A little music video for inspiration

[cuprum]

 The clip of Russian group "Lube".
 The song is called "Combat" (battalion commander).
 Video from the TV series "Shtrafbat" (punitive battalion).

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[Anatoli]

Thanks for the link Cuprum, will try to find the series with english subs 

[Plynkes]

If only they knew how funny the name of their band sounds to English speakers with an immature sense of humour like me. 

[cuprum]

My site is a small selection of Russian movies with English subtitles. Who wants to watch - I ask here:
http://siberia-miniatures.ru/forum/showthread.php?fid=13&tid=81

[Driscoles]

LoL ...youre right Plynkes...

I saw "Shtrafbat" , completely in Russia although I do not speak any Russian. I think the series enables you to guess what its all about. Will watch it again with subtitles or so....sometimes.

By the way...I must say you do not learn a language by listening like in this Viking movie

[cuprum]

Russian waltz time WWII "front-line in the woods ..." and footage from the movie "The nameless hill."
 Russian assault platoon and attached to him artillerymen to capture a fortified hill in the German rear and hold it until the main forces.

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[cuprum]

Attack of the Polish cavalry. 1939.

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[Anatoli]

The last clip is just a sad piece of communist propaganda from a movie shot in 1957 during the early years of the Soviet occupation that kept (and still keep) the myth of cavalry vs tanks alive. The purpose during those early years following the end of WW2 for the Soviet union was to rewrite history to make it appear as if the Red Army were the saviors and without fault, and the idea of showing stupid Polish soldiers (later as time progressed they shifted focus towards Polish commanders) to morally subdue the occupied Poland after WW2. The brainwashing and history falsification was incredibly effective on the generations that followed.

Even more remarkable still was that it was the Germans with the help of an Italian war correspondent who started the myth of the Polish cavalry vs tank - and the Soviets thought it was so good that they took it and ran with it after the war.

There are a few things that I find quite amazing in the clip, for instance use of lances (which was not part of standard issue armament for cavalry in 1939) that are used as throwing spears?  
And the badly masked T-34 "German Panzer"  

The cavalry charges made during 1939 were done with sabers, and only against unsuspecting infantry for the most part that were taken completely by surprise ( a bit like the Germans were taken by surprise by amored trains showing up in the middle of their tank column at the battle of Mokra). And cavalry were intended to be used as mobile infantry, fighting on foot when contact was made with the enemy rather than "true" cavalry.

If one knows all of that, then you can't be offended by the clip or get some wrong ideas about the content either. Not 100% sure everyone knows that though so that's why I write this explanatory comment.

[cuprum]

Naturally attack on horseback against the tanks - an impossible folly. But I do not see any attack on the tank - there is only one episode, where the cavalry saber cuts tank. This can sometimes make a person can cope with passion. But, of course, not the whole team.

This movie I saw. But I know that the Polish cavalry attacked in the German cavalry units at least six times. And in two cases on the battlefield was present German armor (attack under Kroyanty and Vulke Venglova). Of course, these attacks were directed against infantry. German armored vehicles in both cases appeared on the battlefield suddenly Polish cavalrymen.
Polish soldiers of valor no one denies. We also know that these attacks are successfully developed before the advent of tanks.

If I understand the phrase Polish officer in this episode - he gave the command to his men to retreat with the appearance of German tanks. So, basically, the episode is true. And the peaks at the Lancers were still (some) - they were used as a squadron badges.

T-34 - as the German tanks it is hard not to know :-)
But the film's director, apparently, was not in possession of these German tanks.

[cuprum]

Feature film "The Sniper. Weapons of retaliation."

Action sniper teams:
 Soviet - Stalingrad
 Germany - Castle in Germany (1944)

http://www.youtube.com/v/WoP909C8_k0?version=3&amp;hl=ru_RU&amp;rel=0

[cuprum]

Clip from YouTube for the song of the Russian musical group "Aria."
 The composition is called the "Guardian of the Empire".

 "Death - it rest of the soul in a continuous battle ..."

http://www.youtube.com/v/Q9w4er3ya2w?version=3&amp;hl=ru_RU


Trailer from the joint Russian-Japanese anime project "First Squad".

 The film is about confronting the occult services of Russia and Germany in World War II. The German "Ahnenerbe" is out of the darkness of the soul died in the "Battle on the Ice" Teutonic Knights, who have to turn the tide of war. But in their way stands a detachment of young Soviet psychics ...

[cuprum]

This film to combine with an ancient Russian song "Black raven". The video of Russian musical group "Yakhont".

[cuprum]

Attack Il-2 on the German convoy




The first battle of the Great Patriotic War. Attack Wehrmacht reflect the Soviet border guards.

[cuprum]

The attack the Soviet torpedo planes from the movie "Torpedonostsy (torpedo planes)" under Russian "metal" group "Aria."

[cuprum]

Soviet Marines in the battle for Stalingrad.
 Visuals of the feature film "Stalingrad".