The Woman Who Bought a Tank to Avenge Her Family #ww2 #history #tank #shorts

追加: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]A Russian woman lost her husband and son in World War II, then sold everything she owned and bought [music] a tank to fight in their place.

[00:00:09]This really happened.

[00:00:11]Her name was Maria Oktyabrskaya.

[00:00:14]After her family was killed by the Germans, she sold her house, her clothes, and her jewelry.

[00:00:21]She wrote a letter to Stalin himself.

[00:00:23]Please take my money and let me drive a tank to avenge them.

[00:00:28]He said yes. She trained as a tank driver and named her [music] tank Fighting Girlfriend.

[00:00:34]She drove it into combat in 1943.

[00:00:36]>> [music] >> She destroyed German machine gun nests by ramming straight through them.

[00:00:40]When her tank [music] was hit, she got out under fire to fix it herself. She did this twice. The third time, shrapnel hit her in the head.

[00:00:49]She died in the hospital. Subscribe [music] because grief turned this woman into a legend.

[00:00:54]Tell me in the comments, would you sell everything to fight for your family?