EARLY: The Battle Sarikamish
The Ottoman Empire forces its way into WWI, marches an army up a mountain in the middle of winter to die, commits a genocide.
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Coming back to this episode after the Armenian Genocide series.
Ok, I'll be that guy and ask what's the intro music on this one? I'm very familiar with the tune but I don't recognize the language. It sounds very much like a national anthem. TIA!
Got it, it's "God Save the Tsar!" the anthem of the Russian Empire, 1833-1917
Oh good something to listen to while I fight the battle of the hangover.
Community Revolution In Progress... The Ottomans were the original CRIP gang.
I took one class in genocide studies as an undergrad. Simultaneously one of the most interesting and soul crushing classes I've ever taken and I'm a physicist.
Cadorna and Hotzendorf are listening to this fully erect.
Simple as
One of the most obscure yet significant battles of WW1