The Russian Trench Raiders of Death (WW1) (True Story)

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  @dtaylor10chuckufarle · 4 months ago

  Having learned their lesson, the Soviets did exactly the same thing in WW2.

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  @Gretchen-Rose · 4 months ago

  So much history lies beneath our feet on the eastern front of the world wars.  When I was a kid in Poland my brother and I would use metal detectors to locate war relics like guns and helmets and mess kits.  We even found a few skeletons with German helmets on them.

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• DT

  @dtaylor10chuckufarle · 4 months ago

  Millions of men are still under that soil.

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• SA

  @SandgreenYNWA · 3 months ago

  Stormofsteel always quality content, THANK YOU ❤

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• KY

  @Kylemathews1 · 3 months ago

  Sick vid 👍

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• JO

  @josephschrom4571 · 3 months ago

  Love the work, for the algorithm

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  @vorynrosethorn903 · 12 days ago

  The curved dagger you show is a reproductive of the Bebut 1907 model, they were issued on mass to artillery, scout formations and Siberian and Caucasian troops.<br>They were very common as they were mass produced to state order and given to a lot of regular Russian forces.<br><br>The kindjal was worn by Cossacks in Caucasian dress (so the Kuban and Terek hosts usually) and in the native Caucasian cavalry. Both groups were usually armed even outside of war, and the Cossacks were explicitly ordered to equip themselves (a source of major economic crisis among them in the decades leading up to WW1 as the equipment list greatly expanded and also became regulated to specific blueprints, non-standard equipment became prevalent from the moment restrictions relaxed with the start of war), so they usually owned a dagger and sword (a shashka usually, usually within the general scope of several regulation patterns produced or specified by the government, the TKV 1894, KKV 1904, the 1881 (the most widespread as it was regulation for Don and other non-caucasian Cossacks) and the 1913 (brought in after feedback from the boxer rebellion and Russo-Japanese war, as regulation for Caucasian Cossack officers and likely intended in the long run to standardise all regulation swords as it had a elements of both the Caucasian and non-Caucasian swords, though it should be noted it was a derivation of Caucasian style swords getting a weighted pommel put on by troops in those conflicts against regulation in order to adjust the balance (which was top heavy due to the lack of a counter-balance traditionally, as Shashkas started off as very light (450 grams) but full sized self-defence swords in the clan warfare and blood vendettas of the Caucasus, the Russian models were double the weight (850 grams or so, depending on model), so fairly normal weight for a sword, though that was a norm rather than a rule for the originals), then WW1 happened)) personally, and some were heirlooms or extravagant pieces of artistic expression, silver hilts were relatively common as the Caucasus mined silver and had excellent silver craftsmen, embroidered scabbards were also a thing. <br><br>Rukalibr makes accurate reproductions. I recommend using them to source pictures as the Indian reproductions are all fairly distant in resemblance.<br>Though the originals often featured intricate decorations and were not exactly to specification. <br><br><br><br>British sources on the Russian Empire are highly suspect, about equivalent to Elizabethan sources on the Spanish. <br>There was an overriding whig narrative as to Russia, and the British were aligned with internal liberal elites who wished to bring such a reform program. But the Whig vision was frankly delusional, failing to account for Russian social and structures and hierarchies, the actual historical development of Britain and the actual nature of Britain at the time.<br>They criticised Russia for inefficient overcentralisation of land when English land was far more centralised, and in both cases only the big landowners produced significant surpluses. <br>They sought to destroy the social infrastructure of the rural population, which formed the security of both Russian and English farmers (NathanGoldwag has an interesting article call the Moral Economy of the Shire, on Tolkens depiction of the English version of this, the structures of mutual reliance that were vital to the survival of most of the population prior to mass bureaucracy and welfare states).<br>They were also fickle, Russian whigs were also Russian socialists, Russian pan-slavists, Russian weird eccentrics and whatever else was popular in the high society of St Petersburg and wannabes in a few other cities across the Empire. The Russian gentry sent them mad as they determinedly ignored all reform plans, crackpot ideas and requests for donations. Usually through not even knowing they existed as they didn&apos;t pay subscriptions to the bulletins where all of this was outlined. <br><br>For uniforms of the period pygmywars covers the civil war in English and schusters makes reproductions to regulation (or non-regulation which was so pervasive that it made no difference).<br><br>You specifically might be interested &apos;A Memoir History of the Russian Civil War&apos; by Ignatius Hannula, as he is systematically translating Russian primary accounts into English. There is also Cossacks, Cossacks: Russian Cavalry Attacks on the First World War by Alexsey Oleinikov, which only has limited print runs so they expect you to wait forever to get a copy.

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  @R.D.F.4315 · 2 weeks ago

  For the algorithm.

• SG

  @SgtRocko · 4 months ago

  There&apos;s a fascinating 2015 Russian film called &quot;Battalion&quot; that&apos;s WELL worth a watch if you want some of the history of the Women&apos;s Battalion Of Death. Marija Aronowa gives an excellent portrayal. It&apos;s available on YT for freee.

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• JE

  @Jean-LucMartin-y1y · 4 months ago

  Do a video about the Russians in the Russian Japanese war please

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• AN

  @anon2034 · 2 months ago (edited)

  What was the source of those? I want to read them first hand.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPDSTfr4W1s&amp;t=447">7:27</a> Razveschiki (разведчики) means recces (reconnaissance guys). Not trench raiders.<br>This video seems to be a translation of the wikipedia article: Уда́рные ча́сти Ру́сской а́рмии.

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• JO

  @joshharay5912 · 3 months ago

  How did they get so close to one another trench wise without just complete bloodbath ? Im not sure how to ask this like how was it possible for them to do it did they start from far away and dig until they pretty much couldnt??

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