Early commemorative thread about this glorious battle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shipka_Pass
>The Battle of Shipka Pass consisted of four battles that were fought between the Russian Empire, aided by Bulgarian volunteers known as Opalchentsi, and the Ottoman Empire for control over the vital Shipka Pass during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). The crucial moment came in August 1877, when a group of 5,000 Bulgarian and 2,500 Russian troops repulsed an attack against the peak by a nearly 40,000 strong Ottoman army.
>Russian General Stoletov placed his 7,500 defenders (5,500 Bulgarians, 2,000 Russians) on three positions at St. Nicholas
>Suleiman Pasha gathered 38,000 Ottomans and was determined to retake the pass instead of simply bypassing it. After days of heavy bombardment the Ottomans attacked. On August 23, the Ottoman forces attacked all Russian positions with the main effort again at St. Nicholas where most of the defenders were Bulgarian volunteers. The Ottoman forces thought that the volunteer positions would be easy to capture, but this turned out to be their greatest mistake. On the 26th, an Ottoman attack on St. Nicholas ( a position referred to as "the Eagle's Nest") reached the Russian trenches but was repulsed again by a Bulgarian bayonet charge.
>The Russians and Bulgarians had made a gallant stand. Near the end having run out of ammunition, they threw rocks and bodies of fallen comrades to repulse the Ottoman attacks.
>One of the poems dedicated to the battle says "when ammunition was depleted someone yelled "Get the bodies!", the t*rks had never seen living and dead fight alongside each other"
What does /pol/ think of this?
The roaches got btfo.
>>80739923
Can you imagine being there? What chaos, blood, stench, gore, mud, fumes, noise, death, etc.
I can't. I get chills.
>>80739505
I like the Russian Empire flag more than the white-blue-red one for some reason.
>36,000 captured Turkroaches
kek
>>80740594
Many Russians like it more as well.
>>80740594
Russia now has the most boring flag in all of its history, even the st. Andrew's would be a huge improvement
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A video from an old Russian movie about the battle. You can see the brown roaches crawling up and the valiant defenders wrecking them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msnAVx0cpn8
>>80741597
:^)
Oh Shipka!
For three days out youthful battalions
The pass have defended. The high mountain valleys
Re-echo the battle's tumultuous roar.
The onslaught's ferocious! Again the dense hordes
Along the ravine for the twelfth time are crawling
Where warm blood is flowing and bodies are sprawling.
Assault on assault! Swarm on swarm they advance!
Once more at the towering peak Suleiman
is pointing: "Rush forward! Up there are the rayahs!"
Away race the hordes in a rage wild and dire,
A thunderous "Allah" re-echoes afar.
The summit replies with a rousing "Hurrah!",
A hail of fresh bullets and tree trunks and boulders;
Spattered with blood, our battalions boldly
Retaliate, every man in his own way
Striving to be in the front of the fray,
Each, like a hero, death bravely defying,
Determined to leave one more enemy dying.
Cannon are pounding. The Turks with a cry
Rush up the slope where they tumble and die;
Coming like tigers, like sheep they go flying,
Then come once again: the Bulgarians fighting
Like lions are running along the redoubt,
Neither heat, thirst nor toil are they worried about.
The onslaught is fierce, the rebuff no less stout.
For three days they fight but no help is arriving,
And no hope is visible on the horizon,
And no brother eagles come swiftly with aid.
No matter. They'll die, but die true, unafraid -
As died the brave Spartans who stood against Xerxes.
Fresh waves of assailants the cliffs now climb.
Our men have no bullets, with bravery girded,
Their bayonets broken, their breasts ever sturdy,
They're all to a man ready gladly to die
On the ridge which the whole of the world can descry,
>>80742947
To die here like heroes triumphant, victorious .
"The whole of Bulgaria watches, supports us,
The peak is a high one: if we run away,
She'll see us – so better to die here today!"
No weapons are left! What remains is the slaughter!
Each stone is a bomb and each tree-trunk a sword is.
Each object – a blow, and each soul – flame that sears.
From the peak every tree, every stone disappears.
"Grab hold of the bodies!" they hear a voice crying,
At once through the air lifeless corpses are flying,
And over the hordes like black devils they dive
And tumble and roll as if they were alive!
The Turks quake and tremble, not having seen ever
The living and dead fight a battle together,
And raise a shrill cry of demoniac rage.
In life and death combat the armies engage.
Our heroes, there standing as steady as boulders,
Meet bayonet steel with steel breasts no less boldly,
And sing as they cast themselves into the fray
When they realize Death shall now snatch them away.
But still our young heroes rebuff, sink and swallow
The hordes that is wave upon wave swiftly follow.
The peak any minute shall ours be no more.
Then suddenly Radetzky arrives with a roar.
And today, every time there's a storm in the mountain,
The summit recall this grim day and, recounting
The story, its echoing glory relays
From valley to valley, from age unto age!
>A thunderous "Allah" re-echoes afar.
>The summit replies with a rousing "Hurrah!",
That gets me every time.
>>80743113
Fycking hell man. Epic shit.
>disgusting roaches
>>80739505
Shit man this thread is sad as fuck
Just a lonely bulgarian circle jerking
>>80740207
Yeah, the turkroaches would probably smell pretty bad, alright.
>>80746063
I guess not many people care. What can you do.
>>80747775
I care, thanks for the history lessons
>>80748570
Awesome, it was worth it.
It must be spread around that t*rks are inherently cowards and would always run away and/or give up when strife hits. They would never fight if the sides were switched, 5k t8rks vs 50k Russians for example. That's inconceivable.
The roaches win through shere zerg tactics. Throw away endless hordes against the enemy and overwhelm him with bodies.
>>80747775
Don't feel bad about it tho
It's nice to see that some people are still passionate about the military successes of their nation
>>80741351
>Russia now has the most boring flag in all of its history,
Funny that you say that, because Peter the Great literally stoly your flag changing the order of the stripes.
>>80749549
I wish we could have won this one. Things would have been different now.
>>80749876
How do you feel about the battle of Shipka? id you know about it?
>>80739505
Russians and Bulgarians fight against Roaches, Roach army consists of slavic Slaveswarriors.
was it really a victory?
>>80750055
Nah those were not janissaries. That practice was ended by then.
Those were t*rks.
>>80750017
I know about the war in general, and I heard about this battle, but not much. I suppose most people know about the war from Boris Akunin's novel "Turkish Gambit", though it's mostly about siege of Plevna.
>>80751616
>siege of Plevna
That shit was glorious
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>>80752041
>siege of Plevna
>surrender roache
>>80753983
Well it was a pretty hard siege as far as I remember.
>>80755669
Russo-Turkish war best day of my life. I wish I was there, historians say the happiness of the people was palpable.
>>80739505
All russo-turkish wars is pure comedy gold
Pic-related: it's the actual battleplan of naval engagement in which turks lost their entire fleet to the 4 russian troll boats loaded with gunpowder kegs which their crews parked next to turkish ships, ignited and swimmed away laughing.
>>80756305
Then this happened
>>80756305
Eh? The battle plan was to get blown onto the shore? What the fuck did they expect was going to happen?
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>>80756606
kek
gif related
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İnşallah Islam will rise again from its ashes.
>>80759258
Islam will never again rule the Balkans. We know your true face. The world knows no such hate as Bulgaria/Serbia/Greece/Romania share towards you.
