Comments on: Bicycle Brigades http://www.strangetrue.org/2013/07/16/bicycle-brigades/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bicycle-brigades Berlin → bike → Saint Petersburg → ... Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:09:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: papish http://www.strangetrue.org/2013/07/16/bicycle-brigades/#comment-1602 papish Fri, 19 Jul 2013 07:47:16 +0000 http://www.strangetrue.org/?p=1017#comment-1602 I recently watched the Soviet Film “Only Old Men Are Going to Battle” about Ukrainian fighter pilots during the war. It features an all-women bombing unit based on the “Witches.” Of course, in addition to heroics, the USSR also formed a “voluntary” People’s Army (Opolcheniye) which basically sent 200,000 untrained and mostly unarmed civilians (women included) directly against German tanks with catastrophic results.

]]> By: Jim Lewis http://www.strangetrue.org/2013/07/16/bicycle-brigades/#comment-1507 Jim Lewis Wed, 17 Jul 2013 05:12:29 +0000 http://www.strangetrue.org/?p=1017#comment-1507 If you haven’t read the article yet, the obituary of the Night Witch Nadezhda Popova is very interesting on the resourcefulness and bravery of the Soviets during WWII.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/world/europe/nadezhda-popova-ww-ii-night-witch-dies-at-91.html?ref=obituaries&_r=0

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