The Night Witches - As Bruxas da Noite

[Vatras124]

ahahah

the first placard says "WE WILL OVERCOME A DROUGHT".

ps

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[187ichiban]

They were called, "The Black Witches of The Sky" in German, of course. Their skill and bravery was phoenominal but they were forced to fly obsolete bombers (some with double wings) which were painted black because they had no oxygen and they were forced to fly very low. As such they were easy targets for our search lights and ack ack and were shot down like sitting ducks!

[77Merav]

1942, 800,000 Russian women served in the frontier and fought bravely against the Nazis invasion :) .

there is a new book :"Ivan's war"- Catherine Merridale about the Red Army I939- 1945..very recommended. after a read it, I fell in love in the Russian spirit and courage!

[ChristinaNL89]

I love the song you used!!! Can you tell me its name? I know the motive but I can't make out any words so I could look it up in Google.

[ArtistNR]

Chris - Its Oh fields, My fields. Thats how its named in my collection.

[hunbalam]

Polyushka polye- O fiel my field by the red army choir

[fuhmeregan]

Yay for Russia and her women pilots!!!!! The story of the Nightwitches is fantastic, thanks for posting! Hugs from a Canadian "Russian Enthusiast". ********And you were RIGHT for spanking Georgia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[lsnows]

Muito bem feito este video. Muito obrigado.

Ochin' kharoshiy video.  Ochen' spasibo.

[ja7738]

I used to admire Soviet women. Their strength, bravery, intelligence, no make-up. It is sad to see a Russian woman now. They can change so many things in their country, if they put morality first.

[dergrossen]

LVG31 Thank you for sending this video to me.

This should be widely made available to people all around the world. So many fine people were lost (the nazi beheaded my grandfather in Vienna in 1945) to the fascists. My mother sabotaged an ammunitions factory in Berlin in 1939..she survived the war. Without the women, at the frontline and back in the factories, the fascist would have won the war. Best Greetings to all who fight the fascist.

[Swordman85]

Are you a woman, comrade? (since that youtube shows no gender)

[dergrossen]

I am a man, was born in the UK in 1954. My father was a British soldier. I see many people around me that do not realise they are fascist, these days could easily come again.

[dergrossen]

The nazi beheaded my great uncle, not my grandfather as stated above. On the same day another 15 souls were beheaded. The nazi knew the Russian soldiers were about to free Vienna...yet they murdered. Always in any society there are a group of murderers and thugs who await political sanction....the evil in humanity is always there.

[DrCruel]

The story goes, that Stalin wanted to add to Russian manpower reserves - and so he ordered women and children to be used in battle.

His generals were silent, until one spoke up, saying that women and children were too weak to fight.

Stalin thought for a minute. "If they are too weak to be good soldiers, then they are poor soldiers. So send them into battle first, to absorb bullets, and save our men for counterattacks."

In battle, the surviving women became very good soldiers indeed.

[Corvusdotensis]

That´s just one of the thousands of religious myths on Stalin´s time which can´t be matched with rational thought. The USSR was the first state to abolish the sexism and women did everything that men did.

That´s why today Russian women are much better than American women, they are free, while American women are just shown as objects and prostitutes for their husbands.

[Swordman85]

That´s one of the greatest idiocy(lacking of any proofs, for sure) that I ever readed!

[DrCruel]

@Swordman85 It does explain why these women were given woefully obsolete Po-2 biplanes to fly, while male pilots were given much more advanced aircraft. And of course, we do know that Soviet children were used as bomb carriers for knocking out tanks.

Indeed - from what I've studied of the war, both the Russian and German socialist leadership used their people with the same callous ruthlessness. Perhaps why Stalin's famous joke - "It takes a very brave man to be a coward in the Red Army".

[deabajo]

@Swordman85 true... I always wonder when somebody writes something so stupid...

[ishtopor]

@DrCruel they were heroes, they were patriots and all they were volunteers. do not try to understand, people like you have no chances

[DrCruel]

@ishtopor Everyone was a volunteer in the Soviet Army. Even the bullet catchers of the penal battalions. Stalin said so, thus it must be true.

I have great respect for the Russian people. I'm fond of the Ukranians too, whom the Bolshevik treated as the Nazis treated the Jews. The Ukranian partisans that fought against both the Nazi and Bolshevik invaders were perhaps the bravest of all - and paid for their courage with their lives, as very few survived.

Don't tell me what to "understand".

[bathrobetom]

For a good account of the Night Witches, you may wish to read the book "Last

Citadel" by David L. Robbins by Bantam Dell, ISBN Number 0-553-58312-3. They were true heroes of WWII. Thank you for the video.

[LVG31]

Dear Swordman this is a great video, so few young people even in Russia know about Night Witches. Such brave girls in those wood and canvas planes PO-2! Thank you.

[Swordman85]

The Russian youngsters must know what is the country where they were born, who are their heroes and what are their values. Today in Russia they present fake heroes to plp, "James Bond", "Spiderman" and a decayed culture which poisons their brains.

The Soviet Union is over, but loyalty continues. I never got a cent for that, but I got something better, values!

[Swordman85]

Good times.. When plp used to have something good at their minds, instead of girls thinking about what hair collor to change.

[arkadikl]

Sorry, I just meant that the poster itself has nothing to do with the war. But this is not a problem. It is still a nice image. Of course, they present Stalin battling the natural disaster the same way he was conducting military operation. I did not mean to amke any critical comment, just wanted to make a small precision. Thank you again for the video.

[arkadikl]

A very nice collection of historical images although the very fist "Stalin" conquering drought is a little out of place.

[Swordman85]

He was the country´s military leader

[allanandreassa]

A União Soviética, quando Lênin e Stálin secretários-gerais do PCUS, deteve inúmeras e grandiosas vitórias populares que o imperialismo estadunidense nunca conseguirá. Em primeiro lugar, nunca conseguiu unir o povo e encorajá-lo a defendê-lo. Por isso, a URSS foi a grande vitoriosa na 2ª Guerra Mundial.

[Swordman85]

I hope that this video help Russians to remember a little their history, a history of heroes who defeated unjustice, different from most current Russians, drunk in hatress and fascist ideals.