Attack of the Dead Men (Strange Stories)

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In 1915 the Osowiec Fortress on the Eastern Front would see a shocking event, of men reanimating from a gas attack that should have killed them..

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Narrator:

Chris Kane

Animation:
Daniel Turner

Artwork:
Daniel turner

Music Credit

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Further Reading;

«Dead Men Attack» (Osovets, 1915): Archive Sources Approach (European researcher. 2011. № 12 (15)

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[imnotvladimirputin]

"Coughing blood, and *pieces of Their lungs"*

oh god....

[ivanchenr-bivanchenkuany]

Osowiec then and again
Attack of the dead, hundred men
Facing the led once again
Hundred men, charge again, die again.

[Adino]

That is one of the most metal things I've ever heard.

[lilboyblue]

What scares me is that this ACTUALLY happened, I am unable to imagine seeing literal walking corpses screaming bloody murder coming at you with the intent to kill.

[theeguyyes]

Western front:
Gas kill you.
In tsarist Russia:
You kill gas.

[jahbama]

“You see Dimitri, if you have no lungs, you not breathe in poison gas”

[AevisPrime]

The last Russian soldier that was part of that charge died in 2003. RIP Alek Darsovich

[jeffreyhartwig]

In the mid nineties, I worked at an oil refinery in SoCal. We used Chlorine gas in some of the processes. I've gotten a whiff of the stuff and it hurts your sinuses, makes you have snotbals, very difficult to breathe and generally not capable to do anything. Hats off to these men for their fortitude against that gas.

[minh]

The snow: Speaks Finnish
The trees: Speaks Vietnamese
The corpses: Speaks Russian

[aleksyssubmaker]

In America there's a saying: "Do or die!"
In post-soviet countries there's a saying: "Die, but do!"

[lionheart]

russian officer "Ivan who ordered you to die?"

Ivan "Sorry sir" gets back up as a zombie

[CheddarCheese]

German soldier: **sneezes**
Dead Russian soldier: “Будь здоров”

[lesfa]

Soldier: I am
Commander: Death doesn't dismiss you, i do.
Soldier: Sigh... fine. *keeps shooting*

[Mr_Lance]

"Hans, the gas was lethal right?"
"Yep."
"Then why are there machine guns aiming towards us?"

[tuner]

German kid: sprays axe all over the boys locker room

Russian kid: charges with wet towel

[TrueDM]

"oh no I'm about to die from the gas"
"just respawn boris"
"sorry I forgot"

[Dukales]

How Americans says "Do or die"
How Russians says "Die but do"

[KabilKab]

Spitting out parts of their lungs thats really creepy

[ShadyAnchovy]

Hans: "your lung is off"
Ivan: "tis but a scratch"