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Some history buff tell me more about this tho
Oh boy, that fella is Simo Häyhä. He’s Finnish and was nicknamed “The White Death” by the Soviet Union. Using basically a Finnish rip off of the Mosin Nagant and a lil sub machine gun he killed 505 men in the Winter War, which lasted just 100 days. He has the largest confirmed kills of any sniper ever. He was a fucking bad ass.
Do note that’s 505 confirmed men killed. The unconfirmed could be larger. You also forgot the other badass part, he took an incendiary round to the face, dragged his was 25KM back to base, and went into a coma., only waking on the last day of the war. The thing that is often said is that the Russians ended the war because he woke from his slumber.
And to add, he was a farmer with no military training who got back to farming after the war.
He used to dump water on the snow so the loose snow won’t fly with the gun kickback, and he stuffed his mouth with snow so his breath won’t be detected
The rifle this dude used didn’t have a scope unlike the ones Soviets had. This was because in the almost -40 degrees Celsius weather the scope could have frosted, the glint from the glass could have given him away, it took a bit longer to aim properly with it, it would have required him to raise his head higher which would have made him a bigger target and he just didn’t have the training to use a scoped rifle stolen from the enemy. He preferred to use a rifle he knew how to instead of learning to use a new one.
He lived up to be 96 years old and passed away in 2002.
Finns are to be feared.
you guys are aware that this dude was a literal fascist, right
like finland was allied with nazi germany in the winter war and finland had a far right pro fascist government
Yeah here’s another history buff with a better story. Him and his pals were supplied and reinforced by Nazi Germany and were a de facto member of the axis
I'm sick of explaining this. Simo Häyhä fought in the Winter War, which was between the Soviet Union and Finland. There were two Russo-Finnish wars that took place alongside ww2. They did not happen because Finland allied themselves with the Nazis. They happened because the Soviets decided to roll over the Finns to capture strategic territory and ports. The Soviets invaded Finland, a neutral sovereign country, because they thought the Finns wouldn’t fight back and because the rest of Europe wouldn't complain because they desperately needed a Soviet second front. This was all before the Soviets were even in the war. They still were selling oil and arms to the Nazis. You can not expect a neutral country to not defend themselves just because their invaders happened to gearing up to fight Nazis at some point.
During the Winter War, the Finns and the Nazis didn’t talk at all. During the second Russo-Finnish war (or the continuation war), the Finns had an informal non-aggression pact with the Nazis and purchased weapons from them.The Germans did slip notes to the Finnish government through backchannels letting them know that they were going to invade the soviet union, so the Finns launched a simultaneous campaign to retake the territory that they had seeded at the end of The Winter War. It doesn't look great but that is not the same thing as being a fascist. Regardless, we were in bed with fucking Stalin so it’s more than a little hypocritical to call the Finn’s Nazis for not wanting to be at war with two world-class superpowers at once.
The continuation war is academic anyway because Simo was shot in the fucking face a year prior. He didn’t fight in the Continuation War. He fought the Soviets who invaded his country while the Soviets had a formal treaty with Nazi Germany. History is fucking messy and far more so when you are sitting between two overwhelming expansionist states.
Ignorant morons being slammed is always fun
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:00:18
