I always like to share "good enough" movies that I think nobody really knows about,
and Russian movies always fit the bill.
This one is also Russian from 2015 about Women Battalion formed in 1917 after
the Russian revolution overthrown the Monarchy, and the former Royal soldiers refused to
continue fight the Germans any longer at the side of the newly formed provisional goverment.
The provisional government came with an idea, how to force them to fight again.
They formed two females only Battalions and sent them into the trenches to fight the Germans instead.
Now, since this is a True story, the results were as expected, but credit where it is due,
the women held the line long enough for the men soldiers who couldn't watch or listen to what was happening to their women, to hastily join them and held the Germans back together in the end
after all.
The movie has decent cinematography and combat scenes. Nothing special or over the top, but
simply good enough.
I liked particularly that the movie didn't try to portray the women as warriors, but rather keep them
as you would imagine your typical feminine woman, but put her into a mortal combat situation - yeah...
Well the effect was as desired, even just watching the movie, I as a man got "triggered" if not enraged each time you see a very feminine woman to be killed in a merciless violent way.
Close quarters combat was a no contest, even "transferring" POWs seemed to be a dangerous task for the escorting female "guard" (which idiot would send only one?), but when using firearms, they weren't completely useless.
It's worth mentioning that those women were also volunteers, and even their leader, a seasoned female soldier who fought previously alongside the men, thought that it was a very bad idea if not impossible - to turn the women into soldiers.
But they had the guts to join, went through the training (although not passing really at anything), and then held the line in the trenches until the men finally arrived - they were used, but they had no illusions about it.
It worked, except then the Bolsheviks made peace with Germany soon after anyway and the Eastern Front was over anyway. (Because new civil war between the former provisional government and the Bolsheviks took over.)
Not to mention the fact that in reality, Russian soldiers of course were still fighting, but were largely demoralized and prone to retreat. The two combat (there were more non-combat female battalions formed) female only battalions were numbering only 5000, so their overall effect on the outcome of the fighting was at best negligible. But since this was of course meant to raise the morale and shame the male soldiers - who indeed in their sector came to help in the end, it could have had similar effect on the whole front as a whole indeed, holding the line for the couple months needed.
Sadly, I wasn't able to find any reliant statistics on their combat casualties, I'm sure many more outside of me would be interested in that information to build the full picture of it all.
Hopefully they haven't been all but wiped out.
Now a little bit of mental gymnastic for the fun of it:
Imagine that those female battalions were never formed and as a result of that, instead of holding the line, the Royal Russian soldiers would just give up or retreat to the Germans in 1917, not willing to fight for the Bolsheviks who got into power by killing the whole Royal Family; Germans then taking over the whole Russia from the hands of the Bolsheviks and let's say for a balance, still "lost" / negotiated for peace in the end with the allies in 1918, getting better terms - that they still would have to yield the European territories (as in our normal history), but could keep the Russian territory with lesser reparations.
Thus, coming into WW2 the whole of Russia is at the side and disposal to Hitler.
What would have happened?
I know it is a looong stretch, but what if these 5000 brave female soldier volunteers steered the human history as a whole, into a completely different direction?
Негізгі бет Фильм және анимация Battalion (2015) - When Men refused to fight, Women took their place in the Trenches of WW1
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