The Night Witches was a name given to the World War II pilots of the Soviet Union's all-woman 588th Night Bomber Regiment. They flew multiple missions every night to bomb German units on the Eastern Front, in tiny obsolete planes that flew low and almost silently. The pilots were young (as young as 17), fearless, and patriotic, like the kamikazes Japan deployed in the Pacific. The difference is that the Night Witches often survived their dangerous raids, while understanding that the odds against them were serious.
Their story, as brought to us by Weird History, begins as if the Soviet Union only joined the war in 1941. The part they left out was that the USSR had a pact with Germany to divide the nations of Eastern Europe between them, and the Soviets invaded some of them themselves. Once Germany double-crossed them, the Soviets joined the Allies, and only afterward did women aviators lobby to serve.
The funniest part of this video is the machine-generated captions. The algorithm has no idea what to do with Russian names, and cannot cope at all with the airplanes called Po-2s.
Monday, June 29, 2026
The Soviet Night Witches
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Was it poo twos ?
It must have been poo twos.
All together, comrades, sing it ... POO TWOS !
Italy was on the Axis side for a while.
My limited schooling and feeble memory banks disallow me saying for sure why Italy swapped sides in the latter half of World War II.
But I do remember my uncles died at the bullets from German planes, more like they drowned in the English Channel, but however, my dad would not talk to German people ever ... and his loss stopped me ever buying a German car.
Luckily for me, none of my family was ever hurt by an Italian soldier or bullet, as I quite like Italian cars.
Notice a lot of you Americans quickly forgot the atrocities of war in the Pacific Basin and you all bought Japanese cars when the fuel costs went up and it also became obvious they were better constructed than true blue stars and stripes American cars.
Bit like leaving your partner of years and shared children because the floozy across the stream with the dark eyes gave you a wink you promised you more of what you want and for a long time for five dollars ... bet you all look back now and wish you'd treated your wife/husband/American cars better than what you did, hey ?
You only go out with Allies, them from the same tribe, the same side ... what would have happened ... no, what WILL happen when the off world aliens come down to invade ... will you all become sycophantic to them ?
Like a Trump minion ?
While they line you up in rows ready for harvesting ?
Like Trump minions ?
Rows and rows of stupid people with red caps on, one by one being hauled up into the shredder.
Forget 'Citizen Vigilante' ... 'Alien Farming of Red Caps' is a movie I'd like to see.
Adds lol for balance.
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