SABATON - Lady of the Dark (Animated Story Video) || Sabaton react

[@Sonofthesword]

Great song choice. Sabaton also has a 2nd channel Called Sabaton history where Sabaton brings in a Historian to talk about the historical event that a song is dedicated to along with how the song was written .

[@MatthewEdwards-v1m]

Milunka Savic is the most decorated female combatant in the history of warfare. She served the in the Serbian army during the First Balkan War and WWI earning medals from Russia, France, Britain, and her homeland of Serbia. She was largely forgotten after the war and would later raise four daughters while in poverty before passing away at the age of 81. She became involved in the army during the First Balkan War when she disguised herself as a man as her brother was sick with tuberculosis and couldn't fight when he was called to serve. When discovered, her commanding officer would offer her a position with the nursing division as it was considered improper for women to fight at the time. She insisted that she'd like to fight rather than be a nurse. Her CO said he'd think it over and she'd hear from it after he deliberated. It took about an hour before he returned and allowed to continue fighting on the frontlines.

[@reighniz4488]

You forgot the part where she stood at attention for the whole hour he was deciding. She told him she would stand there and not move until he let her back onto the field.

[@bingoE]

Her unit was part of French army in Africa where she spend few months fighiting for France. That is where she earned french medals.

[@JasonLLewis01]

Her Carrying the flag is due to the older way unit standard bearers used to act in combat. Especially during the american civil war the regiment would carry either a flag specific to it or the national flag on both sides and during charges the flags would be used as a way to guide troops towards objectives and keep troops organized and help make reorganizing easier. Flag beares usually today are ceremonial as we have wireless communication. It was practical at the time. Flag bearers did carry sidearms during the world wars aswell as bayonet knives. Some would carry sabers or the flag may have had a spear like tip to use. The last famous instance of combat standard bearers was in the battle of berlin and pacific wear flags would be strapped to rifles by the japanese and russia had flags carried by soldiers in the numbers as high as 30 to have their banner raised on the reichstag building at the end if the european war. Modern standard bearers participate in changing if the guard or colors ceremonies. And in the cold war some armies still had units carry flags in combat, usually mounted on vehicles or carried folded in bags to raise on conquered objectives.

[@coromark]

This woman is the most decorated female soldier ever.

[@daedalron]

And those decorations were not for show, she was an absolute badass as well. Took her brother's spot in the army because he was bedridden. When she was discovered as a female, she refused to be changed unit (to become a nurse), and basically forced her way into staying in a frontline unit, against the decision of every officers...

[@xJamesLaughx]

A lot of people say that the model they used to represent her in the video looks a lot like Floor Jansen of the metal group Nightwish and the one who handed her the flag after she got wounded looks like Pär of Sabaton.

[@drigerdranzer7514]

Yes that's true. Sabaton like to hide Easter eggs and themselves in the videos.

[@malcolmthorne9779]

YES!! MOAR SABATON!! Do "1916" next. Bring some tissues though. You will definitely cry from that vid.

[@Kogan87]

Gonna try and catch your stream some day and loving your reactions to Sabaton. Looking forward to when you will be watching Bismarck. :)

[@mitologijaiokultizam7608]

Hey, I'm really pleasantly surprised when I saw this reaction of yours to Lady of the dark. We in Serbia until nowdays always remember our Milunka Savić, she was a real national hero, and a good person in general. She had her daughter, and adopted and raised twelve more girls who were war orphans side by side to her daughter. And she is with Nikola Tesla, Mihailo Pupin, and nowadays Nikola Jokić and Novak Djoković, one of the greatest Serbian people ever. Thanks for the great video, and much love, respect, and best wishes from Serbia, southeast Europe.🙋🥰🤩🇷🇸❤️🇺🇸🥂🙏🌄

[@joshuaturcotte6724]

Grenadier was a position placed by the British forces, subsiquently American forces took it as well. With this the job in mostly later representations everywhere, before WW2 generally the "Grenadier" was a trained explosives person, often given demolition charges, TnT, digging equipment, and often a basic rifleman kit. Soldiers that were to be equiped with the soul purpose of giving the enemy a hail of grenades were called " Bombardier ". Often the soldiers equipment was limited due to production streingth as well, so a soldier with grenades would give up ammo as a trade. Each soldier for WW1 would come with 1 rifle, 4 clips, and a loose bag of 40 rounds. If your looking at a " Bombardier " thats a whole different level, they can get up to 6 grenades, as a trade they would be expected to give up there weapons to other soldiers if they do this and often they would be given a melee weapon (Often this was a shovel or knife, though some soldiers had to make clubs or weapons of there own). Handguns were only issued to officers (if the nation didnt make them buy it themselves), and specific troops, most enlisted soldiers would have to purchase there handguns in any armed forces branch, following this the weapon is also designated propperty of that army usually as well and its illegal to take said weapons home after you served (This end part can be worked around if done right). Flags were listed as a "Primary Weapon", if you agreed to wave the standard in combat you were to not have a Primary Arm. To pick up the standard in combat is believed to be the most trusted person on the battle line, enough so that they trust your skills in melee to be able to beat the enemy bare handed. Generally nobody would open fire at a Flagbearer as they dont really have any face first value as a target in a firefight, Moral is one thing, stupidity is another, why shoot a flag bearer instead of firing into the 20 man wall pushing at you with knives and guns? Keep in mind what I said before, limited ammunition and limited resources mean everything is effect for form. Flag Bearer's stoped appearing in WW2 officially because Artillary would drop areas and flag bearers were a waist of manpower on a frontline. Often they now deligate the roll of flag bearer to the Color Guard and the Band to raise moral of the troops headed out from leave to the fray. Another insane bit about the end of this is a lot of people forget is that she was harassed by German soldiers while under Nazi occupation in WW2, and she just brushed them off like they were a basic annoyance. She would at some point at the end of WW2 adopt a lil girl and raised her well as a single mother. When later asked, her response was that the men basically were too afraid to ask her out. Its not confirmed, but its implied that she took in a orphan she saw as WW2 was at its height. She had actually adopted a few and raised them as well as she could, the children dont get mentioned past that point and thats about as much as we know from her later years. I highly recommend watching Sabaton History, its there B channel where they have a back-story behind every song and historian showcased everything as best as is known.

[@reighniz4488]

She was an expert with grenades.

[@DivusMagus]

Their "Christmas Truce" music video is like a mini movie. 100% recommend.

[@najroe]

Those medals are HUGE! achievements, we are talking highest honors given to soldiers. She was awarded the French Légion d’Honneur (Legion of Honour) twice, as well as the Russian Cross of St. George, the British medal of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael, and the Serbian Miloš Obilić medal. She was the sole female recipient of the French Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 with the gold palm attribute for service in World War I.

[@tomicbranislav3]

Do not forget the Karađorde Star with crossed swords (Means you got the same award twice) which is the highest award for courage in the royal army then and in the Serbian Army today

[@najroe]

@@tomicbranislav3 just listed the ones I remembered, there where several other

[@tomicbranislav3]

@@najroe no worries mate... She was one hell of a soldier... The School for NCO-s in the Serbian army actually named Sgt. Milunka Savić in her honor

[@Alex-xt1rr]

If my memory serves me right she was the ONLY one to be awarded the French Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 with the gold palm attribute for service in World War I.

[@tomicbranislav3]

@@Alex-xt1rr the only woman yes

[@sharptoe5474]

5:20 Wonder Woman in the comics was WWII. They changed it to WWI for the movie because they were going for a more general anti-war message and felt that it would come across better that way.

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

16:40 to be fair the history here is a bit jumbled up.... She joined the army in the first Balkan war, was noticed to be a woman during the second and did a bunch of heroics in WW1

[@ChaosRouge]

Night Witches has to be next. Youll love that one

[@emberparadox458]

I did Night Witches before this one ;)

[@akashiamizore193]

SABATON has so many great songs

[@vegvisir9276]

its insulting she would even try to compare Wonder Woman to Savic, Wonder Woman could only every dream of achieving stuff Savic did

[@isaiahoconnor8236]

I love how they mix the band into the characters

[@ryanwight9116]

Definitely up there with one of my favorite Sabaton animated story videos. Only one I like more than this is The First Soldier

[@dtcanada80]

Went to Georgia this year to see them live and it was amazing, they were with Judas Priest.

[@drigerdranzer7514]

4:50 And playing the cello score for Wonderwoman is the amazing Tina Guo that appear in their official video Steel Commander and their live video Swedish Pagans from Wacken.

[@MegaDog555]

🐕lady of the dark is my fav

[@andreasgaming9765]

The history channel is great recommendation too ^^(Sabaton)

[@ranekeisenkralle8265]

Okay.. that's even more points for you. Not just Battletech and Shadowrun, but also Sabaton!

[@StevenMRA]

A couple of things: 1) She is the most decorated female solider in history - according to all history I've read (and I'm a history nerd) 2) "Before women were allowed to serve" - most women did not WANT to go on the battlefield - especially after the first few months when men came home all broken and dismembered. 3) She lived a humble life after the war - her country did not take good care of her after the war (as to $$$$).

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

17:10 Nooot exactly bomber is an imperfect translation of "bombašica" and we also call hand granades hand bombs so the granadeer of Kolubara would be a better translation

[@andrewhowell1344]

I remember when in the uk we had women history week and when you look into there examples they where mostly make up but here sabaton gave us at last three will deserving women that have been forgotten by history and should be remembered keep up the hard work

[@EthanDarke]

Who are the three you're referring to? Obviously one we have the lady of the dark, two I'm guessing you're referring to the night witches

[@andrewhowell1344]

@@EthanDarke honestly I make a mistake in the number of sabaton songs about women but my point stands

[@EthanDarke]

@andrewhowell1344 oh your point absolutely stands, I was just wondering if there was another I didn't know about cause i certainly can't claim to know 100% of their songs

[@andrewhowell1344]

@@EthanDarke neither can I though I respect them for teaching history

[@lurkingedge]

Ooph. You are my twelve year old self. You aren't wrong about having a backup weapon. You just lack the experiential references to understand that it doesn't matter. She didn't change the battle because she carried the standard, and the men fallowed it. She shifted the battle because the men followed her. Morale is a difficult thing to understand without experience.

[@najroe]

yeah, seeing someone DO something can break a locked situation and start an avalanche of other actions. also those medals are HUGE! achievements, we are talking highest honors given to soldiers. She was awarded the French Légion d’Honneur (Legion of Honour) twice, as well as the Russian Cross of St. George, the British medal of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael, and the Serbian Miloš Obilić medal. She was the sole female recipient of the French Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 with the gold palm attribute for service in World War I.

[@phildicks4721]

Yeah, she would have least been an NCO, so she would have had a pistol with her. But yes, Morale is one of the factors that people tend to overlook. Sometimes, if both sides are equal, its the factor that determines the winner...which side has the better Morale. In this case, the Serbians were fighting to defend their land against invaders.

[@tenchraven]

Frags are just little bombs. She was known for her preference for grenades- you throw them at night, no one knows where it came from. "Bomber" is a lost in translation moment for English speakers.

[@williamthehuntsman]

Many people see the rules of warfare as something to come about after WW1. But the truth is that rules of warfare stretched as far back as the early bronze Era. During the expansionist Era, flag bearers were protected by international law as they were technically considered non-combatants. If they drew their sidearm, it was fair game though. After WW1 and the expansionist Era came to a close, the position of flag bearer became obsolete and only served as an honor guard or color guard position. Thus, the law protecting flag bearers has become obsolete. However, the law is still in effect. Like humanitarian workers (red cross and the like), Flag bearers are not to be targeted and attacked on the battlefield. You just don't see them because they are only in a nation's capital parading their flag around to bolster morale and support. In short, to attack the flag bearer is a war crime. It has happened, but most times it was on accident, or the bearer had drawn their weapon.

[@averageshotgunenjoyer4051]

christmast truce next plssss

[@Dene181]

Noo the Sabaton rabbithole took another victim and I will have to watch all the reactions. 👀🤷‍♂

[@stephenpearson1786]

This is my favourite song well top 3 other one being night witches also the young lady drawn is floor Jansen lead singer of night wish whom is marred to the drummer from sabaton

[@Ycekhold]

I knew she looked familiar.

[@stephenpearson1786]

@@Ycekhold yeah I was surprised when I found out

[@alexadamson9959]

B I S M A R C K !!!!!!!

[@Sr.Tortillas]

would you react to Sabaton Bismark next?

[@bernardtuinenburg8746]

If you are interested in the story behind the songs I suggest you have a look at the Sabaton History Channel

[@CarloDaveBautista]

Do Bismarck next please

[@shadowangel3995]

In my opinion, the disservice that human society has done to females who have stepped up and filled in to help their country and then get shunned/ forgotten by history after the fact is a horrible thing.

[@RayHardman7567]

Watch Bismarck by saboton.

[@pontiacfan76]

Makes you wonder how she was able to keep her true gender secret as long as she did. Or how many suspected that their officier wasnt what they seemed to be.

[@Zubarus]

she realy need a better mic

[@TheGelatinousSnake]

o7

[@LoveEricsson]

You can say she puled a mulan 😉 really interesting story 😊