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>Russian Women's Battalion of Death
>This first all-female combat unit initially attracted over 2000 enlistees between the ages of eighteen and forty, but Bochkareva's strict discipline and refusal to allow the formation of soldiers' committees soon drove out all but about 300 hardcore volunteers.
>Called into action against the Germans during the Kerensky Offensive, they were assigned to the 525th Kiuruk-Darinski Regiment and occupied a trench near Smorgon. Ordered to go over the top, the soldiers of the war weary men's battalions hesitated. The women, however, decided to go with or without them.
>Eventually they pushed past three trenches into German territory, where soldiers discovered a stash of vodka, which the women tried to break before they could be drunk.
>In his report, the commander of the regiment praised the women's battalion's initiative and courage.
Wew lad. All of the crazy russian aggro, without the drunkedness. Why didn't this catch on?
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Because 9 times out of 10 men will be superior soldiers. Your one anecdote doesn't prove otherwise.
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>>2976883
they also ran away during october.
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There is something oddly pornographic about being overrun by a company of bloodthirsty ruthless women out to kill and maim.
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>>2976883
Because they were completely destroyed at the Winter Palace.
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>>2976901
They were still fighting germans during the revolution though?
They only disbanded and went to their homes after getting harassed (according to some sources ideologically, according to others sexually) by revolutionary forces.
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>>2976912
>They were still fighting germans during the revolution though?
No, they were used to defend the Winter Palace. They were killed though. They didn't run away.
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>>2976883
Do you have more information about them?
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>>2976919
>Night_Witches
Just reading that one of their leaders died a few years ago, and the article said all the "witches" left their autographs in graffiti on the burned Reichstag building.
>>2976922
No, I only learned about them from the Battlefield game DLC that got announced recently, like the pleb I am.
The russian wiki has a lot of text, but the english doesn't. So I am reading google translated russian text at the moment, trying to make sense of it.
This is their command, with the big boss at the left. Not exactly chicks with guns, they went all out soldier.
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