~wistles~ Damn! Fear the Finns.
I swear I'm still staggered by this 30 minutes after I found it.
He became a successful moose hunter after the war. No s~*&.
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Yup, the Soviets used tanks in the worst possible environment - dense forests with scarce roads and -30 Celsius temperature. That and inexperienced officers who had no clue about armoured warfare resulted in a total disaster. Actually Finns captured so many Soviet tanks that they simply returned most of them because they had no use for them.
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He became a successful moose hunter after the war. No s#!&.
Are there any moose left in Finland?!
Also, hot damn, BotW did cover him(NSFW).
"After hearing about how much ass Häyhä was kicking out on the frozen tundra of eastern Finland with an antiquated bolt-action piece-of-s#++ rifle, the Finnish High Command decided to give him a special award: a custom-built Sako M2/28-30 Sniper Rifle of Headshots +3. He put this to good use, killing the ever-loving s+$! out of anyone that crossed him. On several occasions the Russians sent their own snipers to take him out, but Simo managed to win those duels every time. You see, Häyhä not only passed out long-range silent death to anyone with a red star on his hat, but he did it without the aid of a telescopic sight. He preferred to use the rifle's regular iron sights because it allowed him to present a smaller target, and because several of the commie snipers he moked out were given away by a glint of light reflecting off the lenses of their scopes. He obviously didn't want to fall to this fate, so he went balls-out and wasted a&~#!!%s the old-fashioned (and unarguably the more hardcore) way."
Yup, the Soviets used tanks in the worst possible environment - dense forests with scarce roads and -30 Celsius temperature. That and inexperienced officers who had no clue about armoured warfare resulted in a total disaster. Actually Finns captured so many Soviet tanks that they simply returned most of them because they had no use for them.
I'd think they would make great fence posts on the Soviet border... But I'm an a!~%!&& that way.
You guys read cracked.com? There was an article of 5 soldiers who put rambo to shame on it recently.
Some of them are ridiculous. Simo is on the list. The White Death.
I'm still wincing from the thought of how Yogendra Singh Yadav must have felt. Man...
Yeah, holy s%@@. Even puts O-Chul from OOTS to shame. Made of hit points.
This guy fought in this war.
Don't mess with the Finns, really.
Is that war "Finnish-ed"?
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And yet, after World War II, the Western nations pretty much pulled out of that sphere of influence. The Soviets didn't need to invade Finland; they just loomed over it. And with nobody on our side of the Cold War willing to back them up, the Finns capitulated to the Soviets on every major issue, "of their own volition" but really under immense indirect pressure.
It became a famous enough effect that it got its own name: "Finlandization".
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And yet, after World War II, the Western nations pretty much pulled out of that sphere of influence. The Soviets didn't need to invade Finland; they just loomed over it. And with nobody on our side of the Cold War willing to back them up, the Finns capitulated to the Soviets on every major issue, "of their own volition" but really under immense indirect pressure.
It became a famous enough effect that it got its own name: "Finlandization".
While Finland was under USSR's shadow after the war, they remained sovereign and independent, something WarPact countries were not so lucky with. If it wasn't for their performance during the Winter War and Continuation War they would surely share the fate of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia etc.
I heard that the Finns put his name in their dictionary, as the definition of Sisu.
Well in my dictionary the word sisu isn't even mentioned :)