Teenage Sniper

00:00 - Female sniper Aliya Moldagulova
01:34 - Aliya is wounded, but keeps going
03:44 - Frontline and battle for Nasva
05:31 - Aliya stops German barrage
06:39 - The Motherland Calls
07:22 - Aliya’s final battle
08:04 - Tough childhood memories and death
During WWII, hundreds of thousands of women served in the Red Army, including Aliya Moldagulova, an 18-year-old sniper from Kazakhstan. On January 14, 1944, Aliya's bravery and sharpshooting skills came to the fore during a pivotal fight on the Eastern Front. Despite shrapnel injury and a damaged rifle, Aliya continued to eliminate enemy soldiers, even taking on front-line fighting, an unusual move for a sniper. The ultimate objective was to capture the strategically important Nasva railway station to cut off German supply lines.

In a desperate situation, Aliya rallied her fellow soldiers after their leader fell, spearheading the attack into enemy trenches and disabling an enemy machine gun post.

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[unfortunateselection]

I swear one of these days you are just going to make a full fledged tv show because of how incredible your animation is.

[msredfox]

The quality of your animations is quite possibly one of the best for war history on this platform, you truly outdo yourselves with each and every video

[armenstepanyan]

She is a national hero in Kazakhstan, every 9th may people are honouring her name. There was also a hero I wanna mentioned Manshuk Mametova - she was a machine gunner

[man]

Its amazing to see how far these animations have come. You can see every hair on the soldier's heads and every pore on their face, it's incredible, keep it up.

[LancelotChan]

All politics aside, I can totally respect and salute to such a heroine, having grew up in so much despair and still bravely leading a charge despite all odds. These stories gave me reason to struggle on, so that by the time I meet them, I don't looked too bad compare to all these heroes by giving up prematurely.

[graemestansfield]

A pure warrior and a hell of a fighter. Life cut to short in life.

[notoriginal]

I live in Almaty and near by my workplace is park where is her monument are.
Besides her, from Kazakhstan was known another soldier woman: Manshuk Mametova, she was a machine gunner at same age as Aliya Moldagulova. Some monuments pictures them together cus they shared similar way during the war: two young girls who was brave to go to was and sadly left their lives in battlefield.
Would be interesting to watch your video about her too.

[survivr]

Aliya, a young Soviet sniper motivating grown soldiers to fight and take the trench and stop them keeping the railroad is truly a great story from a war hero. She had a truly bad childhood, but remains a great soldier.

[stevemc]

The watercolor flashback and merger back to reality threw me for a loop. Very incredible story of the Kazakhstan sniper.

Also, this kinda proves that no matter how far war advances, it will always remain a slog of blood and dirt in trenches.

[AppleHistoryGuy]

I would love it if Yarnhub did a video on the Monchy 9 of Newfoundland. 9 men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment positioned at Monchy-le-Preux during the Battle of Arras in 1917 hid behind shrubbery and defended the town from a German force anywhere from 200 - 300 men strong for 11 hours to prevent a German break through. I think it is a very cool and very underrated battle that sounds like the plot of a movie.

[stevemaynards.g.t]

A great story of a brave girl that most of us never knew.
Thank you YARNHUB for a amazing animation.

[BLAHAJPRODUCTIONS]

You can really tell how amazingly well the quality has increased. I love watching these when I am ill they are really good.

[Balkan_Thunder]

i think this is one of the best story's i ever heard, the story, animations, sound and the music give me chills. (good job yarnhub, great story as always)

[BullittGT]

War is a terrible thing but it never ceases to amaze me how it brings out the best in people in a perverse way. She certainly died a heroes death and goes to show the bravery of man or woman in trying times.

[pogfrog]

I'm genuinely shocked at how much the animation has improved, it looks absolutely stunning! Amazing improvment and video

[jhypyro]

Man, i love the little detail of Simo Hayha’s face being used as a target practice. Great video as always, this one is probably the best one yet.

[amrindersingh]

Your channel has surpassed expectations in quality... The sheer emotions the videos stoke is commendable... Keep up the good work..

[Sharhan_]

Thank you. It's amazing story. I can't say, that I'm sensitive person ... But this story about Aliya ... Made me tear.

[MrAlex_Raven]

RT had an excellent series called "War Witness" and the testimony of this female sniper getting revenge for her spotter was fantastic; taking out 5 German soldiers that attempted to advance on her in the open.

[kurtlagon]

She really inspired to reference to a
legendary fin sniper called "The white death". aliya calls her "The soviet white witch"...