all right seal fella back or if you're new here oh miss dippy
um right we have sabaton yes i love this band today and this link was recommended by alexi
um i'm going to use the translator to speak it because it it's it's pronounced it properly in
english which is a mess alexa complete i don't think that's right in russian alexi
right so we get it right um and night witches is what it's called i don't know much about it but it
sent me the link asked me if i'd do it of course it will it's sabaton and they're an
awesome awesome band and what they're doing about things that happen in the war is things that
it you know sometimes you don't know about i mean like what the one where which was called
no bullets that was fantastic story to that and i think there's a story to this as well
so almost everybody's it is seven minutes long get your coffee sit down get yourself comfy
and enjoy the wonderful world of sabaton that's what i'm going to say because they're awesome and
they're great and what i'm going to do as well oh yeah i always put well i don't know what it
translates like but i always put subtitles in i always do them in russian and spanish but if
anybody has any requests i will put the others in as well just let me know and i'll do it it's the
auto translate it's it's not me it's um it's so if you know some of the things i may never say but
it could you know say it's worse with japanese i think anything else but uh but anyway there we go
moonlight
trying to think of the song about moon that's blue moon today yeah now
i can't think of a rock one anyway let's get these on
anyway tick-tock let's rock
the germans are resting behind the lines of the eastern front their tents in neat rows
all is in order in the quiet and still of the night it's cold and the winter snow crunches
under the jack boot of a guard looking up into the sky the snow starts to drift down
it's peaceful here was that a noise from the sky no it's just the wind suddenly piercing the still
of the night there's an otherworldly scream and a whoosh as a dark form speeds by and was that a
woman's laughter in the distance there are no engine sounds and the suddenly fearful german
soldier loses his footing and whispers under his breath de noctex the world is all at once a
bloom of fire and ash and two more dark forms pass without a sound hearing the whooping and
celebration of these supernatural creatures the guard shakes himself from his fear and
the night which is
in the sky above three planes of the soon to be famous 588th night bomber regiment
their engines now running turn east for home time to re-arm and refuel for another mission
coming into land they're greeted by their commissar yevdokyareshkevich the young girls
have formed the pilots and navigators are between the ages of 17 and 26. they are desperate to take
the fight to the germans and have traveled from all over russia to join the all-women regiments
the 588th is where the least skilled of all the women are placed but that didn't stop them from
carving their name in history in the early days they were largely ridiculed by the soviet men
given men's uniforms that were too big and shoes all of the same size the women did the best they
could with the clothes making them fit with belts or fitting the large men's shoes with stuffing
the equipment they were given was woefully out of date the polykarpov po2 was a two-man trainer
underpowered and made of cloth and wood these old string bags were nicknamed
crop dusters or even worse sewing machines due to the noise their tiny engines made but the women
of the 588 ignored the taunts and despite the odds turned the plane's shortcomings to their advantage
the planes at maximum speeds were far below the store speeds of any of the german fighters
giving them a tight turning circle they were almost impossible to hit they were susceptible
to small arms fire and anti-aircraft guns so their strategy was to attack and freeze
with a navigator in each plane at her signal the pilot would cut the engines and swoop in slowly
silently dropping their bombs dealing death from above unexpected undetected stealth perfected
if necessary the other two would draw fire from the fighters or from the ground they
slept during the day and rose at dusk to take their vengeance on the invaders
this unnatural bravery and their stealth tactics earned them their title the night witches
the german ace johannes steinhoff said we simply couldn't grasp that the soviet airman
that caused us the greatest trouble were in fact women these women feared nothing
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the grass
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is as they appear on the horizon the wind will whisper when the height which has come
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32 women both pilots and navigators never came home the 588th became highly decorated
and respected flying more than 23 000 sorties dropping over 3 000 tons of bombs
23 night witches were awarded the hero of the soviet union although they were disbanded just
six months after the war and not allowed to fly in the victory parade given their planes were
so slow from 1956 after she retired from active service their commissary of tokyo took it upon
herself to find the sight of every single one of her girls that was downed to mark the place
and to pay her respects to each one of the incredibly brave knight witches
awesome absolutely i didn't know i did not know that they did that
that's something i didn't know about the war i know about obviously from um
my side of things it's like from the uk
but in europe there's things that happened that we didn't even know about nobody
mentioned no one had mentioned that i've never read that anywhere i've seen it anywhere that's
awesome absolutely awesome what they did and so clever as well when you think about it that they
you know cut the engines come in glided in dropped the bombs did the job
night witches yeah amazing absolutely amazing of course obviously sabaton's
done a fantastic job again and the music and everything i got totally engrossed in
that that was getting to me that was because so you know again it's it's true it's a true story
they only tell true stories and that's true and uh you know well done to them for doing that that was
a you know that's a great thing to do but there you go and um say something i didn't know about
and i've known a fair bit about you know having spoken to people and everything and
being born in 1953 um you know it it's one of them it's one of them things isn't it you you
you you only seem to know about your own stuff or what you was taught at school at the time
i didn't know about that no awesome an awesome video absolutely awesome video so well put
together so well put together and obviously got the subtitles on everything anyway so
but yeah absolutely fantastic job there guys you did that absolutely fantastic you really did
fantastic job of that and thank you um i can't remember your name now um
yeah where is it what we're doing with it what we're doing with it why don't we yeah thank you
alexi for the link i'll do it like that so i get your name right thank you so much for the
link that was absolutely awesome that really was awesome wow wow wow wow wow
and what a great band sabotage sabota wow great anyway it's enough for me going on that
was awesome as much as i can say about it it's um when you realize what had gone off you know
and how obviously obviously with them ladies they helped change
the uh the war in russia they they were there they're almost like that's what they got decorated
but anyway thank you thank you thank you thank you everybody for all your comments and and um
support and everything else thank you so so so so much and now it's time for this old record
to sold 78 if you like please please please stay safe and this old fella will be back bye for now