So who was making the sandwiches while this foolishness was going on?
this piece is trying to say they unfairly or unjustly ignored the women, but then refutes itself by saying communism does that to everyone it uses up and discards.
they were actually treated equally, communism does this to everyone. nothing to complain about. there are plenty more groups of soviet men discarded that no one has ever heard about, that have never gotten one inch of press.
In the Flying Heritage Collection (Paine Field Everett WA), that was founded by Paul G Allen, there is a fully restored “Nightwitch” era Polikarpov U-2/Po-2
http://flyingheritage.org/Explore/The-Collection/Russia/Polikarpov-U-2-Po-2.aspx
Brave Ladies.
Both Hitler and Stalin were monsters but Hitler was worse.
He wanted to exterminate the Russian people so they had no choice but to fight with everything they had.
That said, Stalin was a bast*d who probably murdered more people than Hitler.
Hope they enjoy hell together.
In spite of all we did in Wwii the Russians did considerably more of the the heavy lifting.
Sabaton did a song “Night Witches”.
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they became crucial to the Soviets winning their portion of the war against Germany.
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Good Grief man, do you have any idea what the Russians did? They were the largest part of the war - and would have overrun Germany without the allied ground forces or D-Day. Did you ever read about the Battle of Kursk where hundreds of thousands of Russians died in that single battle? 26,400,000 Russian died in combat with the Germans. Their part - gees!
There was a wonderful TV series about those heroines...
In part, it started because women supposedly have better night vision than men...
A Russian woman was the Soviets top sniper...
150,000 Russian women & children (working 8-hrs per day, 7-days per week) dug the trenches/tank traps/pill boxes around Leningrad...
A couple of years ago I binged on Russian films. One of which was about these pilots (title might have been “Night Witches” or something close).
Another great Russian film is the remake of “The Dawns of Ours are Quite”, even better than the 1943 original version
These I think were Star Media productions, on YouTube (don’t know if they’re still up). Both from the early 2000s.
Hitler and Stalin were buddies and attacked Poland together. While the NAZIS were busy hunting down Jews on their side, the Communists murdered all of Poland’s officers and civilian leaders. Why the hell we became allies with the Soviets is a historical sledgehammer to the skull of reason…
That was very interesting. Thanks for posting that video.
“because they were too small to show up by either radar, or infrared locators used by German anti-aircraft.”
First I’ve heard of infrared being used in WWII. I’m skeptical.
For anyone who enjoys war movies, I recommend the 1985 Soviet film “Come And See”.
It’s a war film, but it is more disturbing and frightening than any horror film.
It’s based on the real experiences of the screenwriter, Ales Adamovich, during his time fighting with the Partisans in what is now Belarus.
This film is not for the faint hearted and contains extremely disturbing scenes. What the SS Dirlewanger Brigade did to the Belarusians was just as horrific as what their fellow Nazis did to the Jews.
Many Westerners don’t realize that Hitler hated the Slavs just as much as they hated the Jews. The Nazis planned on exterminating the Slavs. It’s a crime that the Slav Holocaust is ignored in schools.
Six Hundred and Twenty Eight Belarusian villages were burned, along with the villagers. One in five Belarusians were killed during the war. That’s atrocious.
Actually, they go hand-in-hand. Socialism is an economic system, the dreadful alternative to capitalism, while communism is a political system, the dreadful alternative to a constitutional republic, or democratic state.
A communist political system inevitably fosters a socialist economy.
ideologies that are so much alike that the only difference is who gets to have their name on the title of the property or business owned.