Since this one the 50th episode it reminded me that 2019 was the 50th anniversary of apollo 11. And it's only a matter of weeks until commerical crew launches and Artemis 1 this June it would be epic to see a song about space flight.

Sabaton History I remember when you opened one of your Louisville shows with this fucking song in a goddamn aircraft hangar. God, it was Badass.

bednoobs and russian boomsticks!

Awesome video, guys! Much love from The Frozen Tundra of the Midwest!

there needs to be a song about the woman on the homefront, they fought a valiant battle as well. also, when do we get something about Canada, Captain Mad Jack Churchill, and the Black American soldiers who were subjected to jim crow laws and treated like Undermensh in their own army?

I'm shure she was great pilot

You should be proud of her, she was a badass woman.

she was, respect for the warriors who fought братушке

SUBLIME to mrs Ryabova.LOVE&RESPECT FROM SERBIA...

@@livianegidius9772 если ты серб, то зачем ты пишешь по английски? Ты же можешь писать кириллицей

Those planes were extensively used for recon, training, med-evac, light bombing, liason and probably other roles, flown almost entirely by men both day and night. It was one of the most produce planes in the Soviet Union ever. The 588th is just really famous because of the amount of propaganda produced featuring them, much like the Soviet sniper Zaitsev.

There were one women night bomber regiment and a lot of men ones. The 588 is mostly famous becouse it was women's. The war isn't women's deal. But they fought.

Hold my girdle!

Most Sabaton comment sections: Jokes about boys at school being tougher when being compared to girls. This video: *AVIATION! DEVIATION! UNDETECTED STEALTH PERFECTED!*

Альберт Исаханов , that war was everyone’s deal, not women’s or men’s

Dylan Tichkowsky silence*

RUSSIAN NIGHTTIME FLIGHT PERFECTED

EXPLOOOOSION!! - Privyet Megumin

@BatCatShipper Pushing on and on, their planes are going strong Air Force number one!

@@thegeneraljohn2895 Somewhere down below they're looking for the foe Bombers on the run!

Crap and propaganda. People dont get shot by commissars they did not had permission to do so (Propaganda), there are memories of the shot down pilots who were returning back to base with a lot of adventures but not being shot JUST BECAUSE of VODKA. Women were equal then and every one was admiring them rather than mocking (Again propaganda).

Night witch - only one female squadron in a male night bomber division. But who interesting the fate of these men? We've got a strong women, and, this is a new trend

... Wings of glory

@@panzerscoutsmemories1152 Let we certain - women usually is phisically weaker then us, they can't get so heavy weight like us...But they stronger than us, for example, to get extrapain. Else, they can't give birth.

Максим Казарницкий Well I don’t disagree with that, finally someone using facts

He stomped his way out of the womb.

@@RacingVagabond No, he was slamming his knee coming out

@@firstconsul7286 perhaps he shoot out like an artillery shell

"born" hahahahahaha you mean spawned!

He wasn't born by a female human, he was shot out of a tank that was struck by lightning. (This comment is stolen)

Desert - Fortune favours the brave A song about Lydia Litvyak

Fun fact about Pavlichenko: when she was in the USA for a propaganda tour she was extremely offended by the american press. The reason? Their interviews with her were more about how warfare impacted her femininity (Red army rules on make-up, and the cut of her uniform), than about the war-stories Pavlichenko came to tell, to garner support for USA entering the war on the Soviet side. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNeZZpxn0dW7pGg.html

"Lady Death" isn't a good example of that, her story is completely faked. There were other female snipers that had true stories and were fighting against the germans for real. And we should remember about them first and foremost.

@@galis4383 wtf? Her record wasn't faked. Those were rumours nothing more. Her 308 kills were confirmed so, yeah not lies

@@galis4383 Completely is too strong of a word. Sure ( as with any propaganda icon of that time, not just in SU ), her real acomplisments were blown out of proportions for , but there have to be some to begin with.

It was just a phase

The pre-viagra mohawk! 🤣🤣🤣

We have a few beautiful pics that prove it on our 20 years Sabaton fan tribute video.

@@PiscatorLager The Prophet has spoken

They Must Have Been Altered!

change laugh into cackle >:)

Germans: Scream when the Cloud of gas speaks russian

When the winds whisper in russian* because then the NAJT WITCHES CAHM!!!!!

@@ErC0411 Great reference!

russians dont give a fuck about anything! Except alcohol prohibition

you just won the internet

This is the corniest pun I've seen in while. Good job :P

The joke flew over@Stefan Leca 's head like the Night Witches over a German camp.

i see what you did there (despite the dark of the night lol)

@Stefan Leca that biplanes are OP in warthunder.

Subject of the song matters almost as much.

@@0WickedSensation0 I agree! Never said I didn't :P

Andreas Millings I wasn’t arguing friend just adding my two cents. The last album although I enjoyed it and I love Sabaton was weak, the subject material has no interest for me. Ancient wars, WW2, Vietnam and my own war is what has my interest.

Thank you! Did you like the video though?

@@SabatonHistory hell jeah

Nice!

If the dropped the nightwitches on us why is my house still standing?

@@ScileSc you are living to far from the ostfront i suppose?

Holy shit please upvote this man

We have already scheduled the next four videos but we'll for sure cover Shadows on day.

I thought that Indy already covered Tolkien on his other channel The Great War

@@mexisamurai018 I'm sure he has one there, but I'm referring to the song "Shadows" and its relation to Sabaton

Isn't ´´Shadows´´ about the Ringwraiths in LOTR?

Let's be honest, most of the representation issues in cinema are either pushed by the elites (who have zero knowledge on how life really is for regular folks) or by jealous/man-hating bloggers and keyboard activists. And, sadly, with the current climate in Western cinema, I doubt they can make a satisfying script for the Night Witches. Especially since this history is about women being truly strong when facing adversity, and not about pushing any sort of ideology. For a good series on this to happen, we'd need to find writers, producers, directors and investors who really cared about history. And not just views or money.

BF5 was a great place to create a story mission about Night Witches, they have planes and Air combat, so, such missions will be a good plain training for players too, but... they prefer to create a Cyborg....

Because it would end up praising the Soviet Union unintentionally.

@@blackearl7891 No... It will not, if they will not do such especially... Saying some good things about people is not praising the nation in overall, also Soviet Union had as many bad as many good things too, yes, it's demonized a lot today, but the problem mostly was in people who ruled USSR and in system, which was created by this people, but it does not change the fact, that some Soviet girls fight against Nazi and became heroes not just of the Soviet Union, but of the world too, so, seeing them as just USSR heroes, as any soldier who fight against Nazi, is wrong, Nazi and Fascism was a global problem, which touch almost any nation all over the planet and still is actual, not as much, as in first decades of 20th century, but still there are groups of people who see Nazism or Fascism as an adequate Political ideology... They do not do this, cos they do not want to create a Story about people, they are creating Political propaganda more, than movies or games today (not all,of course, but I'm about companies like EA, and s.c. Modern, "Intersectional Feminism" is a Political Ideology, which is not a Feminism at all, tbh... But even a Feminism was a political ideology...), so they are creating product, which dictates you how you must think, and not the story about Heroes of the WWII, so they just do not give a fk about Night Witches... Also, after hearing this story of Night Witches and this song, did you or someone else really change their mind about USSR and what was USSR in overall, as about the nation, cooperation of the nations ? And socialistic and even Communistic ideology is still alive and there are a lot of people who believe in Marx's neo-liberalism and different type of utopias. Maybe, they afraid to undemonize it, but it will not change any bad things, which Soviet Union did to people, as no demonization will change the fact, were Soviet Union really helped and did a good things, creating Icons of Evil is always wrong, but this is most popular modern Political strategy against opponents, make them look Evil... Sorry for my bad English.

@@Xelluse oh boy. Neoliberalism doesn't come from marx. Let's start that out immediately. It arises from thatcherism, and reaganism in the 80s, with aspect of alan Greenspan. Second the term neoliberalism as many spew it out comes from the center left moving towards a more free market approach. So you're getting confused in the political, and economical aspect of it. Second, the biggest issue with the night witches at least in Hollywood. It's because we still have aspect of cold war mentality deep in our psyche. At least in America, anything in regards to the Soviets is toxic whether it's warranted or not. In it's core the Soviet witches basis itself on the love of russia, but also the aspect of communism as they felt they were owed that equality supposedly that communism preached. So already their entire aspect is rooted in politics, and politics viewed quite hostile by a certain group of Americans. Personally, I kinda want a movie about the night witches or at least a tv series. Also most studio focus on the American side because they get massive grant from the military for making them look good which is great for the studio bottom line.

UNDETECTED! UNEXPECTED! Wings of glory tell the story.

It was at that moment the Germans at Rodina knew, they f****d up.

Awesome, thanks!

Ты субтитры читал? Нашу историю не забудут, ее откорректируют так, что сам будешь не рад

I heard about them when I got into military history when I started building models of military vehicles. Planes by far are my favourite followed by tanks. Ships are fun to build but a bitch to mask and paint with the airbrush.

Always ready to deliver new and interesting facts on the war! Cheers!

easy target

​@@acknodbikes5051 Try to find the target when you: Can't hear it + can't see it + don't know where they take off lines are located + don't know where they are coming from + don't know when. Yeah, an easy target during the sunny day. But during the night you is their bitch.

@@acknodbikes5051 it was never a easy target. the plane was so slow the german pilots could not go slow enough to hit them.

There was a pilot called Witch Hunter because of him hunting the Night Witches. Shame we don't hear more of him.

@@acknodbikes5051 not really. The bombers' speed was lower than the minimum speed of German fighter planes which made them hard to target.

Sooooo.....what did you think of the video then!?

@@SabatonHistory you've set the bar high with the previous videos. And once again you have delivered :D It's not only the band's music that is out of this world, but the educational aspect is also amazing. Sabaton (and Indy) has inspired me to learn more about history than school ever managed to do. Keep up the awesome work! But I'm really sad that I couldn't attend tonight's show. I hope you'll be back in Zurich soon.

Они просто немного не в курсе, что во Второй мировой в СССР по решению трибунала было расстреляно немногим больше чем во Франции во время Первой мировой. Но если пересчитать на длину фронта, а так же на количество людей участвовавших в этих войнах, то сравнение даже не рядом. Французов можно выставить кровавыми тиранами... Но об этом как то не принято говорить на западе.

@@igorvolhen9855 Мужик озвучивает общеизвестные данные западной историографии, так что ничего удивительного.

We noticed this as well. Dont know why is he telling us these lies.

@@stasbyelov2100 Как я уже сказал в ветке ниже, это просто стереотип западной историографии, а не намеренная ложь.

@@stasbyelov2100 no. You noticed this. 80% didn't.

Yeah this has been my favorite Sabaton song since it's release. And not until today did I learn that it's actually about russian women that faced sexism but wanted to serve their country with passion. And serve they did holy smokes what badass ladies!!!!

Awesome! Thanks for the support! And we agree that women in warfare is a very interesting albeit overlooked topic. By the way, Sabaton has a special form on their website for song ideas: www.sabaton.net/do-you-have-a-good-idea-for-a-song/

@@SabatonHistory Thanks, I've sent some ideas in already. 🙂 It would be awesome to hear at least one of them as a song one day.

@@tejesedeny Im only now noticing how many of the women in Warfare are from Russia. I wonder how that came to be...

​@@tejesedeny Radical Left wing military organizations are a treasure trove for stories of women in warfare, as a result of their philosophical belief in equality (also between men and women). So those might be of interest as a topic of research. :) For example women served at front-line troops along men in the Anarchist CNT/FAL during the Spanish war, during the Algerian revolution in the 1950's, and women also fought in Mao Zedongs Militias, and he reported to said "Women hold up half the sky" in tribute to women of his party. To this day the Kurdish (decidedly left wing) independence movement in Syria is famous for its female fighters.

@@belisarius6949 USSR was only military wich ( at lest on paper that is :P ) welcomed both men and women equaly. Tho from history perspective, women were present in warfare well since deep antiqity. Sure, *enormous* majority of warriors through out history were men, that can not be denied ! But there was always few ( very few buy still ) women who fought. After all, archetype of amazon/warrior princess didn't came form nowhere ;) .....

Yes. She was a driver of the tank. Mark Felton has video about her. Title of the video: Fighting girlfriend.

Fighting girlfriend was the name of the tank can’t remember the name of the tanker. She was such a badass that she jumped out of her tank in the middle of battle to fix her tank. It eventually got her killed but I’m pretty sure she was awarded hero of the Soviet Union.

@@Dog5ight You are right. Even the tank was destroyed. But Soviet named "Fighting girlfriend" next tank. And next. And other. Last took part in the Berlin conquer.

yep

I was JUST about to make that comment. That woman was a total badass. Also there was one wounded that killed herself with a grenade when she was surrounded and managed to get a couple kills.

U-2 is the only biplane which took down a jet, so

@@chupasaurus Yea, I guess that fighter jet pilot was really embarrassed when he later had to report that he lost to a biplane and did so because he forgot to stay above his stall speed.. By the way, that was also a problem for the Germans as most if not all their fighter planes had higher stall speed than the maximum speed of the U-2 biplane

BUT BLOODY SOVIETS KILLED BILLIONS OF THEIR OWN MEN!!!!1

@@mooneychan mne tak Alexander pokoyanovich skasal

@@mooneychan trillions

@@denissivtsov819 All of them.

@@bebsik229 Alexandr Pokoyanovich vsegda govorit pravdy.

Hell yeah!!!

I think there is a T Shirt of this

Russian nighttime flight perfect, flawless mission undetected.

@@thomaspunt2646 PUSHING ON AND ON THEIR PLANES ARE GOING STRONG

AIRFORCE NUMBER 1!!!

Somewhere down below, they are looking for the foe

BOMBERS ON A RUN!!!

Возможно, на западе сложилась слишком сильная уверенность в то что это было так. Сабы эти видео в том числе и по худ литре делают. В ролике про Сталинград ещё больше подобного. Грустно.

Uh oh we got a Five Star Soviet General, telling us the "truth" of the war straight from Joseph Stalin's mouth.

@@KGWyzel Причем тут Сталин? Это же обычная здравая логика. Человек или герой или не герой. Есть множество уродов, которые не хотели советской власти и поэтому воевали за фашистов против собственного народа. Зачем приписывать к ним тех, которые пошли на войну по собственному желанию?!

@@2002babay In english please.

@@KGWyzel he said: "Why are you talking about Stalin? It's only logic. The man is a hero, or not a hero. There were many bastards who didn't want soviet government, so they fighted for nazi's. So why you're attribute to that freaks people, who fighted because they whanted to fight?" And... He is right in some things. But only in a few.

смотришь, и гордость берёт. это было невероятное поколение! и очень жаль, что шведы это могут круто преподнести, а мы нет.

Нынешние феминистки могут только орать о правах и плакать услышав о реальных обязанностях

Комиссары часто пытали и казнили упавшего за линией фронта лётчика... Мересьев ржёт над этим на небесах.

Немцы ненавидели наших лётчиц, и, если они при аварии попадали в плен, издевались над ними особо жёстко. Поэтому они сами предпочитали смерть

@@radikradik539 тоже всегда об этом думаю слушая сабов. Они могут спеть о нас круто, а мы нет. У нас на эту тему только карикатурные Любэ - Сабатон на экстра минимальных настройках))) у них в песне о 9роте достоверности больше чем у Феди Бондарчука))) то неловкое чувство, когда залётные шведы знают нашу историю лучше, и преподносят ее вкуснее, чем рашн режиссер)))

Not many teachers have enough bravery to confess that they may know less than their student. So, you're lucky enough. History teachers in the schools I admitted to. mostly were very selfish persons: "you're just a pupil, and I AM THE TEACHER, so shut up and don't even dare to correct me: I AM ALWAYS RIGHT!" One exclusion was in junior grade, when we learned the history of the ancient Greece, and I definitely knew more about the history of Olympics then she, ar than was written in schoolbook. And I had about 15 minutes for my narration in front of the class, instead of her.

46 гвардейский или 588 до 1943 года

588

ТЁМНОЙ НОЧЬЮ НА ОКОПЫ НАЛЕТЯТ И СБРОСЯТ БОМБЫ. ЗАТАИЛИСЬ, В НЕБЕ ГДЕ-ТО, ИХ ВСЕГДА ЛИШЬ ЖДЁТ ПОБЕДА!

Про тысячи других По-2 на которых летали мужчины никто не вспоминает...

@@vladislavshohlovs5719 почему? Подвиг пилота Мамкина вполне себе на слуху

What historically accurate WWII women in combat? not disabled cyborg British front line female infantry soldiers? because that's a thing that really happened on the western front so say EA. :P

Night Witch regiment? nah. Doing a modern representation of Norwegian saboteurs, replacing an entire team of soldiers with a mom/daughter resistance doing the same job just with more explosions? That's history.

@@Ch4pp13 "Hstury" *stonks dude in background*

They should add USSR to the game... For the start... But they won't - new western policy says, that USA won the WWII, and there was no USSR. I guess BF 6 will be about brave US and British cyborg-women batallions defeating Nazi-German-Soviet alliance. Mark my words, it will be.

@@sentar_dv that actually sounds pretty cool. For a spinoff, not a main entry.

Good to hear!

НЕ ПИЗДИ'те, на сколько Я знаю, действительно расстреливали или отправляли на минные поля, не знаешь историю заткни рот

В 9 главе УК РСФСР от 1926 г. явно написано, за что расстреливали и за что отправляли. Случаи пленения расписаны в 14 части 193 статьи. "... или преднамеренная, не вызывавшаяся боевой обстановкой, сдача в плен... ...влечет за собой применение высшей меры социальной защиты." Отправляли или расстреливали за то, что солдат сдался в плен без необходимости, как, например, действовали перебежчики.

И многие, вернувшиеся из плена жили долго? все сидели на чемоданах, зная, что за ними придут.

We have a very large and dedicated team who do an amazing job in editing and colorizing the material. It really makes the stories come to life in a new way!

@@SabatonHistory Precisely! Please give all my congrats and gratefulness to everyone of the team! I litteraly had little stars in my eyes while watching. You brought all those incredible women back to life with your awesome work!

@Chô Yume I passed this on to our editor Iryna and she was very touched by your kind words. Thank you very much for that!

@@SabatonHistory Aw

También agradezcan a Irina y al equipo de edición de mi parte. Me imagino la cantidad de trabajo e investigación para que esas imágenes quedarán así de hermosas. Esta muy bien restauradas y coloreadas. Tanto que pensé que fueron tomadas originalmente a color. Algún día se animarán a lanzar un álbum fotografico?? Saludos.

Absolutely the exact same here. I was so confused at first.

when the album first came out and i heard the song I thought he said "from the gates of hell Parris island", I was like what do the Marines have to do with night witches.

Ok, so I'm not the only one who heard "Ellis island" that makes me feel a little bit better

Why did you go ahead and make that comment? Why did I read it for that matter?

Да и желания попасть в плен не было тоже...

Thanks! I hope we did well now especially as this is your favorite!

@@SabatonHistory Yes, it's an awesome episode. Looking forward to seeing you live in Frankfurt on the 31st :)

Thanks!

@@SabatonHistory Just saw you tonight and I was very happy (and a little surprised) to see you playing Night Witches. I had expected some WW1 themed songs from other albums (in addition to the Great War ones), but not really this one. It was an awesome show! Thank you for the great performance. My brother (who was very happy to see Price of a Mile being included in the set list a well), my buddy and myself had a great time :)

Micah Murphy really? Who?

@@331coolguy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariya_Oktyabrskaya

Evil Babai thanks and also why is she not that well known? She is Rather interesting. Also I’m pretty sure Disney kind of regrets not paying attention to her

@@331coolguy Nowadays, Disney is infamous for cultivating bad taste among young audience and rubbing its classics along with other great franchises they purchased, so thanks, no need that kind of afternoon.

@@331coolguy and have you heard about her? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

Congrats on quitting!

@@jfarrar19 Thank you...its going well, still not smoking! And loving the Sabaton History channel

ЭТО надо чаще показывать современным: лайкерам и тиктокерам.

Someone's buttmad.

@scooty470 That's impossible! Comrade Stalin said that was Capitalist Propaga- Wait a second...

@scooty470 Joseph Stalin won the war, the USSR won the war, all those millions of victims for the sake of one thing-for the sake of victory over the fascist, he came to his native land, chose villages and cities, many mothers were left without children. And you can't compare Stalin with Hitler. I don't want you to have the opinion that all Russians are such patriots and pray for Stalin, no, it's just a deep sense of pride for those people, countrymen, HEROES. Good luck to you p. s. Translated through Google translator, sorry for mistakes.

​@scooty470 and how many people died? Tell me the numbers, and most importantly, where you got this information.

@scooty470 bruh,you've not studied enough. The millions of deaths were a side effect of mass industrialisation. All of a sudden,farmers had to adapt to a new method of plantations that were industrialised and not horticultural,as they were used to. This resulted in famines. Stalin himself directly ordered the killings of about 100000,and that is nothing compared to that of Hitler.

Eli Kasinger YES, FINALLY SOMEONE WHO AGREES

That mad lad

изучайте историю. все в открытом доступе

Also there was the problem that if you survived the crash and made it back to friendly lines you would be arrested and likely killed

@@jacobnugent8159 No, well, this is already a real myth. Filtering - yes, there was. And many of them passed it quietly. It is standard practice to simply establish the authenticity of documents and other data. But an immediate execution, that's nonsense. I understand why you think so, these myths are tenacious. If anything, this is my family's personal experience.

@@jacobnugent8159 And returning to the Night Witches. I do not know if there is anything on the topic in your language, but if you can find the memoirs of the pilots, read it. There are a lot of really hard moments without too much. Exactly memories. There are a lot of heavy lines and without myths.

Short attention span, a predictable result of American public "education".

@@stephenarling1667 I'm Canadian

@@Zivon96 Nonetheless, American public "education" cranks out such products daily. My guess is your customer was educated in America or simply obtuse, perhaps both.

May I ask the name of the book?

@@stephenarling1667 You want some water to dilute most of that salt?

I hope you liked it!

@@SabatonHistory My first real Concert INCREDIBLE thank you!!

We will! Thanks!