The Russian Women's Battalion of Death (1917) - Russian Women on the Eastern Front of World War One

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Maria Bochkareva was the instigator of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death. Part of the Imperial Russian Army this battalion fought along side the Russian men against the Central Powers on the Eastern Front of the First World War. They did take part in the Kerensky Offensive. After the October Revolution the battalion was disbanded. Bochkareva made it to the United States and later returned to join the White Armies led by Admiral Alexander Kolchak.
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@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Learn about RUSSIA during the GREAT WAR: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3iE4NSiZtIQ.html

@thomasgonzalez7133 3 года назад

Stefan, another great episode. I really enjoy your set backgrounds. Neat German WW1 pickelhaube with cloth cover for this specific episode. I believe the "R" on the helmet signifies it is a German Reserve infantry regiment. The maps as a studio set background are really cool.

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Thanks Thomas and yes: the R stands for reserve.

@borkokostic4388 3 года назад

@@HistoryHustle What a movie about this : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LNHrYAG9WzM.html

@HistoryOfRevolutions 3 года назад

"Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight" - Marina Tsvetaeva

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Interesting quote.

@jessepapaver5407 3 года назад

Nice video stefan

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Thank you Jesse!

@deathofbeauty1 3 года назад

Amazing little known history. Thank you!

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Thanks Fred!

@DRFelGood 3 года назад

Fascinating piece of history new to my ears.. Great Research Stephan ✊ : ) 🚒Jesse

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Cheers, Jesse 👍

@lynxrazor1494 3 года назад

Can you make a video about the female snipers in ww2? Also another great video Stephan!

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Yes, perhaps something for the future. Although it's already widely covered on this platform.

@lynxrazor1494 3 года назад

@@HistoryHustle ok, thanks!

@HistoryandHeadlines 3 года назад

Is "Women's Battalion of Death" the catchiest name of a military unit ever?

@MrKakibuy 3 года назад

Yes, absolute classic

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Found Norwegian Legion also catchy because of the rhime.

@julianshepherd2038 3 года назад

Scares me

@doug814 3 года назад

Sounds like a good band name.

@HistoryandHeadlines 3 года назад

@@HistoryHustle Rhyming is always fun!

@davidraper5798 3 года назад

I never knew that. Fascinating.

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Agree!

@jamesgibbs7872 3 года назад

You are the best Historical Video Presenter!

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Thank you!

@semkoops 3 года назад

These ladies were brave for fighting in a man's army in a man's world. I can't imagine the discrimination they faced. Mooi filmpje!

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Thanks for your reply!

@viktoriayuzefovich8995 2 года назад

thank you

@HistoryHustle 2 года назад

Thanks for watching.

@ninacruz3066 3 года назад

Wonderful presentation. Pls produce more re women participation in other theaters/ times of wars 1&2.

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Hey Nina, thanks! Hope to cover more in the future.

@dashippo4372 3 года назад

Good channel, good content! Keep it up, man!

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Great, many thanks!

@caslinden1373 3 года назад

Weer een mooie video man 👍

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Thank you, Cas!

@johnthomson6507 3 года назад

Russian TV made a mini series about this. They actually performed well as a fighting unit. Even keeping on fighting under the provisional government when most soldiers had deserted or stopped fighting after the Kerensky offensive.

@Guadalajara1937 3 года назад

Do you know the name of the serie?

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

I do now a movie named "Battalion" or something.

@mikewest5529 3 года назад

Wow strong lady meets an awful demise! She fought so hard for her homeland. Amazing video again!! And I would share if I could! Face book and Twitter are cancers. But good luck!! As always a like!!

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Thanks Mike. And yes, also my comment section runs the risk of changing into a toxic wasteland if I don't intervene.

@mikewest5529 3 года назад

@@HistoryHustle That’s sad! People can be so rude. It’s like their parents never taught any manners. If you don’t have something nice to say keep it to yourself!! It’s like babysitting adults! You should only comment like your grandparents are reading them!! Stay safe and positive my friend!! Keep up the beautiful work!! When you finish writing that book I would like to buy a couple!! Thanks as always!

@chrisdeal9945 3 года назад

Wow what a crazy story !! no one could make this stuff up , What a great movie Maria's life would make .

@demonprinces17 3 года назад

Wouldn't be surprised if the soviets made one

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

There is a movie, a Russian movie named 'Batallon' or something.

@chrisdeal9945 3 года назад

@@HistoryHustle Thanks man for all your hard work and helpful responses you are bringing history back to life for so many . Keep up the Hustle bud you're doing great .

@theodorossarafis7370 3 года назад

very good video

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

👌👌

@tng2057 3 года назад

The Petrograd Women Battalion of Death did appear on the Eisenstein film ‘October’ which is about the October Revolution.

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

That's right yes. I remember the scene where they storm the Winter Palace and overcome the female defenders.

@surinfarmwest6645 3 года назад

I know they had women snipers and mortar units in WW2 but was not aware of this. Good lesson!

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Thanks for responding!

@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860 3 года назад

Very interesting. How’s the Netherlands doing with the flooding?

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Thanks King Erik! The South is recovering but now the north is gonna have a hard time I'm afraid..

@mariyanadobreva8724 3 года назад

I know that the USSR used extensively women in WW2, but was not aware about their participation in the army of Tsarist Russia, not only as individuals, but as fighting units. I am very grateful I learnt something new.

@Artur_M. 3 года назад

It was no longer Tsarist Russia. These units (as stated in the video) were created after the February Revolution by the Provisional Government. Kerensky was very much an opponent of the Tsarist regime, a Socialist Revolutionary, just the moderate "Trudovnik" (a centre-left social-democrat). People often forget that Bolsheviks weren't the ones that overthrew the Tsar.

@mariyanadobreva8724 3 года назад

@@Artur_M. Sorry, I meant Russia before it became the USSR.

@Artur_M. 3 года назад

@@mariyanadobreva8724 It's OK, I didn't mean my response as an attack or anything. It's a pretty common mistake, so I just wanted to point it out. :)

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

I do have to say that the Tsar himself allowed this to happen, but by the time it came into motion the Tsar had abdicated.

@mariyanadobreva8724 3 года назад

@@HistoryHustle Thank you.

@thanos_6.0 3 года назад

WW1 is a very overlooked topic. Please make more videos about it. And could you maybe also make some videos about modern Asian history (which is also sadly often overlooked, despite being very interesting)(like the very good video you did about the RJ war) like for example a factions video about the komintang/the chinese nationalist party or a formations video about the chinese and japanese army in WW2 or the Meiji restoration. Just some ideas

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Thanks! Hope to cover more in the future!

@mammuchan8923 3 года назад

Love it! Would make a great name for a death metal band 🖤

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Yes!

@johnthomson6507 3 года назад

Battalion 2015 pretty good

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Yes!

@gibraltersteamboatco888 3 года назад

Excellent as usual. BZ. Saying a women is "too fat" takes stones, not a hill I would choose to die on.

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Thanks for your reply again 👍

@coling3957 3 года назад

so many Russian men were refusing to fight that Kerensky was prepared to allow women's combat battalions.. perhaps they thought the sight of women fighting would shame Russians into taking up arms again? ..

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

They had to inspire the men also yes.

@clementkong8133 3 года назад

A bit misleading. There wasn’t a woman’s battalion under Tsarist Russia. The Tsar only made an exception for Bochkareva. It was only after the fall of the Tsar that Bochkareva made her first woman’s battalion.

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

True. Wanted to start catchy.

@marcelgroen6256 3 года назад

Thanks for sharing, Stefan. At that time the Russian Army had no thrust at all anymore, so not strange the women battalion was not supported anymore.

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Thanks for your reply.

@nickpapagiorgio5056 3 года назад

What an amazing woman to achieve all that she did during her tours of duty and then to travel to the Russian Far East of Vladivostok which must have been treacherous considering how long it is said to be even now by train from Western Russia. I wonder if there is more detail on her journey to the U.S and back to Russia?? That would make a great story I bet! Great video Prof. Stefan!

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Thanks for your reply, Nick!

@johnthomson6507 3 года назад

Батталион 2015 очень жороши передачи

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

👍

@leary4 3 года назад

Ah yes the "Battalion of Death" or as it is more commonly known my x wife.

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

🤣

@nerozero8266 3 года назад

👍

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

@stanleyrogouski 3 года назад

There was nothing feminist about the Russian Women's Battalion of Death. The Czarist government had sent so many underequipped and badly trained Russian peasants into the meat grinder against the the vastly superior Imperial German Army that by 1917 they were willing to use just about anybody as canon fodder. But I think the Russian Women's Battalion of Death is best remembered from Eisenstein's film October, where they play a major (if comic) role guarding the Winter Palace against the Bolsheviks.

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

I understand. Thanks for sharing this.

@bryanmower2703 3 года назад

Nice of the Russians to name one of their cities after a Womble

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Womble... here is where my English fails me.

@Indian_Marschall 3 года назад

🇮🇳🤝🏻🇳🇱

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Yes.

@krixpop 3 года назад

"Women's Battalion of Death" An awesome and badazz name for a unit(s) that did absolutely nothing to earn that name. Really nothing ! Just propaganda purpose, nothing more...

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Many did die so in hindsight it deserved such a name. But I agree, propaganda played a big part indeed.

@ShubhamMishrabro 3 года назад

A video on why communist were progressive and hated religion? People know they did but not why

@billd.iniowa2263 3 года назад

I believe Communism takes the worship of God out of the population and substitutes the worship of the State. Service to the State is what's important, and service to God can get in the way of that.

@stanleyrogouski 3 года назад

@@billd.iniowa2263 I'd recommend Rosa Luxumberg's essay "Socialism and the Churches." You'll quickly realize how silly and reductive the idea that "communism substitutes worship of the state for religion" is. A quote from her essay. "The Social-Democrats want to bring about the state of “communism”; that is chiefly what the clergy have against them. First of all, it is striking to notice that the priests of today who fight against “Communism” condemn in reality first Christian Apostles. For these latter were nothing else than ardent communists."

@MrKakibuy 3 года назад

Because at core communism talks about the working class gaining consciousness of its exploitation and launching a world revolution to seize the means of production, and they view things like religion and nationalism as capitalist distractions

@stanleyrogouski 3 года назад

@@MrKakibuy Note too that the ruling class often goes out of its way to destroy pro-working-class Christians. Think about the CIA sponsoring Salvadoran Death Squads in the 1980s and the murder of Archbishop Romero. And it wasn't the German Social Democrats (which Marx and Engels had a direct role in organizing) who pretty much outlawed the Catholic Church in Germany for the better part of the 1870s and 1880s. It was Bismarck and the Prussian ruling class. I think the classical Marxist attitude (as reflected in Marx's letter about the "opiate of the people") is that under communism the state would whither away and the oppressed would no longer have any need of religion. He wasn't proposing to suppress any particular religion. In the shorter term I think Marxists tend to judge religious people on a case to case basis depending on their class politics. Marxist anti-war protesters regularly march with Quakers and progressive Catholics. The slimy right wing evangelical protestants, on the other hand, who cheat their flock out of money and consistently support militarism and corporatism, well they're the class enemy.

@HistoryHustle 3 года назад

Perhaps in the future I'll cover that Shubham!