brave that was sadistic an horrendous! These women are heroes! Only thing - Lepa Radič was with the Yugoslavian Partizans. But thank you for showing these brave women xxx 🙏
Thank you for sharing this. More I learn about history more I appreciate my country America. I would have died gladly for those extraordinary women who of Russia. Country not Communism. 😪💋❤
My Grandfather served on the German side in WW2. After the war, and after most, not all, prisoners had been vetted, cleared and were able to emigrate, he went to Scotland and married my Grandmother, an Edinburgh local, and took her surname in favour of his German name. A while after settling down, he was questioned by UK authorities if he had witnessed incidences of German atrocity against Russian civilians or military. I take it he did not, and was not under suspicion anyway. He was no Nazi, but was a professional officer of the artillery.
My dad was in Germany with the British army after the war he had a great love for the German people he always said that normal German people weren’t nazis
@Dok Skwyr it seems you're afraid to finish your smart text with the proper words so that "... and determination *under the enemy fire attacking us* " would be great.
He's actually right ...The Devils Organ , multi rocket launcher, was considered against the Geneva Convention for use on ground forces so it was technically labeled as a low flying barrage antiaircraft weapon... to get around this . It i's not that unusual to see this .. The Browning M2 is technically an "anti-vehicle " weapon and not supposed to be used on ground troops technically.
Undeniably courageous, what a pity they were led by a monster who not only started WW2 in alliance with the Nazis by committing the Polish attrocity, buy who was responsible for the deaths of more Russians than Hitler.
holy fuck you can only believe this if you are a literal holocaust denialist god western propganda is working overtime to rehabilitate and make excuses for the literal fuckign nazis
They annexed the Baltic countries and deported people in mass to Siberia aside from murdering others there. This Soviet apologist Chris S never even will address any of it. He should crawl back from the rock he slithered out from.
@@nickcarroll5034 the nazi apologist Nick thinks anyone is interested in his deranged holocaust denial and i don't care that the soviets annexed the baltics they were better off under them than the jew hating nazis who run them this very day and, like you praise nazi collaborators and the perpetrators of the holocaust
Partisans are irregular fighters who do not carry their weapons in public and do not identify themselves as combatants. These individuals do not enjoy the same privileges as members of a country's regular armed forces. If captured, they are usually treated as criminals.
That gives you no excuse to execute in cold blood and without a fair trial all the partisans you capture: "The Geneva Conventions apply in wars between two or more sovereign states. Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention states that the status of detainees whose combatant status is in doubt should be determined by a "competent tribunal". Until such time, they must be treated as prisoners of war.[4] After a "competent tribunal" has determined that an individual is not a lawful combatant, the "detaining power" may choose to accord the individual the rights and privileges of a prisoner of war as described in the Third Geneva Convention, but is not required to do so.An individual who is not a lawful combatant, who is not a national of a neutral state, and who is not a national of a co-belligerent state, retains rights and privileges under the Fourth Geneva Convention and must be "treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial".[5]" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_combatant
World war 2 was actually a continuation of World War 1,the concessions the victors place on Germany were not to be accepted but rather opened the door per a personality such as that of Hitler!
One of the mentioned heroes, Radic? I believe she was Jugoslavian. Of course, there was a roughly similiar story. Especielly the Tito groups did had quite a few female soldiers. Historically, the Serbian army during WW1 had at least several renown and decorated female field soldiers.
french communist heroin resistance francoise bloch serazin was guillotined by nazis after torture at 28 in hamburg 1943 ;also olga bancic ; simonne sclhloss solange vigneron emilienne mopty francine fromond suzanne masson simonne cointe all young french communist women beheaded after torture ; may be a video on the brave francoise bloch serazin; she deserve it;she killed many nazis; she was engineer and the artificer of the parisian resistance in 1940/1942
Many brave women who fought for their country. I wish that the USA and Russia could have become friends rather than adversaries after the war. We fought on the same side back then. I just wish that our countries got along better today.
Even living closer to Alaska than to the WWII the entire Yakut population dropped by nearly 25% during the war, because without men (all went to the war) many women, children and enderly died from hunger, cold and diseases in Yakutia, the coldest region of the world. Even they had cattle and horses, but authorities said it was for the war, for soldiers, but in reality due to lack of roads and infrastructure most of the food was eaten by the authorities, but not the people.
IRL, the number of frontline combatants who were women are not that high. If you look at any photo of Red Army troops on the march, you'll notice the women typically aren't carrying any sort of weapon, load-bearing equipment or hardware related to fighting.
There were 750,000 women and 36 million men, who served in the Soviet military during WW2. That means that 2.5% of the Soviet military were females. 99.5% of these females served as medical personnel, clerks, and in logistics units. They were praised by the communist propaganda machine, which promoted radical feminism. A little known fact, however, is that many Russian military men despised them. Some of my relatives fought against, and were killed by the German Nazis. A few survived and told me war stories that were not very laudatory about "Stalin's Amazons." It was not uncommon for ordinary Russian women (who did not serve in the military) to express openly their contempt for the communist amazons after the war, calling them "field whores" or "lesbians." Almost all of the officers at or above the rank of major had at their disposal one or more (even veritable harems) of Stalin's amazons.
@@bprogressive Yeah because communism under the dirty barbarians of the Soviet Union is so much better. Just ask all the females they raped and killed (many of which were in their own fucking territory) and who can forget massacring civilians and enemies soldiers. And that’s the enemies wait till you see what they do to their own civilians during “peace time”.
@@bprogressive My father fought against THE FASCISTS + THE NAZIS. Several of my relatives were killed by them. The modern "progressives" are actually a COMMUNIST + NAZI hybrid. BTW, I don't want to discuss the contemporary Satanist FEMI--NAZIS, because I am afraid that I might throw up......
I chuckle at the though of treating russian female soilder prisoners badly. The average male soldier died of starvation when captured.... how much worse can it get???
Do you dislike women or something,. yes they treated all people badly but due to their masculine egos they really hated the sniper women. Rape is torture to and many were raped. It is a favourite to degrade women. The stabbings and mutilations tell us how angry the were at the Soviet women.. Delia Morris
Wow they even had them as Machine gunners and drove tanks …..Russian woman badass central.It disgusts me what they did to these women when I hear “humiliate her” just appalling.Disturbing what people due in war
This history is fascinating. To thing about so much misery inside the way people think is awful. In my world no one taught about war and suffering. I wish I had learned more in school or by my parents. Sad and scarey that so many lives were affected. God help us.
Thanks for sharing this excellent video which provides information about Russia and their armed forces which not many people know about. Those brave women in particular are an example to us all of bravery and courage in the face of terrible adversity.
what's unclear to me, is because the war on the eastern wasnt between two signatories of the geneva convention..is any of this abnormal for this conflict? were the germans treating female combatants as they treated every combatant and as the soviets treated axis combatants? I genuinely dont know, but I should have known after 10 minutes of this.
Agree its not very clear in this video. But yes, it is abnormal as generally (male) soldiers would be taken as prisoners of war, while any female soldier was executed.
@@sofiakauko9926 I looked around a little just to acid test some of what you said, and I was able to find pictures of soviet women POWs, as well as some articles that stated the axis executed all "partisans", men and women. Seems to be some consensus with the other comments that many of the women being discussed in the video are "partisans". Its definitely not black and white, there may be gender disparities, I dont have info to prove or disprove that, but its definitely more than a few arbitrary executions of men and fewer than all woman.
The Soviets were attacked by millions of German soldiers, if the Soviets used millions too, what was wrong? It's not a dictatorial regime, but a defense, Most Soviet people joined the red army because of revenge because their families were killed by German soldiers, not because of government coercion
The Soviets had it correct: if women want to be seen as equal then they have to risk their lives in wars just like the men. Contrast this with Britain. The women who wanted the vote had little intention of fighting in wars. In fact a number of them saw men who refused to fight in WW1 as cowards while not demanding they themselves be allowed to join up. The draft in the US is going to include women for the first time, which a lot of women are not happy about
it would be interesting to hear the stories of the Kosacks the British army sourrounded to the red army after war or the violation order that was given by the Russian army to its soldiers...
So let me get this straight, Soviets wanted women to have independence and make their own choices with their lives, they were not required to fight and Germans wanted their women washing dishes, cleaning and cooking at home.
Research how the women(like female defense workers in the US) were treated AFTER their usefulness was at an end. Yeah, right back to domesticity. They were "free and independent" as long as men weren't available.
@@lemsolaris67 The Italian fascists had female soldiers, even a general, and the Nazis didn't enforce gender roles strictly, they had female labourers, scientists, soldiers (including infantry towards the end of the war) and even a high ranking member of the Nazi party who was a founding member and SS leader, overall as bad as the Nazis were, the status of women's rights compared to men in Nazi Germany wasn't too bad by 1940s standards, Hitler was a socialist as were other members of his party, and even though he was a racist he still had a bit of the egalitarian side of Germany's socialist culture left in him which he applied to women and poor people, people these days just don't like talking about it because Nazis prove that being a socialist doesn't necessarily make you a better person than a capitalist.
You never know bravery until tested and up against true life/death situation. Whenever I feel my life is difficult or stressed, I remind myself of people who had to endure war times like WWII and sometimes sacrificed their lives for posterity and freedom. I’m humbled and grateful. Women (or anyone who sacrifices for others) like this should always be honored and never forgotten.
Totaly agree,i dont take every day life for granted
Com certeza e parabéns por suas palavras. Foram mulheres de fibra forte.
Lepa Radić was a communist. Communists do not sacrifice their lives for prosperity or freedom. The reason you were free to write your post here is not the result of communism. Learn some history.
@@ericbird1760 history is written by the victor and inherently biased. Learn some reality, Eric.
agreed ..much respect to you mate
Thank you very much for such a professional war-era documentary. This is my contribution: You showed the photo of Nadezhda Popova, who completed her first solo flight when she was 16 years old. She later became a flight instructor. Nadezhda also was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Regiment (aka: The Night Witches) during the Second World War who achieved significant domestic publicity after completing 18 bombing sorties in one night with navigator Yekaterina Ryabova. She died peacefully at the age of 91 years old in Moscow, with the rank of Colonel.
Wow
When you think how bad you think you have it. It's nothing like what these people went through.
I think about this alot
FACT.
Amen to that
I agree, look at our society today, thinking they have it so bad!
The silent generation were tough as hell. Our generation is a joke in comparison
Lepa Radic was Yugoslavian partisan, 17 year old. She was hang in Bosanska Krupa, town in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Executors were from 7 SS Division " Prinz Eugen". She is Yugoslavian National Hero. During WV ll about 25000 women -Yugoslavian partisans was KIA and 40 000 WIA.
Hajrija. They knew their fate ( partisan )f captured as they where hiding in civilian clothes among their people.They sure as hell didn't take any prisoners , it was kill and run.
@@rolandschramm3662 The whole situation was absolutely brutal with reprisals and shooting of civilian hostages, my grandfather who was in the Yugoslav partisans told me they didn't take many prisoners ether. I personally know of 3 mass graves where captured German soldiers were tied together with barbed wire and shot into a ditch.
@@thesayxx Brutal built on hate . Revenge was the order , humans turned into mindless ,shame less ,uncontrollable animals...
Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu ! Greetings from Romania !
Prince Eugene SS 7th-Div. were a notorious bunch of lowly cowards
thugs brutes & the scum of the Earth. Hail! We salute you dear Lepa Radic.
Bless your soul young lady & damn all Prince Eugene members to Hell.
CORRECTION Lepa Radić was Yugoslav partisan of Serb origin. She was killed in 1942 by Germans. In 1951 she was awarded Order of Peoples hero.
The partisans were the communists
@Sebastian Maximilian and you are so innocent- poooor naci solders...
@@a.f.7246 they fight for freedom
All communists were partisans, but not all partisans were communists... Surprisingly for some, there was a significant number of priests of different religions among the partisans...
@@MilanKV1 the majority of Yugoslav partisans weren't communists. The communist party took over covertly by force during 1945.
Notice how cardi B is considered strong and empowering but these women are almost forgotten
Yup. This generation is utterly bonkers.
What does Cardi B have to do with any of this? People having a positive view of her doesn't detract from anyone's view of these women.
@another Bigfoot...
Who is cardi B?
If the younger generation of women only know Cardi B or the Kardashians as strong female figures?
Who's fault is that?
If you let the internet teach your children who to idolize, that's on the parents.
I some how get your comment, but perhaps this is not the forum for it.
Cardi who?
Can only imagine the hardships. well done uploader xx. your helping people remember and learn from our horrendous evil past, in the hope of any sort of future ahead for us all x
(Our) being the key word, as in every country. What the Russian soldiers did to the German women that were not soldiers or even on board with the Nazi were horrific. Not sure why it hasn't been covered that much but then again neither are the Russian women
@@stuartewoldt1513 Very few Berliner women of any age ,from little girls to very elderly ,escaped being the victims of multiple rape by Russian soldiers encouraged by their Commissars.
& what are u going to do when the new world order takes over*? Are u going to sit down & do nothing?
@@horseman6468 this is kept out of history books
To the Victor's goes the written history
@@horseman6468 врун
Masha Bruskina didn't looked ashamed to me. She seemed collected, full of dignity. That placard was a badge of honor.
Was thinking the very same thing myself.
I am proud of Masha Bruskina.
@@archlich4489 Agreed.
My name was almost Masha. I would have been honored to share a name with her.
Индификация не доказана, доказано уничтожение еврейскими партизанами Беларуских деревень,,,,привет из Минска
To refuse to break under torture seems superhuman to me.
(Yet the Germans called the Slavs "untermenschen", inferior human beings.)
Takes some serious heart for that👍
Hitler actually acknowledged the superiority of the slavs at the end of the war. Of course it was still bullshit, as race or ethnicity were no key factors in the war, rather things like manpower, logistics, resources and such. But at least in his own deranged mindset he was consistent and expected the extermination of the German people as a consequence of the war
@@pg1448 you're spot on with this.
He was consistent to the end!
In one of his speeches he said if he is defeated, then German nation doesn't deserve to live and he did expect that Slavs will exterminate Germans considering what he did to them.
It's scary that a person with that kind of mind was able to hypnotise majority of Germans and almost led them into their extermination.
Excellent video as always, @TheUntoldPast. I first learned about WWII in 10th grade History class. I was 15. We were shown films of people in the concentration camps. I have been a student of that part of history since. Your videos about the War have been integral to my learning more about the big picture and has helped me see so much more. Cheers, friends.
The USA concentrationcamps for the Japanese citizens in USA?
Or didn't they show you that?
The allied camps for the German soldiers who are forced to walk through minefields after Germany surrendered
Or didn't they show you that either?
@@janee7995 Well, it was 1983, so I couldn't say for certain, but I don't believe so. I grew up in CA and have always known about the Japanese internment camps because my Dad told me. I've also heard George Takei speak of it for decades. Allied camps for Germans: no. Being shown films in class was a bit of a rarity, hence the deep impression it made.
Your comment comes off a bit angry. Not sure why. With RUclips, the History Channel, and more, I've learned so much more.
Did your school teach you about Eisenhower’s Rhine Meadows Death Camps? He murdered 4 million Germans who were surrendered soldiers after the war was over by exposure and starvation.
@@loisreese2692 I'm sorry to say Lois that you won't find the whole truth on RUclips or the History Channel. At best you'll find half truths or lies by omission. To discover the truth you really need to do independent research and expand your source material.
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It is no wonder that almost every family in the former Soviet Union had one or more of their members killed in that war. More than 25 million dead (soldiers and civilians) Germany about 6 million mainly soldiers) the British and the US about 400-600 thousand dead mainly soldiers. That's why that war has had such an effect up to this date in the Soviet and today Russian psyche. And I think it's a shame because the European Union chose to honour the day of the WWII (9th of May) as the day of birth of "Europe" EU, on the very day the Russians honour that day to remember the great patriotic war. The effort to downgrade and eventually forget what happened then is obvious along with the effort to distort history facts (e.g. EU parliament "voted" a resolution that acknowledged that the ones who started WWII are the Nazis and the Soviets). It seems that time goes by, social conditions change, but people remain the same ready to repeat the same policies they once deplored, but in essence embrace, without even understanding they are doing the same things. I think Nazism has far deeper roots within western European civilization and expressed many more than what is only related by official History to a group of "bad" Germans with Hitler as leader. That's why a lot of them fought along with the German army especially in the eastern front
Well said!!!!! After years of research the Russians now believe 27 million of their citizens were killed/murdered by the Wehrmacht......even today in Ukraine the SS are celebrated by the state and Europe turns a blind eye.....
@@daviddoran3673 no Ukraine does not celebrate the SS, that's just a typical anti-Ukrainian lie
@Ryan Shirtz What you say is right. Especially for the thousands of Polish officers who died by the hands of Beria and Stalin. I am not an expert in history-but from what I know there were also Finnish soldiers' divisions fighting the Soviets along the Wehrmacht. And what was the Polish approachment towards it's neighbours, especially Czechoslovakia, before the war? How many millions of Soviets died in the hands of Stalin? How many more Russians suffered in the hands of Stalin before and after the war? Russians, and generally the Soviets, did not fight for Stalin, nor for communism in which they had suffered, but to defend their motherland. And also how many German young people had to leave their families and face the reality of war and death in europe and the eastern front. Not all of them were fantasized by Hitlers' Lebensraum. They wanted to live a normal life and many of them did not come back. These all are real history and one has to look deep into it, up to the lives-and souls-of ordinary people to understand what happened. These were historic events triggered and planned by the then leaderships of those countries. What I am trying to say is that, instead of revisiting and remembering what happened then so as to get insight of what happened then and not repeat it, especially todays' Europe's (EU) leaders choose to downgrade it, even not refer to it as if it didn't happen. Something which can not be done by the Russians for the reasons I mentioned in my first comment. Result: Since 1992, with the downfall of the Berlin war, communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, instead of having a peaceful time and cooperation of countries, all hell broke loose and we had countless wars (middle East, Yugoslavia, North Africa) initiated primarily by European countries (Britain, France, Germany, Italy etc) USA and NATO, who should have been taught by what happened in WWII. Instead they see enemies and adversaries everywhere. The world is actually RUNNING towards WWIII
@@daviddoran3673 yes nowadays the west directs propaganda against Russia, and the history convieniently forgotten, truth is the Russians kept hundreds of nazi divisions busy, and now the west forgets that as well as many Eastern European’s who backed the nazis, and we’re told they’re ok. People in the west, especially USA are fed some real twisted accounts of current world affairs, it’s ok to go round destabilising countries who don’t agree with USA, or smash Arab countries to bits whilst supporting murderouse gangs calling them freedom fighters, life is a capitalist blag
All you quit bickering. And more than that stop that shameful copy and paste posts trying to pass information off as your own intellectual contribution.
The Soviets were one of the first to use females in combat, they found out that a woman can kill a Nazi as good as a man, and in many cases better. They also had the night witches, that was a group of women that flew night attack aircraft and would wreak havoc on the Germans, they shot down many transports at night brining supplies to the German troops, plus they bombed and straffed anything that moved.
I guess for all Stalin's faults, sexist, Neckbeard, ,Incel and creepy he was not. He at least got laid on a regular basis...willingly Yakov, Vasily, Svetlana and Alexander Davydov(illegitimate and not recognized as his in life but has a grandson, Yuri Davydov proved via DNA in April 2016 through Alexander Burdonsky: eldest son of Vasily Stalin.
Apparently, Stalin did it with a 14 year old girl during one of his exiles from Georgia. Yes. Being with a 14 year old is unquestionably considered creepy as fuck this day and age but was considered acceptable in many parts of the world in the early 1900s and earlier and unfortunately still is in some parts of the world, even codified into law and local culture
The ancient Scythian in the southern russian steppes already had female horse archers and the vikings settling in russia also had female warriors.
@@chrismc410 what wait are you saying what
Those dirty reds
They were never the first, the early Celts had women fighting and at times leading them, and I am sure they were not the only ones especially in do or die community situations those that were able to fight did.
@@stevenconnor4221 well the first relatively major and modern power to employ women in combat arms not just administrative or support elements that other militaries of that time like the U.S. and U.K. many of that time didn't allow women at all.
4:44 till 5:10 are all pictures of Yugoslav partisans (you can see "titovka" cap), not soviet ones, and Lepa Radić 5:10 was also Yugoslav (Bosnian Serb) partisan, not russian
Good call!!!
It's true. Lepa Radic is a Serbian partisan in Yugoslavia. She is a hero. R.I.P
Девушки герои. Они сражались за свой дом, за свою Родину, за мир на Земле. Вспомните Жанну Д'Арк, она тоже билась за Францию...
Girls are heroes. They fought for their home, for their homeland, for peace on Earth. Remember Joan of Arc, she also fought for France ...
About this video, some are making the point that snipers always deservedly get treated with the harshest of methods; perhaps. But to present and or reflect on German values as anything civilized is absolutely ludicrous in the face of concentration camps and especially the fact that German Wehrmacht, upon entry into the Eastern front had a whole army of human extermination units called Einsatzgruppen (soldiers of death) who were responsible for rounding up defenseless Slavic, Roma and Jewish civilians and their children in the thousands and massacring them en masse in the forests all over Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics and Moldavia. Ultimately, the most gruesome, horrific, brutal acts of human genocide were committed by German forces thus resulting in the Holocaust of 6 plus million lives. It was this rampant German beastly brutality that summoned the Russian people to fight with all the resources available at a cost of 24 million lives. Eternal Respect and Honor to the Russian women for their acts of bravery in defense of their homeland. If not for them....
And the Soviets did the exact same thing. The only difference between them was the Soviets were on the winning side.
Well said. Oscar's a bit dim he's missed the whole point. Very brave woman who stood up to the Nazi scum. And won albiet at one helluva cost.
@@chrisclark719 When you're lauding the heroic values of a Soviet extermination machine that was every bit as evil as the "Nazi" political ideology it was fighting, the only dim thing around here is a chance at reality. The brave Soviet women were allies of the Germans when the war started and helped crush and exterminate the heroic Poles. Want to talk "civilized'? Katyn forest? The Baltic forest fighters? The untold millions of their own the Soviets exterminated. The millions they exterminated in the countries they occupied? Sure these women were indoctrinated enough to fight for their political ideology. Heroic? Of course. Brutal ending? None the worse than millions of others on both sides of this fight between scorpions. Interesting story but let's not perpetuate the myth of the angelic Soviet martyrs sacrificing all at the hands of the Nazi beast. You had millions either more than willing to throw down their weapons at the first chance to get rid of the Soviets. Millions more actively supported and fought for the Germans. It was the germans own stupidity and beastly murderous ideology that saved the Soviets. Missed the whole point? Hardly unless you want to swallow the propaganda whole.
@@oscarwildeghost "the heroic Poles" - damn, that's a good one! 🤣
Want to talk "civilized', bitch? Let me tell you about your heroes.
They are not some fucking martyrs, sweetie. The Soviets had a damn good reason for attacking them - they were returning their rightful lands, that Poland occupied during the Polish-Soviet War. You know, the war *that Poland started.*
During that war the Poles carried out mass executions of civilians and a full-scale ethnic cleansing. In 1919, Jozef Pilsudski set up concentration camps in which 70,000 Russian prisoners of war were tortured to death or executed. Among the prisoners were many officers, elite guardsmen, as well as civilians.
The prisoners of war were completely deprived of medical assistance, including from representatives of the Red Cross. On October 20, 1920, Wilson, secretary of the POWs Department of the American Christian Youth Association, visited Prisoner Camp No. 2 in Wadowice. He testifies that people were severely ill and their clothes were rotting. The wounded lay for weeks without bandaging, worms started to grow in their wounds, and an unbearable stench stood in the barracks. The prisoners were forbidden to go outside, even to relieve themselves. They were fed with scraps, used as a pulling force when transporting goods and as live targets for shooting.
On December 2, 1920, the High Commissioner for Epidemic Control and Colonel of the Medical Service, Professor Godlewski, reported to the Polish Minister of War Sosnkowski that on November 24 he visited the Wadowice POW camp together with representatives of the League of Nations. One of the representatives, Professor Madsen, described what he saw as follows: *"what is happening in this camp is perhaps the most horrifying thing that I have seen in my life."*
Godlewski himself says the following about the conditions in which prisoners are kept:
- "The situation existing there is simply inhuman and contrary not only to all the requirements of hygiene, but also to culture in general."
- "The prisoners who were there made me shudder with their appearance: to such an extreme they were starved, emaciated and exhausted."
- "If this state of affairs continues, in less than 100 days, everyone in the camp will die out."
Among the Polish prisoners of war, about 3,000 died. And not because of poor conditions, but from typhus. Nuff said.
Well, Russians were not the only ones who were massacred by the Poles. They also did it to the Germans. Just two words: *Bloody Sunday.*
Poland cannot into space, but Poland can into genocide, I guess.
Should have killed more of those fucking dogs. Hopefully soon we will have a chance to correct this shameful oversight 👌
@@insomnious7592 😳
I had not heard some of these stories:) thank you for telling them!
My admiration and respect for all of these women. R.I.P. 💐
Agreed
Rip 😥😥😥🙏🙏🙏
(Writing this from the US) They deserve admiration and respect to a point. However keep in mind they were still communists, and almost immediately after WWII concluded Stalin began his quest to dominate the planet and spread his vision of communist hell.
These women would be considered enemies (of the US) in any other situation except when a greater foe like Germany had to be defeated.
Any time I research brave soldiers and military leaders, I can admire and respect them but always keep in mind one’s hero is another’s villain that must be eliminated to win the war.
Rommel was a tactical genius but the Allies would have been much better off had a tank shell blown him to smithereens in 1942.
Yamamoto was hunted and killed after Pearl Harbor, and I doubt anyone in the US felt the least bit bad about it.
100%
Rest in Paradise ❤️
Those women were a tough breed .I take my hat off to them.
1000%
I served with three women while in Iraq and there were incredibly fearless, fully cable of any mission in spite of the real or perceived danger. These Russian ladies were nothing less than incredibly brave, selfless, and their stories should be told. Rudyard Kipling quoted: "The female of the species is more deadly than the male"
you are full of chit
Yes as you say Sir
@@mrmeener625 ^ was bullied by women?
@@ccrider3435 if I had the power I would put you two idiots in combat against the Russians and Chinese with an all girl unit
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Lepa Radic was Serbian girl in partisans...not USSR at all. Many womens fight there.
Things didn't go well for ANY Sniper who was captured alive. Most didn't live too long after capture. The point made in this video is legitimate though.
True that - snipers seemed to make things a bit more personal...
The eastern front was a war of anything goes. The soviets would torture snipers to death. Cutting of limbs until they die. The accounts ive read is absolute horrifying want happend on the eastern front.
There was no Chivalry when it came to dealing with enemy snipers . Look at the famous Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä permanently disfigured in the face from an " outlawed exploding Russian bullet "
Here's REAL ACHIVE FOOTAGE OF 3 NAZI SNIPERS SHOT DOWN as they advanced arms up and holding white flags ... what stays in my mind isn't the American GIs doing the killing its the GIs in the foreground , as if they just walked into an invisible wall > What did i just witness ? ) ! ruclips.net/video/UiFPI3x-3AY/видео.html
@@sheepsfoot2 killing POWs is murder
@@keanur6112 what Accounts
You can have nothing but admiration for all these woman who fought and died to defend their lands against the Germans. The price of victory is never cheap and they earned it by their blood sweat and tears.
I see no reason to honor those who fought for Bolshevik socialism, no more than I honor those who fought for National Socialism. Both were Left fascists. Is a Red Army rapist, thief and murderer better than a Waffen SS rapist, thief and murderer? Does it matter to a Ukrainian or a Pole what the nationality of his socialist slave master is?
@@DrCruel Spoiler Alert!....Nazis used the word Socialist but they didn't mean it! Their thing was racial supremacy and murdering Slavs, Roma and Jews.
@@tubthump Spoiler Alert! Socialists use words like "social justice" and "the abolishment of classes" and "equity" and "diversity" but they don't really mean it!
All socialist regimes are nationalist and racist and engage in atrocities, genocides and general mayhem for the personal profit of their elite, which over time often becomes hereditary. Socialist regimes traditionally enslave their workforce once they secure their power in a country. Socialism is about making a socialist elite rich at the expense of everyone else. This has been the case from the Bolshevik Empire all the way to present-day socialist regimes like in Nicaragua, China, Venezuela, Vietnam, Cuba and Syria. This is, for example, why hair weaves and cotton from China was very likely produced by Uighur slaves. It is also why there are so few Hmong left in Indochina and so few tourists from North Korea. And so on.
No need to thank me. Glad to help.
@@tubthump spoiler alert, Hitler used the word socialist, because he meant it. He also liked authoritarian socialism. As a matter of fact, there's not much difference between Hitler and the Democrats.
defend their lands while they invaded, deported innocent people to gulags and stole the land of the baltic people for 50 years. Soviet Union can rot.
Bless the memory of these brave women.
@@projectparadise01 absolute garbage
I agree, we should praise the women of IS.
As they are no different.
@MY ASSHOLE IS GASPING FOR AIR Why not ?
Amen to that
@MY ASSHOLE IS GASPING FOR AIR I assume there is nothing you would do for your Nation?
Huge Respect to all Soviet union soldiers, both men and women.
A sniper whatever gender, age, race or nationality will be punished harder than a normie soldier.
Deja de decir pavadas, en Normandía un oficia SS durante 40 días aguanto una Posición , causo decenas de bajas Anglo canadienses cayeron bajos sus bajas , cuando se rendio lo remataron , así como muchos franco tiradores del Herr , y eso que llevaban uniformes
@@josegonzalofernandez3812 he was an SS not a regular organization you muppet in Normandy they commited executions of allied soldiers hence they were treated with executions. Get you facts in order.
That is not relevant a POW is a POW and killing him is murder
@@mkoschier
All that goes out the window often when brutal combat ensue and many perpetrators get away with murder literraly.
@@actonman7291 I hate those SS warriors, too, nevertheless they did be combatants and no franc-tireurs. You should really read the _Hague Land Warfare Convention_ *. . .*
They had no choice. If they are captured they are executed and raped. If they come back as prisoners of war, Stalin would have executed them. They had to fight to death and there was no way back in the battle field. These are brave people who fought TWO MONSTERS AT ONCE. God bless their soles. Men's too.
Very good channel , great content and researched well and told tactfully and respectful
*TO ALL THE NAMELESS HEROES THAT HISTORY FORGOT R.I.PARADISE AND NO MATTER WHAT SIDE YOU WERE ON THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE 😇✌🏿*
those that fought and served the nazi's should be tortured endlessly in hell....
Agreed. Brave….all.
Heroines in desperate times.
Thankfully in Britain are girls did vital work such as ferry various planes from factories to RAF airfields, land girls doing work on farms and driving Ambulances. They are the finest generation that our country has ever produced
If you think dead people read you tube posts you might want to seek some medical help.🤡
@@jdavison8551 correct although many did vote in 2020 for a hair sniffer, lol
Even if they did give up names, they still would have executed them.
@Lisa Stettin men have gone to war to protect their women and children. To put them in harm's way is just not right. Now they have been thinking of drafting women think it's not a good idea. Even after serving soldier's are waging a war.
@@neilstern1694 Don't forget the German's brought this war to Soviet, French, Polish and other women. When some b*stard kicks in their door what do expect?
@@ftdefiance1 and soviets brought death and destruction to the Baltic states, Ukraine, Poland etc. What's your point? This video is very one sided and unbalanced and makes it seem like they never committed atrocities themselves.
@@nickcarroll5034 I have no love for the USSR and spent 6 years learning how to fight them and their proxies. However Hitler invaded the USSR and committed atrocious acts. Don't apologize for the murderous SOB.
Good
Early for this upload! Got to admire the Russian women in WW2 what guts!
Thanks Lee!
Early on in the war Russian women were brutal on captured German soldiers... many were used to interrogate and torture them. Once the word got out to the German troops fighting... no quarter was given.
Сталинские фанатики ,,никаких правил войны ни к чужим, ни к своим
Yeah look at this a russian veteran interview. ruclips.net/video/5Ywe5pFT928/видео.html
@@nistaffsubs6787 awfull stuff
Just imagine what kind of evil person would turn in their own countryman (or woman) to the enemy.
A lot of citizens of the Soviet Union, s.a. Ukrainians, Estonian, Lithuanians were so only thru force. And so, they saw t Germans as liberators for 15' or so. So for them, often enuf, it was more like helping their liberators root out those who were collaborating w their Soviet oppresors.
@@paulbabcock2428 do you mean for fifteen minutes or so? lol. I don't know if that is what you mean, but it's true. The charm of the nazi liberators wore off very fast. It's OK though, they got RE-liberated by the nasty Boshelviks soon enough, and of course they were all Nazi spies, etc. Stuck between those two regimes was a bad place to be at that time.
@@tarpontim1715 Yep. As in not very long.
@@paulbabcock2428 Not Russians - they couldn't have though that.
@@adielstephenson2929 I didn't say Russians, I said Soviets. You do know the difference yes?
Another fine example of why we should always fight against politicians gaining any more power, no matter what emergency they use to justify their power grabs.
it still depends on perspective and the era we live in , right now we have politicians that are influenced or controlled by powerful coporations (military industrial complex and etc.), people can elect another different president yet pretty much none will change especially on foreign policy
Let’s not forget that Lepa Radić was a communist partisan. Communism is bad. Millions of innocents have died in the name of communism.
Smash the Deep State now! 🔨
Those who fight and die in a war are never those who manipulate and start it.
Ain't that about a bitch!👍🏾🤎
Hitler? Mussolini?
@@russellpetts5107 No Russell, it goes much higher than Hitler or Mussolini. The "powers" used narcissists like Hitler and Mussolini to perpetrate their wars in order to enriched themselves, to drive humanity into ever-smaller corrals, to install their early version of One World Government. They tried it with the Council on Foreign Affairs in 1921. When those efforts failed, they learned their lessons and gave it another go with what we have, today: The United Nations. This demonic organization is the front for One World Government. Rockefeller and the Rothschild clans are its true "founders and financiers." They have since enveloped in others of "like mind." You will never see a Rockefeller or Rothschild actually fighting a war. They instigate the world's conflicts for self enrichment, but more importantly, to install their New World Order and One World Government. They will use the United Nations as their launch point, insisting on a World Army (the members of the UN put up their countrymen to serve this Satanic force). They are in the process of stripping sovereignty from every nation, forming "unions" such as the European Union and other like-kind "transnational organizations" in North America, Asia, the Pacific. These "unions" will be brought together under One World Government. All "member countries" will permanently and irreversibly lose their national sovereignty. It's a plan. And those planning it will never fight. They'll have humankind fashion its own prison.
Right ! And those who initiate and start it will never ride ahead like John Wayne. But hide in a shelter waiting for the result - to celebrate or to run away.
I would question how many male snipers would have avoided being shot if they were captured. My guess is approximately zero.
Lepa Radic was not from Soviet Union, she was from Yugoslavia, todays Serbia
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Thanks for bringing us these historical accounts.
So let me get this straight, Allowing women to make their own free choices on whether they want to serve in the armed forces or not is seen as barbaric by the Germans but torturing women like savages is a civilized act. Then they wonder why the Soviet retaliation against the Germans was so brutal, as if Germans showed up at their doorsteps with roses and chocolates. I can only imagine how enraged and how much animosity one would develop after witnessing your women and even children being treated this way. Any soldier caught torturing any human being
(That goes for both sides, and including current militaries of the world) should be tried on the spot and executed. As far as I'm concerned if you enjoy that sort of thing that means you are seriously psychologically disturbed and vile to the core, and should have no business being in armed forces. Wars are horrific enought, so you want people with integrity, morals, and values being in charge to minimize atrocities, not sociopaths who are trying to exploit the situation to victimize people for their own sick indulgence.
Soviet Regime did horrific shit to their own people and others as well. The glorification in this video is barf worthy.
@@nickcarroll5034 Do all fascista just make weak, sad little apologies? Or do some of them have balls big enough to admit their crimes? Just wondering...I only ever see the flaccid weaklings on RUclips.
When Nazis invaded Russia they raped and murdered. You’re a fool
@@levbronstein-red So you won't admit Soviet crimes? Do you have balls big enough for that? Where's the part where I said I wouldn't admit Germany's?
@@nickcarroll5034 Not at all...just wondering why you had to change the subject so quickly in such a whiney limp way? All you right wingers seem to do this. I can't believe you are all weaklings.
Salute to all these brave, beautiful women.
They paid very dearly for the freedom from
Nazi fascists.
The communists were just as bad as the fascists. The women were not free under communism.
@@autodidact537 keep spreading your imperialist fascist propaganda
Lepa Radić was not Soviet/Russian but serbian girl that joined partisans after croatian ustasha's commited genocide in Krajina,Lika and Bosnia.
Did the Germans “humiliate” her and not just torture her before her execution?? 😍😍😍😍😍
@@John77Doe
Sick thing to say.
@@duskosekulic5143 You're not into hot chicks being "humiliated"?? 😍😍😍
@@John77Doe what is it that posses a human being to say shit like this?
just in the idea that what? its funny for people to be replaced when you say something repulsive? no shit, brillant trolling
its pathetic and sad, not edgy or annoying or clever or whatever your intention was
Excellent video......Im ashamed to say I Never knew women had fought in the actual Army against Germans!! I've Never heard this all this Information, Thank You 💯 ✌ 💓.
Such incredibly brave women. And that's an understatement
My utmost respect for these soldiers of the Soviet Union.
You won't be giving them any respect if they conquer your lands .
@@larrytan3822 I am merely showing my respect for a war of long ago. I dont mean it for tension in the world today. Besides, I am Russian by ancestry. To be blunt, I wouldn't be here and surely my Grand parents would be dead if these people did not stand up for themselves
Anyone on the eastern front had a very hard go at that the worst war the world had ever known. That’s for sure. But please understand, while the Soviets struggles were certainly legendary, there was no shortage of toughness and grit the world over with that generation.
They’ve been called the greatest generation and with my rudimentary historical knowledge I understand why, but I disagree. I think there was also no shortage of even harder people during WW1, the American civil war, Napoleonic Europe and on and on. The further you go back, the further from this soft and privileged generation they got. I think a better name for my grandparents generation would be The Last of the Great Generations.
They were tough soldiers having to fight the awful nazis while serving an awful master themselves. Between Nazis and Bolsheviks, there is no good side.
@@dexterwestin3747 Obviously, there IS a good side considering Nazis' plans to genocide the Russian population leaving only 30 million alive as slaves.
The casualties of War, on either side to anybody is a shame, lives lost during warfare is a shame and sad 😢
Fanatical leaders are perfectly willing to sacrifice the lives of others.
Naw, dead nazis are a blessing.
This is why I love and respect the Russian people and most exclusively their women. They are the epitome of fearless bravery, loyalty and pure strength... this accompanied with incredible beauty and femininity. These are great people worthy of my love and respect.
Exactly! I totally agree with you. I wrote my research project/extended essay about women in Russia, and how their role have done a pardoxal chance since the fall of Soviet Union. It was really interesting to read and write about!
As a proud U.S. NAVY veteran I salute those brave women. They were fighting our common enemy. Thank you Madames, your deaths were not in vain. 🇺🇸
Believe it or not but some Russian women returned to hostility by their own families and towns because they WRONGLY believed that they were “Front Line women”. Some were even nurses and pilots too but if they served close or on the Front Line, then this would usually happen. It’s terrible but true.
Like in the US and UK, they were "Celebrated" and used as Propaganda tools, just until the Men returned from war. Then they were expected to return to domesticity.
To be clear was Front Line Women thought to be a euphemism for "prostitute"?
@@arrow1414 Yes, unfortunately.
@@kdfulton3152any source for that absurd?
Well done Brave Russian females in fighting our common Nazi enemies. Thank you ! Plus thank's for the very well-researched upload !
No love for the Nazis in my family. They put my great Aunt in a Concentration Camp
for spying for the Allies. The truth is she was such a gorgeous stunningly beautiful Woman that the Bosh couldn't keep their mouths shut around her. Always bragging about what they had done and most importantly were about to do.
The Americans liberated Dachau in the very nick of time. She lived to a ripe old age of 97. God bless this brave Woman.
Thank you for sharing.
It's amazing how wars are started usually by one man and thousands or millions die as a result
That terrible war started when a young man Bosnian Serbian, in his 20s, named Gavrilo Princip (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip) decided to assassinate the prince of the Habsburg family (Emperators of Austria or something similar), so that Bosnia instead of being part of the Austrian Hungarian Empire it became part of Serbia. The Austrians demanded that Serbia hand over the murderer of the prince, Serbia refused, Austria declared war on Serbia, Russia then declared war on Austria and it was already an avalanche effect. In Serbia a large number of monumentthey are dedicated to Gavrilo Princip ("in gratitude for what he did") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand
@@mariepi and then Germany invaded France through Belgium. This bothers me MORE about Germany than the Nazi's. When it comes to the Nazi's, I can see that they were just a reaction to Boshevism, however foul they ended up becoming. The Bolshis set themselves up so that only the REAL CRAZIES could take them out --> enter the nazi's. What the HELL was up with invading Belgium and France in 1914 though? On some pretense that France was allied with Russia who was defending the slavs in Serbia, etc. etc. The buildup and breakout of WWI is one of the absolute just most crazy things in world history. It should have just been another local Balkan war (they had just finished another one). Instead, it turned into all that calamity. But the German invasion of Belgium in 1914, and the cruelty with which it was carried out, is hard for me to get my head around. I can at least understand where the nazi's CAME from, but I can't understand the Belgium thing at all.
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
I didn't, so I did the opposite.
Also remenber what these women went throught before the war and after ... some are still living in poverty especially after USSR collapse.
ya cuz churchill and fdr fucked them over after the war everyone seams to forget that part
@@fkujakedmyname no , stalin and other russians leaders f...ed them over like millions of others
Hey ya...
Stalin murdered many, many, many more Russian people than hitler!
They both were psychopaths!
The Russian government Stalin to Putin are evil.
When you're fighting for survival; nothing else matters. Besides that, they KICKED their butt out.
These women were beautiful, spirited, and just trying to defend their country. I hope they are all in a good place.
Everyone was “defending “ their country.
"just defending their country" while it invaded the Baltic States and Poland and mass deported civilians to gulags. Just defending their country.
IMO, they were a lot of things, but let's not beat around the bush, most of them looked functional like farm tractors and not much more.
@@Waldemarvonanhalt Salty much?
@@nickcarroll5034 I don't see the issue here apart from the whole GULAG thing. I wouldn't mind if we invaded those worthless pieces of shit a few more times . It was *fun* 👌
The Nazis thought that having women in the Red Army and the Partizans was a sadistic Bolshevism practice.
What they did to these women who were immensely brave that was sadistic an horrendous!
These women are heroes!
Only thing - Lepa Radič was with the Yugoslavian Partizans.
But thank you for showing these brave women xxx 🙏
You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only option.
Thank you for sharing this.
More I learn about history more I appreciate my country America.
I would have died gladly for those extraordinary women who of Russia.
Country not Communism.
😪💋❤
My Grandfather served on the German side in WW2. After the war, and after most, not all, prisoners had been vetted, cleared and were able to emigrate, he went to Scotland and married my Grandmother, an Edinburgh local, and took her surname in favour of his German name. A while after settling down, he was questioned by UK authorities if he had witnessed incidences of German atrocity against Russian civilians or military. I take it he did not, and was not under suspicion anyway. He was no Nazi, but was a professional officer of the artillery.
My dad was in Germany with the British army after the war he had a great love for the German people he always said that normal German people weren’t nazis
I have no doubt he lied.
@@shellc6743 I'll go even further. The commenter is likely a self hating Jew, like most of this type I have seen on RUclips.
Impressive. Admirable. Reminds me of the women in my work, their strength and determination.
And what is your work?
@@andrewregan5292 Hopefully something to do with stopping whiney fascist trolls on the internet!
@Dok Skwyr it seems you're afraid to finish your smart text with the proper words so that "... and determination *under the enemy fire attacking us* " would be great.
Why the reverse sexist statements?
5:10 she is Yugoslav partisan, not ussr, from Bosnia
Great pictures of these women who fought. Do one on The Night Witches.
I've never seen Katyusha Rocket launchers used in the anti-aircraft role before. Maybe the editing got a bit mixed up ?
He's actually right ...The Devils Organ , multi rocket launcher, was considered against the Geneva Convention for use on ground forces so it was technically labeled as a low flying barrage antiaircraft weapon... to get around this .
It i's not that unusual to see this ..
The Browning M2 is technically an "anti-vehicle " weapon and not supposed to be used on ground troops technically.
I'll never forget the sacrifices that were made so we could have freedom today. God bless
Don't be so sure u will always have freedom
hahaha while the Iron Curtain put the boot on many countries and enslaved them.
@@nickcarroll5034 There was no slavery at all under communism.
Undeniably courageous, what a pity they were led by a monster who not only started WW2 in alliance with the Nazis by committing the Polish attrocity, buy who was responsible for the deaths of more Russians than Hitler.
holy fuck you can only believe this if you are a literal holocaust denialist
god western propganda is working overtime to rehabilitate and make excuses for the literal fuckign nazis
They annexed the Baltic countries and deported people in mass to Siberia aside from murdering others there. This Soviet apologist Chris S never even will address any of it. He should crawl back from the rock he slithered out from.
@@nickcarroll5034 the nazi apologist Nick thinks anyone is interested in his deranged holocaust denial
and i don't care that the soviets annexed the baltics
they were better off under them than the jew hating nazis who run them this very day and, like you praise nazi collaborators and the perpetrators of the holocaust
Best comment👍👍👍
Another great submission. The History Channel needs to hire you.
if you like soviet propaganda
Partisans are irregular fighters who do not carry their weapons in public and do not identify themselves as combatants. These individuals do not enjoy the same privileges as members of a country's regular armed forces. If captured, they are usually treated as criminals.
That gives you no excuse to execute in cold blood and without a fair trial all the partisans you capture:
"The Geneva Conventions apply in wars between two or more sovereign states. Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention states that the status of detainees whose combatant status is in doubt should be determined by a "competent tribunal". Until such time, they must be treated as prisoners of war.[4] After a "competent tribunal" has determined that an individual is not a lawful combatant, the "detaining power" may choose to accord the individual the rights and privileges of a prisoner of war as described in the Third Geneva Convention, but is not required to do so.An individual who is not a lawful combatant, who is not a national of a neutral state, and who is not a national of a co-belligerent state, retains rights and privileges under the Fourth Geneva Convention and must be "treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial".[5]"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_combatant
Amazing video, as always 💙
Another example to illustrate the view that WWII never ended (or WWI for that matter).
Ww2 was a continuation of ww1
World war 2 was actually a continuation of World War 1,the concessions the victors place on Germany were not to be accepted but rather opened the door per a personality such as that of Hitler!
One of the mentioned heroes, Radic? I believe she was Jugoslavian. Of course, there was a roughly similiar story. Especielly the Tito groups did had quite a few female soldiers. Historically, the Serbian army during WW1 had at least several renown and decorated female field soldiers.
Radić was a communist. Good riddance.
Maybe France would have held if it had Soviet women.
How many French soldiers does it take to defend Paris?
No one knows, it’s never been done.
AGREED
Maybe if they hadn't welcomed the Nazis, things would have been different.
please be respectfull to france
french communist heroin resistance francoise bloch serazin was guillotined by nazis after torture at 28 in hamburg 1943 ;also olga bancic ; simonne sclhloss solange vigneron emilienne mopty francine fromond suzanne masson simonne cointe all young french communist women beheaded after torture ; may be a video on the brave francoise bloch serazin; she deserve it;she killed many nazis; she was engineer and the artificer of the parisian resistance in 1940/1942
Many brave women who fought for their country. I wish that the USA and Russia could have become friends rather than adversaries after the war. We fought on the same side back then. I just wish that our countries got along better today.
Even living closer to Alaska than to the WWII the entire Yakut population dropped by nearly 25% during the war, because without men (all went to the war) many women, children and enderly died from hunger, cold and diseases in Yakutia, the coldest region of the world. Even they had cattle and horses, but authorities said it was for the war, for soldiers, but in reality due to lack of roads and infrastructure most of the food was eaten by the authorities, but not the people.
IRL, the number of frontline combatants who were women are not that high. If you look at any photo of Red Army troops on the march, you'll notice the women typically aren't carrying any sort of weapon, load-bearing equipment or hardware related to fighting.
There were 750,000 women and 36 million men, who served in the Soviet military during WW2. That means that 2.5% of the Soviet military were females. 99.5% of these females served as medical personnel, clerks, and in logistics units. They were praised by the communist propaganda machine, which promoted radical feminism. A little known fact, however, is that many Russian military men despised them. Some of my relatives fought against, and were killed by the German Nazis. A few survived and told me war stories that were not very laudatory about "Stalin's Amazons." It was not uncommon for ordinary Russian women (who did not serve in the military) to express openly their contempt for the communist amazons after the war, calling them "field whores" or "lesbians." Almost all of the officers at or above the rank of major had at their disposal one or more (even veritable harems) of Stalin's amazons.
Yes, Russia and the other republics were still culturally backwards and no ideology was going to just fix that within a generation or two.
hey criminal please stop your fascist propaganda..we have defeated you earlier and will defeat your toxic ideology in future.so chill rest in peace.
@@bprogressive Yeah because communism under the dirty barbarians of the Soviet Union is so much better. Just ask all the females they raped and killed (many of which were in their own fucking territory) and who can forget massacring civilians and enemies soldiers.
And that’s the enemies wait till you see what they do to their own civilians during “peace time”.
@@bprogressive My father fought against THE FASCISTS + THE NAZIS. Several of my relatives were killed by them. The modern "progressives" are actually a COMMUNIST + NAZI hybrid. BTW, I don't want to discuss the contemporary Satanist FEMI--NAZIS, because I am afraid that I might throw up......
@@bprogressive You are high on.....BS.
All angels heros .. So horrible.
Now I understand why Russians are so very proud of they're people. It's impossible to watch this film without respect.
This video narration is almost word for word the same as Dr Mark Felton's video on this same subject that was published around two months ago.
I chuckle at the though of treating russian female soilder prisoners badly. The average male soldier died of starvation when captured.... how much worse can it get???
Do you dislike women or something,. yes they treated all people badly but due to their masculine egos they really hated the sniper women. Rape is torture to and many were raped. It is a favourite to degrade women. The stabbings and mutilations tell us how angry the were at the Soviet women.. Delia Morris
Thank you for your pictures and your words.
These that brutalized such women aren't soldiers or men they're cowards among the lowest ilk
0:23, Scarlett Johansson! I didn't know that you played a Soviet Sniper back in WW2!
Wow they even had them as Machine gunners and drove tanks …..Russian woman badass central.It disgusts me what they did to these women when I hear “humiliate her” just appalling.Disturbing what people due in war
This history is fascinating. To thing about so much misery inside the way people think is awful. In my world no one taught about war and suffering. I wish I had learned more in school or by my parents. Sad and scarey that so many lives were affected. God help us.
Heldenfrauen ❤️
Gott behüte sie im Himmel.
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Thanks for sharing this excellent video which provides information about Russia and their armed forces which not many people know about. Those brave women in particular are an example to us all of bravery and courage in the face of terrible adversity.
Thank you for making this video. Women played a huge part in the allies victory over the evil Germans.
They knew what the consequents were before joining up. I'm not surprised at the terrible end for some of these women snipers. It was total war.
what's unclear to me, is because the war on the eastern wasnt between two signatories of the geneva convention..is any of this abnormal for this conflict?
were the germans treating female combatants as they treated every combatant and as the soviets treated axis combatants?
I genuinely dont know, but I should have known after 10 minutes of this.
Agree its not very clear in this video. But yes, it is abnormal as generally (male) soldiers would be taken as prisoners of war, while any female soldier was executed.
@@sofiakauko9926 I looked around a little just to acid test some of what you said, and I was able to find pictures of soviet women POWs, as well as some articles that stated the axis executed all "partisans", men and women.
Seems to be some consensus with the other comments that many of the women being discussed in the video are "partisans".
Its definitely not black and white, there may be gender disparities, I dont have info to prove or disprove that, but its definitely more than a few arbitrary executions of men and fewer than all woman.
The Soviets were attacked by millions of German soldiers, if the Soviets used millions too, what was wrong? It's not a dictatorial regime, but a defense, Most Soviet people joined the red army because of revenge because their families were killed by German soldiers, not because of government coercion
Very true. Stalin knew this too that is why he emphasized Russian nationalism rather than Soviet doctrine in order to convince them to fight.
5:30. The bold look of an unbroken girl. We remember and proud!
The Soviets had it correct: if women want to be seen as equal then they have to risk their lives in wars just like the men. Contrast this with Britain. The women who wanted the vote had little intention of fighting in wars. In fact a number of them saw men who refused to fight in WW1 as cowards while not demanding they themselves be allowed to join up. The draft in the US is going to include women for the first time, which a lot of women are not happy about
God bless all these brave women ❤️🙏🙏
it would be interesting to hear the stories of the Kosacks the British army sourrounded to the red army after war or the violation order that was given by the Russian army to its soldiers...
So let me get this straight, Soviets wanted women to have independence and make their own choices with their lives, they were not required to fight and Germans wanted their women washing dishes, cleaning and cooking at home.
Research how the women(like female defense workers in the US) were treated AFTER their usefulness was at an end. Yeah, right back to domesticity. They were "free and independent" as long as men weren't available.
Germans wanted their women to do babies , and therefore soldiers, so do not fight but make new fighters for the future, just like Italian fascists
@@lemsolaris67 The Italian fascists had female soldiers, even a general, and the Nazis didn't enforce gender roles strictly, they had female labourers, scientists, soldiers (including infantry towards the end of the war) and even a high ranking member of the Nazi party who was a founding member and SS leader, overall as bad as the Nazis were, the status of women's rights compared to men in Nazi Germany wasn't too bad by 1940s standards, Hitler was a socialist as were other members of his party, and even though he was a racist he still had a bit of the egalitarian side of Germany's socialist culture left in him which he applied to women and poor people, people these days just don't like talking about it because Nazis prove that being a socialist doesn't necessarily make you a better person than a capitalist.
Trying to find your sources list?
War is sadistic and no honor in it. RIP tortured souls.
Informative video. Thanks
I imagine that a great many German soldiers captured met similar fates. A German POW had very small chance of surviving and going home.
They deserved nothing less!!
The British treated German pows very fairly and large number decided to remain in UK after the war.
good
@@jasoneldridge4738 Yes, but I was talking about USSR. German POWs in U.S. were well treated too.
Still a much higher chance than a Soviet POW did in German captivity
These are the kind of women you admire brave and heroes for there Nation 👍🏻👍🏻 they shell never be forgotten ..
These women were true heroes!
Russia. Where men were men, and so were the women!
"In Russia we have saying: woman is like a truck. (Pause) That's all." --Yakov Smirnoff