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Simo Häyhä woke up in a hospital the day war ended. The joke is that the Soviet Union wanted peace when they heard Simo woke up.
The joke is that the Finnish delegation wanted peace on March 6.
Uhh... no. Im from finland and i can say the war wasnt over häyhä said let me go back to fight but he cudunt and then russia had victory
@@thelordisholythelordisfair2633 In fact Russia lost the war but with the help of their allies the peace treaty was what it was. But in retrospective you can't deny Finland played their cards well.
@@dennislindqvist8443 they didnt really win. they managed to defend. when they later tried to counter attack in the continuation war they lost pretty harsh.
Actually it's not russian sniper who shoot häyhä's it's regular soldiers who use exploded ammo.
Simo Häyhä would never, never ever, NEVER call himself a legend. He was a silent and very humble person.
Most of us Finns never brag about killing. We tend to never talk about it. Even hunting, we don't brag about our kill.
there is another Finnish soldier worth mentioning, Lauri Törni "The Soldier who fought in 3 Armies". This guy is a legend.
Yeah, could you do video about it
Janne Mononen the Sabaton song about him is amazing.
He was an OFFICER in three armies. Finland - Germany - USA. Died in the Vietnam war. In the US he was called Larry Thorne.
He is well known to the US as well, I will totally check him out further
Dont forget Aarne Juutilainen, Viljam Pylkäs and Jorma Sarvanto
im just bothered that the narrator is speaking with russian accent even though he is speaking about the the finnish
victoreem2 yeah also making simo seem cocky and mispronouncing his name
Was coming to say the same. -.- Really annoying.
Same here, it is actually disrespectful even. Also Simo Häyhä was known to be a very humble man, so the narration is well off in that regard too.
I was about to comment that. It feels like they just threw in some foreign accent to make him sound more foreign, not thinking that the russian accent is propably the least appropriate accent for him. You know, because he was like fighting *agains* russians. Would have been a thousand times better had they just have the narrator speaking normally.
I could not watch more than five minutes because of that.
Just for clarity: the voice actor is saying things like "my legend" "my amazing this and that", Häyhä never spoke in that manner. He was humble to the extreme. He was sorry all that had to be done, not proud of doing it. It doesn't feel right to have his voice bragging like that.
Also the bit about him refusing to fight in the Continuation War (1941-44) is straight bs. He officially applied to join, but was turned down because of the severity of his injury. You can trust a Russian to get this wrong, I guess.
I'm looking forward to a future video about Thorne or the Finnish wars in general, btw. Your takes on this stuff are very much appreciated.
This is as you can here from the accent a russian video to boost their snipers morale. They don't care about the facts so much.
Finns only brag about how little they brag.
Spot on commenting
"finns only brag about how little they brag.
This.
Pretty sure there's a lonely island song on the topic " I'm so humble'
So it seems there are a few factual errors or things that need to be clarified:
-Simo preferred iron sights over a scope because they were more reliable and did not force him to raise his head as much
-Simo preferred shooting from the seated position
-The video doesn't explain that Simo was just as effective with a submachine gun
-He wanted to serve in the Continuation War but he was deemed no longer fit for service
-He used two mosin nagant variants, but primarily the 28-30.
You're correct on the Continuation War at least partially. He was also considered a national hero, which did affect that to my knowledge.
Contrary to the video, he wanted to serve his country again in the Continuation War.
and Simo didn't use scope because it would give him up, sun reflection from glass.
haven't heard that Simo would shoot while sitting.. :/ they more like dig into snow and let snow fall around him.
Ruski propaganda video 😂 there is a historically correct version in channel "Sabaton History" they also got video of Winter War itself and bunch of other stuff
Thank you for taking note of these. I think it's important to note that he did want to serve in the continuation war, which Finns saw as means to mainly gain taken land back.
Scopes fog up a lot in that weather. Therefore scopes are almost useless in very cold weathers. Also, Finland has very limited daylight hours during winter. Area where Simo was, has 5-6 hours of sunlight, then it is darkness for 17-18 hours. So the timeframe per day is very limited.
They once asked Simo about his actions in the war and he replied: "I did what I was asked to do as good as I could".
Suomalaasta sisua
perkele
”Tein mitä käskettiin” ei tein mitä pyydettiin
@@Gaiffari Minä jonkun aikaa mietin tuota käännöstä ja päädiyn tuohon versioon kun "told" minusta olisi englannin kielessä kuulostanut enempi pakottamiselta. En toki väitä, että tämä minun käännös olisi mikään paras, mutta yritin sillä lähinnä tuoda esille sitä vanhaa suomalaista asennetta jolla Simo minun oletuksen mukaan toimi.
And he was asked "what you feel when you shoot an enemy?" "a recoil."
No! NO NO NO! One of the few mistakes in this Simo Häyhä video you're watching is that he did not decide to stay away from rest of WW2, HE WAS DENIED FROM SERVICE! He tried to enlist to protect hes country, my beloved country I may now enjoy due to men like him, but our military refused to have him in service due to the severity of hes Winter War injuries.
And this is the TRUTH.
PERKELE!
TÄMÄ!
And after continuation war his land belonged to Russians
@@jastly wut
@@jounazi8125 Yeap Soviet Union told to Finland they want karjala and other plants for peace after wars.
@@TeamVakio i know im fin. But he lived in part of Finland that soviets didnt get
It’s a pity that video is narrated with a Russian accent and mangles the pronunciation of “Häyhä”. Your content, on the other hand, is intelligent and appreciative as ever. Always a pleasure to watch.
To be honest, I didnt recognize the accent as easily. I haven't heard many Finnish accents in my defense. Now, I tried looking it up. Is it like how-ha?
@@CombatArmsChannel The ä is pronounced like the "ai" sound in "air"; you could think of it as "hey hair" without the R. :-)
@@awmperry whoa I must've sounded way off then haha
@@CombatArmsChannel It's a famously tricky language to learn - we Swedes have an advantage in having the same vowel sounds. It's a bit of a quirk; in other languages å ä and ö would be just A and O with diacritics. In Swedish and Finnish they're three additional letters in their own right. It keeps life interesting. ;-)
@@awmperry haha ah ok. I'll ask someone next time
My father went to winter war at the age of 18. Also he took part for the those two other wars in Karelia and in Lapland. He did not want to tell me nothing about those things but I saw how many times he had so bad nightmares about those times. I am so humble what he did and his fellow veterans has done to our country. I also have served my country in active duty over 30 years and I never forget what our veterans have done for us.
My grandfather was 17 when he went into the continuation war and the few times he spoke about it, he got visibly upset with tears in his eyes. One story he told me really stuck with me. He was sitting out on watch and heard a noise and saw this boy, my grandfather said he couldn’t have been more than 14-years-old. The boy looked terrified when he noticed my grandfather had seen him. Even though my grandfather knew the boy was a Russian scout, he couldn’t bring himself to kill him so he waved at him to get out of there. A while later my grandfather was thanked with a bullet flying by his head. It’s so easy to forget that all those casualties in the war were real people, people who had families and friends. Some too young to even be in a war but forced out there on the front lines by circumstances beyond their control. The people in those wars, on the front lines, never forgot though. They never forgot having to kill someone in self defence or watching their friends get killed. They never forgot the screams and horrors they witnessed. I believe this is why many chose to never or rarely speak of the wars, it was just too painful.
Suomen Laivasto kiittää.
American's scared when the jungle starts speaking vietnamese, Russian's when the snow starts speaking finnish.
And anybody (with a brain) when anything starts speaking a mixture of Nepalese and English (Gurkhas). Even more scary than the SAS cos there's hundreds of em.
Russians when the heat and caves speak Afghan
Russians? Russians conquered Finland in 1809. Soviets could not conquer Finland.
@@user-dc2hs9lt2m Finland was not a contry back then, russia and sweden fought for the land many times and the area of Finland was swedes and russians back and forth until Finland became intebendent in 1917. And yea u could say soviets.
Germany didn’t conquer moscow because of russian winter. Russia didn’t conquer Finland because of winter. That tells something of Finnish moral. Resisting a huge russian military tells how much we didn’t want to be russians back then.
Careful now, you're gonna get sucked down the finland rabbit hole if you delve into these matters too deep. Next thing you know you're sitting in a hole sawn into a frozen lake, 100 miles from the closest settlement, wishing it could get colder.
Drinking raw kossu
perkele
...And wondering if US have a base in the Arctic where I could hunt enemy's submarines, butt naked, armed only with my trusty stethoscope and puukko-knive.
Simo Häyhä did certainly NOT refuse to fight in the Continuation War 1941-44.What kind of nonsense is that??? He tried to go to the front many times,but was denied every time.In the Continuation War 1941-44 Finland tried to liberate the 12% of their country,that the Soviet Union took from them 1939-40.
Ahh dang, ok I will have to look into that further!
Proud Finn here. Awesome content.
Yeah
Cheers 👍
@Tomi Koponen why is the narrator speaking russian accent
I am finn too Suomi Perkele
@@sondersonics7534 en minä tiedä
I met him 1996 on a Veteran's Day meeting and he's the most impressive/humble 5'2" - 5'3" man I've ever met--mostly because he is ... humble. He was also quite 'embarrassed' of all the adoration, as to him it was just doing what you are told and doing it as good as you can (very Finnish mentality). Most people forget that he continued his hunter career as a hunting dog trainer for decades.
His company commander Aarne Juutilainen served in french foreign legion for five years and from that he got nickname The Terror of Morocco. And his brother Ilmari Juutilainen was the top flying ace of Finnish Air Force with 94 aerial combat victories. You should check them out, greetings from Finland!
That also makes Ilmari Juutilainen the top non-German flying ace of all time. The name "ilmari" happens to be short version of "Ilmarinen" which is the name of the old Finnish pagan god of sky and weather
I once watched an interview of Illu Juutilainen, he did a lot of "hunting" alone above enemy lines and got many unofficial kills. According to him his real kill count was 120 downed Russian planes vs official account of 94.
I knew I recognized that family name!!!!.... Eino was Fokker, Brewster and Gustav ace and never lost a wingman.
Totally amazing! I have a couple of friends from over there, one still living there and another a 2nd-generation American of Finnish ancestry. Anyone who can not only survive but thrive in the harsh conditions of that beautiful nation of yours, totally rocks! It is almost as if one in every five of you is a quiet, unassuming super-hero. Much respect from South Dakota.
@@bretwhitmore8855 Most of modern western peoples cant do absolutely anything when its -35C.
My grandmother's father was fighting at the front line in the Finnish winter war. He got a fragment from a grenade in his lung, but survived
Badass
Wow, my grandpa was helping out too, albeit swedish, he figured what the f, sin ce swedes messed with russia back when they had the tsars, cheapshot on em, during their harsh moments, typical swedish tactics :S anyway, real glad your grandmothers father survived! Hope he got to live a long life like most finns do .) /Chris
I did not ask
16 shots in a minute on target is alot more impressive when you consider that the Nagant is a bolt-action rifle, and only holds 5 ammo in a clip.
So that includes 3 reloads and pulls of a bolt :)
Thank you for this nice video! Hello from Finland 🇫🇮
Simo Häyhä is the real Terminator!
My father met the man, and he can confirm all of this, including his shortness, which did play to his advantage. The man didn't speak much, which is rather common here.
He is always brought up in military circles, which is funny to me though not his purpose, but I guess legends never die.
I wish I could shoot half as good as he did.
Unfortunately some of the stuff in this video is wrong. He wasn't hit by a sniper, but regular infantry. Also, Simo did want to join the continuation war, but he wasn't let to.
Typical Finn always thinks twice before he says nothing 🤔🤔🤐
@@ristovirtanen6396 I found Finns to be quite talkative, it just takes a couple of bottles of strong alcohol and a sauna.
This video irks me because Simo never bragged about his accomplishments, wasn't some 6 ft tall macho marine, and he didn't have a Russian accent.
Well because of unique Finnish language and quick put together vid's this is what we get nowaday's. Hey if they get the name spelled right it is a win! Mother born on Minnesota farm(1913), had to learn english . And oh boy she was a good shot!
Fun fact, when an interviewer asked Simo about did he felt about killing russian, and he just said: "I only did what I was told to do, as well as I could."
18 years and 4 days ago, he passed away. It was reported few years ago that he received a lot of death threats in his post-war days.
His diary was also found few years ago.
Devyx that’s retarded, that is a stupid as killing John Wicks dog, you’re going to have a bad time.
I would like to point out that shooting 16 rounds per minute doesnt sound all that impressive now, but it was done with a bolt action rifle that held 5 bullet clips, he needed to reload a new clip 3 times in that 1 minute and take his eyes off the sight after every shot.
That's marksmanship.
Right. There.
Out of curiosity, you know if that rifle had an internal magazine or an external?
Couldn't find the specifics on the exact build of his rifle.
@@gauloiseguy fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/M/28
The Russian accent in the narration is more than a just bit bothering in the clip for obvious reasons. Häyhä was actually not wounded in a snipers position. He was wounded during a cuonter offensive while working as a submachine gunner as he used to do. It has been said by Häyhäs companys men, that he had "at least as many kills with his m/31 Suomi submachinegun as he did with his rifle". So he was not only talented as a sniper, but also as a infantryman.
There is also one mistake in the video. Häyhä wanted to participate in the continuation war, but could not do so because of the severity of his wounds. He had a big part of his jawbone exploded to pieces.
One guy i recommend getting more info is Häyhä's CO Aarne Juutilainen. He was kicked out from the Finnish cadet school because of drinking. He wanted to be a professional soldier in Finland so he joined the French Foreign Legion for 5 years to get a job in Finland without graduating from the cadet school. He got his nickname Marokon Kauhu ("Terror of Morocco) from his service years in the Legion. He was a CO, who was always willing to stand up and defend his men in front of his superiors. He was seen as a father of the company for many of his men. That made him unpopular with his superiors and combined with his drinking habits prevented him from getting a permanent job in the Defence Forces. I don't know if there is anything in English about him, but he is worth to at least read about.
I was going to comment all these same points 😂
I wish I could find a good video explaining his submachine gun campaigns. It's a joke in the US to give submachine guns to short people, but that's exactly what the Soviets didnt want in that case haha
@@CombatArmsChannel Don't think there are any videos on that subject. There is not that much material about that and i think all of it is in Finnish. There are some interviews from Häyhä, Juutilainen and men who served in his company and then there are the company diaries in war archives at Helsinki. Like you noted, he was a humble man, who did no want to boast with the things he had done at war.
You are somewhat right. He was a controversial person many disliked because he was, to out it a bit mildly, a colourful person. He still had the support of most of the men. Different sources put him in a different perspective.
How many hours did it take to write all of this?
The story about Häyhä getting wounded by a enemy sniper is exacly that... a story. He was actually wounded in Kollaa, March 6th. 1940 during a soviet counter attack. After a failed attempt to overrun and capture the soviet positions around the lake "Ulismaa" Finns started to retreat in a deep snow and Häyhä was giving cover and retreating when he could move. He was retreating when he started to get shots landing next to him. Häyhä turned around to shoot back, only to realise, that he was staring right in to the barrel of the enemy rifle. The shooter was just a unknown soviet grunt, that propably never got to know, that he had just shot a most feared and wanted finnish soldier. Whenever I come a cross this story of a "epic sniper duel" I try to cut the wings out of it, bacause it's just a miss information and the reality is just a bit duller.
Yep, and he was using Suomi-smg when he wounded. He killed many russians with that gun too during the war.
@@nonoo Actually no. He was using his rifle, because he was also on overwatch while finns tried to overrun the soviet positions and when the soviet counter attack begin he did't have it. However Häyhä did some 200+ kills with the "Suomi" KP39.
@@somebodysdog you mean SuomiKP/31
@@juliushakala5148 Yes. My bad. Thank you for the correction. =)
What are you talking about that's not dull that's way more interesting because that sniper vs sniper theory sounds like some clishee movie thing while this one right here sounds like some brave lion heart shit what could be real -(as we know wars are always full of heroes- -and also winners re-write the history)- but only like 1/100 000 in world had guts to do it
i recommend: lauri törni (larry thorn) a soldier who fought in three armies. he got german iron cross, american legion of merit medal and finnish mannerheim cross.
@Fuck russia in ass meni sepostus vähä vituilleen. korjasin :D
@Fuck russia in ass The Mannerheim cross was and still is the highest award you could get in Finnish defence force. They haven't introduced any higher awards and Mannerheim cross could only be given for bravery and achievements in Continuation war, reason why Siml never got it.
Great video. My both grandfathers were part of the winter war, one was defending with a light machinegun and the second one was a guerrilla soldier. I was born too late to meet neither of them but i still have the upmost respect for both of them. My grandfather operating the LMG was KIA and his body was never retrieved. My other Grandfather who was working as a Guerrilla soldier came back home but my grandmother burned all of his diaries from the time he was at war after he passed away. I would have liked to see what he had written but offcourse it was my grandmothers choice to erase that footage. I still have a knife my ancestors made in the frontline with aluminium salvaged from a crashed airplane. Great video, cheers from Finland!
He didn't refuse to join the continuation war. He volunteered for it but was refused because of his injuries.
You said Häyhä pretty well. Odd to hear the narrator to speak with Russian accent - it's not like the Finnish accent (you can listen to Hydraulic Press Channel for that). So it's like the enemy accent saying --- they attacked my home country: kind of could confuse who attacked :)
Häyhä didn't go to the guard towers - he'd be an outstanding target. - silhouette. This video said he was lying down: documents about him specially mentioned he did lie down - but would be squatting. Which I also believe being true. Would explain more of the digging, and how he would not get cold lying there. No matter how used to the cold you are, I would say you can¨'t lie on the snowy ground for hours. Squatting he would have close to minimal ground contact, extra snow cover is even a bit warming, being a wind protection, if you're clothes are not very warm and melt the snow. So snow cover staright out of your warm base is not a good idea.
The animations were very good besides the Tower. Well, his rifle looked more like from the modern sniper collection with the wrappings and length. I remember him carrying his rifle shoulder up, it was just in its regular colours, in winter conditions. behind a snow bank Simo wouldn't need it to be white. The photos I've seen didn't make the rifle that visible, nor protruding. It was behind the visual cover.
I am from finland, glad you brought this up. He is a national hero here. everybody knows him in whole country! Nice that you make this his tribute.. Sorry if my english is bad but i
appreciate you to do that.. From Finland: Jyrki Niskanen
Very happy to speak with you Jyrki. No apologies necessary since your English is excellent. It is our abilities with your Finnish language that is terrible! Many apologies for that! I have a great deal of respect for Finns and Finland and would very much like to visit there someday. Simo is a great example of a self-disciplined man and a solid patriot for his homeland. Those of us old military veterans who have been marksmen for many years greatly admire Simo's courage, skills, and humility. He was a man among men, and the free people of the world are stronger for his having lived and served.
@@bretwhitmore8855 Damn right, thanks for this.
"The Russian officer progressed along the road in the Winter War, when a shout was heard from behind the ridge: One Finn soldier is same as ten Russian soldiers! The enraged commander ordered his ten soldiers to attack over the ridge to stop shouting. There were a few shots, and then silence.
One Finn soldier is same as a hundred Russian soldiers! there was a new shout. The commander immediately sent a hundred men to attack, and now there was a loud shooting and a bang from behind the ridge for a while, but again it became quiet.
One Finn is same as a thousand of Russians soldiers! was the next bark off behind the ridge. Now a furious Russian officer sent a thousand men up the hill, and behind the ridge a real war broke out: cannons, machine guns, and grenades sang.
After a long rumble, there was another silence, broken by a lone, dragging-back Russian soldier: Don't go guys, it's a trap! There are two of them."
This is one of my favorite jokes.
@@emilwrentner4584 in real life most of soviet casualties was from minefield.
And that about soldier vs soldier, read about Anatolii Grigorevich Kaida, soviet driver, he defend 1 vs 60 finnish soldier and kill 20 of them.
Also he was promoted from Corporal to Second Liutenant by Mannerheim, there's never been such a promotion in Finland.
Underrated channel and video
Simo is a legend!
Nothing but respect for you doing this video. You are spot on.
Greetings from Finland 🙂🇫🇮!!..
impressed that a younger man you are interested in the Second World War, My Dad lived in Kemi, northern Filnland during the war
Thank you for these interesting analyses of past military events and heroes. Keep'em coming :)
We finns want to see your react with the U.S Major Larry Thorne. Former capten of the Finnish army and the waffen SS. He is the one and only SS Officer who is buried in the Arlington Virginia.
Is he the guy that died in vietnam?
CheeseDude23 Yollman That’s true dude he died during wietnam war. He and crew disappear on the classified mission in Laos. Helicopter crashed side of the mountain.
his body was never found.
@@mannihilator Finally Hes body was found in Laos in 1999.
On the side note: "Corporal" is "Korpraali" in Finnish... Not "upsilius upsuliplipli" as the narrator of that video is saying. I don't know what language that is.
The Finnish equivalent of "Corporal" is "Alikersantti" (Under-Sergeant or Junior-Sergeant). It's the lowest NCO rank in the Finnish Defence Forces.
Korpraali is more equivalent to Private/Private First Class.
Corporal equals Alikersantti (usually a squad leader) - it's a common mistake to translate Corporal to Korpraali. Korpraali would equal private 1st class.
I think the rank narrator tried to say was upseerioppilas which is equal to alikersantti. (I don't know if Häyhä was ever upseerioppilas. I think not.) However the ranks between countries are not 1:1 compareable
Korpraali is actually "Lance Corporal".
@@akitervo80 Yep
He's rifle were hes civil guard rifle which he acquired and owned by himself.
Whats more interesting is that some of the sniper rifles Finnis Defence forces still use, are modernized versions of those old mosins which may contain parts from 19th century. I have shot that kind of rifle in my own military service in 2011.
Finland is badass coutry!
Thanks for video! Appreciated
his commander was also a legend.
Simo Häyhä deserves a Hollywood movie.
He deserves a movie for sure, but saying he deserves a Hollywood movie is just cruel...
@@frankishempire2322 Yeah, true words. Sorry about the Hollywood part.
Thanks for sharing awsome video and i have heard about him a couple of years ago.
Well analysed with the emphasis to his deeper motivational factors. Those are the ones which will last and ultimately carry us all to the achievements we want to.
You might know, but there was 3rd war in Finland after Continuation War, as Soviets as a part of peace conditions demanded Finland fight German troops off Lapland. Other terms of peace with Soviets also caused the fact that Finland had to use mostly young and inexperienced soldiers in The Lapland War.
Before 1939, there were two more Soviet-Finnish wars. In these wars, Finland attacked the weak Soviet Union after the civil war and took part of its territories. Amazing! Why did the USSR suddenly dislike Finland and think that it would fight on the side of Germany against it? And the land that he took in 1940 and 1944 considered his own. Why should I?
"No-one can make an 800 yard bead sight shot."
Simo, "Hold my vodka..."
You mean. Hold my Koskenkorva.
@@timbackman5915 niillä ei kyllä talvisodassa ollu koskenkorvaa vaan venäläisestä kuormasta otettua vodkaa
Thank you for great video.
Great video! Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮!
Great grandpa fought in the Winter War. I’m 50% Finnish. And I actually have some medals that my past family embers have deserved by war. One medal from ww1 and one from ww2 and then one from the winter war. I don’t remember what sort of medals they were but I know that the winter war one he got during the war because he participated in it. But sadly he got taken by the Russians only days before the end and some days later they found him dead. My grandpa was born just by the beginning of the winter war in November. Just wanted to share som interesting stories😌
It is a very disappointing thing to think that the Winter War is not as well known as it ought to be. Finns were at the forefront of defeating the Soviets at their own evil games from very early on. All freedom-loving people of the world should look to this history as a lesson-plan on how such a thing should be done. Don't mess with Finns. Russia might be the 'bear', but Finns are some of the finest 'bear hunters' the world has ever known!!!
"I can't even imagine being asked to go out on a mission to do counter-sniper stuff against him." The story goes that once he killed a bunch of those counter-snipers, the Russians started shelling areas they *thought* he was in with artillery.
Thanks for nice video. Simo denied to use scope because then he has to rise his head more high from his position and so reveal himself. By using iron sights he may stay better in hide from enemies.
Simo said about his duty: "I did only what they commanded me to do and I tried to do that as well as I can."
Hope you are still okay brother. Great video as usual. Stay healthy and safe. 🇬🇧
As far as I know it took several years for Häyhä to recuperate from his wound and the Finnish military decided he was not healthy enough for take part in the Continuation War
It was a infantry man who shot him just to let you know it wasn’t a sniper but thanks for the vid mate
Ahh, thanks for the clarification
@@CombatArmsChannel And that happend in normal combat situation, on open ground. Also Simo did use a Finnish 28-30 rifle not a Mosin nagant 1891 rifle.
well, isnt sure if it was sniper or granade shrapnel that took out part of hes cheeck. or just a ordinary soldier.
@@panza. I believe it was a exploding rifle bullet, shoot by infantry GI. It is documented in a book, Valkoinen kuXXXXa. If I remember correctly, Simo said so also. I have seen Simo´s interview from Finnish television.
@@panza. It has been confirmed by the damege to his skull and jaw had that it was a explosive bullet that entered his mouth trough his right cheek and then blew up inside his mouth. The bullet was shot by an infranty grunt. Those bullets were ment for aircraft machineguns and were outlawed by second Geneve convention but were widely used by soviet troops.
my half-brother
grandfather left the winter war at the age of 16 and became an officer at the age of 19 he was also a crazy man
Thats BS. Simo Häyhä become officer after the war on a rare, and I mean very rare, promotion. Nobody got promoted that fast.
Kaikki jotka lähtee vapaa ehtosesti sotaan on vähän hulluja. En tienny että Simo puhuu venäjän aksentilla...
Hi there! I am a new follower and I am amazed about all job you put out here AND eloge for all research and commenting the Winterwar and the aftermaths of it! My grandfather was only 18 yrs old, hadnt done the military even but were sent out in the aftermaths after getting his friend in pieces in his arms.. I wish I had possibility to ask him questions but we lost him in family when I was only 5 yrs old. My grandma divorced him two years before he fell victim of PTSD and alcohol with bad heart. And this was in Sweden as they moved here from finland for work so I am born Swedish. But slo my grandfather on my fathers side, is from Norway and he was in the hidden antinazigroups who blew up germans weaponshafts so he had to flee from Norway to Sweden so there my parents met🤗🙏🏻🌸
Simo, What a legend!
One thing in these Simo Häyhä viedos many times goes wrong and I mean how he got woonded.
Simo Häyhä didn´t woonded by russian sniper.
Simo woonded in situation when they fought in normal firefight when he went after russian soldier and enemy soldier shot him from distance about 20-30 meters.
Simo got explosive bullet to his jaws. I don´t understand why this disinformation always "(russian sniper shot him)" exist here and many other places in media.
Simo told this in few times when journalist interviewed him --> he woonded near situation firefight when he was after russian soldier.
wounded*
There are plenty of videos in here that talk about the winter war, definetly check them out.
But i wish the continuation war between 1941-1944 got bit more attention. During the last summer, the battle of Tali-ihantala took place, the biggest battle in nordic military history. 50 000 finnish troops against 150 000 soviest. It was the most decisive battle of all. Had we lost it, the roads would've been wide open to Helsinki. Of course it wasn't just finnish prowess, but also thanks to german stuka dive bomber unit kuhlmey, who did inmeasurable damage to the soviets behind the lines alonside with superior finnish artillery tactics.
Unit Kuhlmey also had fw 190 fighters.
@@villepore7013 i stand corrected, then.
Great reaction video man
yes,most people who have what it takes are humble,know you get the point...my grandfather lived war,stories i heard accidently when was kid like huh huh... just happy don-t have to experience those situations,hope.
"Ä" Is said like "rat" the A in rat when said is like the pronouncination of "Ä"
''Action'' is also said like ''äxön''
Clmri yes, assuming you’re speaking american english
Raet
Häyhä wounded in counter attack, not shot by another sniper.
Another of Finlands heros (had the honor of taking care of him for some time the last year of his life, such a kind and humble man)
It took almost sixty years before perhaps Finland's greatest war hero received his recognition. On Saturday, (Feb 2015) Allan Finholm, 92, the man who was responsible for one of the war's most remarkable feats, died.
If a man can be said to have saved Finland, it was Allan Finholm from Ostrobothnia.
That was the opinion of the legendary remote patrolman and cultural personality Harry Järv, Finholm's war comrade.
He performed his heroic feat during the great Russian attack on June 22, 1944, two days after the fall of Viborg. Allan, then a 22-year-old sub-sergeant, was already a veteran of the Svir Front. He and his comrades were the lock that would hold the Red Army bar at Stenbro Sound near Viborg. If the superior Soviet army had managed to get through, the road to Helsinki would have been open.
In the morning, the Russian artillery put in all its firepower, the sky was filled with low-flying fighter jets and the Russians managed to get up on the bridge. The noise was deafening when the hell machinery was deployed.
The Finnish-Swedish regiment JR 61's legendary commander Alpo Marttinen ordered a counterattack. Seventeen men, among them Finholm, attacked, but were repulsed.
- I have never been so scared, I was terrified and tried to zigzag, he said in the few interviews he gave on the subject.
Finholm did not notice that the comrades withdrew but was left alone with his submachine gun. Behind the bushes he managed to avoid being hit.
In front of him on the bridge support, he had 70-80 Russians who were going over. He began to remove them one by one, but did not dare to fire with serial fire at the risk of being discovered, but set himself on individual fire.
He managed to shoot at least sixty enemies and was able to report to his foreman Lieutenant Löfman a moment later.
-They are not here anymore!
That was the last the lieutenant heard. At the same moment, a grenade struck and killed Löfman and Finholm was seriously injured in one temple.
Finholm was a tight-lipped and unassuming man. We met once, in connection with the recordings of Åke Lindmans In Front of the Front Line. One of the characters was Finholm. When he instructed the actors in his low-key way about "how it was then", it became completely silent. His authority was undeniable.
He himself never made a fuss of his efforts. He had a hard time talking about the incident. Finholm was decorated as late as 2007 with the Freedom Cross of the third class and was invited to the Independence Prom.
He had been a obvious Knight of Mannerheim, but his efforts were forgotten, not least because so many of his foremen, who should have advocated him, fell.
Harry Järv's wife Barbro is said to have said: Those who say that the war betrays have not met Allan. It is difficult to imagine a kinder and more sympathetic, almost timid person.
- I was just an ordinary person, I did what I had to, he used to say.
Googletranslation
Article from: gamla.hbl.fi/feature/2015-01-06/703096/allan-finholm-raddade-finland
Randomly found this video, good stuff and yeah! Häyhä was pretty admirable person.
Btw, google translate gives surprisingly good example on how ”Simo Häyhä” is supposed to be pronounced. 😁
Here you go:
translate.google.com/?hl=fi#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=fi&text=simo%20h%C3%A4yh%C3%A4
that "joined the military" means mandatory military service though.
I am a simple guy from Finland, i see name Häyhä i click :-) Thank you. One thing wrong in that video was on the continium war part. Häyhä tried to get back to fight but he was denied due the wound in winter war. He was patriot didn't refuse.
26/5000
a very intelligent and skilled commentary
When asked from Häyhä how did he feel about killing humans he replied: "I killed enemies" Pretty savage :)
I defend Finland and shoot enemies if need be. Then again I got trained as a combat medic during my nine month service, so I'll also try to help any human who is in need of a medical assistance.
Nope, he actually said 'I felt the recoil.'
Killing people is nothing to celebrate, killing enemies instead of people makes it easier to cope with it
"I'm a man of peace." No, he wanted to participate in the continuation war, but he wasn't allowed. :)
Ihan oikeasti oli kyllä rauhan mies. Ja niin nöyrä, vilpitön.
Olisi halunnut vaan osallistua mukaan säilyttämään Suomen itsenäisyyttä, jelppaamaan jengiä rajalle.
Tolkun mies; oli mukava joskus jutella hänen kanssa. Levätköön rauhassa.
Every single shot on the target. Simo can't miss if he even wanted to do so.
Darn what an man, a legend.
My grandfather fought in this war, he we have lots of medals at home from his service in the war it's really cool!
Marine vocabulary:
Effective shooter=discipline
Prepared=disciplined
Skilled=disciplined
Camouflaged=disciplined
Still=disciplined
Disciplined=disciplined
Just joking, don't star eagleing around boys!
As a Finn I get almost embarrassed when Simo Häyhä is mentioned... it's a meme now so I think whole Simo thing needs to be on a hold for a while and let it cool down so it's a nice fact again. But nice comments though!
I could see that. The gimmicky videos of him being a straight savage dont help haha
There is a movie in the US about the continuing war in Finland. The war was Finland's attempt to recover lost land during the winter war. As far as I know, you can only buy the movie. It's called "Unknown Soldier".
01:58 - That face reminds me of the look on a team of US marines I was trading cigars with during a field ex in Northern Alberta when I was in the Canadian army reserves 20 years ago.
They were astonished it was snowing in the middle of summer and that it got down to 0oC (32F).
Now that I'm released, I like to practice precision rifle shooting in snow camo when it gets to -40oC (-40oF).
Winter Warfare training was always my favorite, and these days I like comparing Finnish tactics and fieldcraft during the Winter war with my Canadian army training.
Why does the video narrator speak in russian accent ;)?
"Simo Haha" 😂
Suomi perkele
Homo vittu
haha
Vittu kahvit lens perseestä 😂😂
Ei mut oikeesti hörähdin oikein kunnolla 😂😂👌
There was a Finnish Soldier decorated for "taking out" a Sovjet tank with a crowbar. Anoher one used a heavy log to "take out" the armor
I really respect you for respectin one of my own, awesome video! Rock n’ roll!
It was actually not a sniper that hit Simo Häyhä, he was chasing a enemy patrol with other Finnish soldiers and it came from a machine gun, it has been recorded in couple of different memoirs, his personal and other who server with him ( one of them, also legendary guy called Aarne Juutilainen also know as Marokon kauhu - Terror of Morocco ).
I could not find mainly good English articles. I heard he was able to still shoot the man after being shot, do you know if that's accurate?
@@CombatArmsChannel Sadly, no, it was a stray bullet that managed to hit him when they were chasing the enemy troops, Häyhä was using machine gun also which he sometimes did when not on a sniper mission, actually he had 200 kills with a machine gun too but he didn't count them in his "the list of sins" like he described the kill list.
he was retreating with his squad and turned back to shoot but realized he was looking down a barrel of a random soviet soldier. he got hit in the jaw with an exploding bullet fired from a svt 38 or a mosin rifle it is not 100% sure which one but simo says that it was a semi auto rifle
@@OhukaisMies_54 Do you have sources on that? Because i believe that the retreating happened AFTER the Häyhäs injury, they were chasing the enemy troops and at least according to memoirs of Juutilainen and Häyhäs personal memoir it was a stray bullet.
It also says that in Sotasankarit By R.Brantberb and Valkoinen Kuolema : talvisodan legendaarisen tarkka-ampujan Simo Häyhän tarina by Petri Sarjanen but most reliable source is Häyhäs personal memoir Sotamuistoja which was found 2017 where it says this:
"Itse haavoituin
Kollaalla räjähtävästä kiväärinkuulasta 7/3 metsässä ajaessani ryssiä takaa. Heräsin
jonkun minuutin kuluttua kun toverit käänsivät minut kädestä kyljelleni ja sitoivat
huutaen lääkintämiehet hakemaan"
@@radikaali itellä taitaa olla sama kirja ja nyt kun heitit ton lainauksen tohon niin joo oikeassa olet siitä et ne oli ajamassa niitä takaa, mulla tais mennä taistelun järjestys vaa sekasin.
mut joo kuiteskin, luoti lähti jonkun random ryssän kivääristä jota kohti häyhä katsoi juuri ennen ku sai siltä kudin leukaan
(häyhä itse sanoo että olin juuri nostamassa kivääriä kun huomasin tuijottavan suoraan pikakiväärin piippuun, sitten välähti ja kaaduin maahan, tajusin heti että nyt osui.)
pikakiväärihän määritykseltään talvisodan aikana olis vrm tarkottanu venäläistä kk:ta DP-28:a, mutta häyhä on myös ylen vanhassa dokkarissa joka katsottiin koulussa joskus hissan tunnilla sanonu että jalkaväki kivääri oli kyseessä. tästä päättelisin että ase jolla häyhää ammuttiin olisi kyseisten tietojen mukaan SVT 38.
What is it like to be involved in wars that don't directly influence your home country? What's the motivation?
Increased social status and getting to kill brown people for oil, if you're lucky you could even receive disability benefits for PTSD once you're back home
Good as usual! Two points about the video itself. What you describe as an awkward bolt action honestly wouldn't have been, I live in a similar climate in northern Canada, at -45 sitting in the cold all day you would be using your palm to operate it, possibly wearing a heavy glove in those days as all the wonderful lightweight stuff hadn't been made yet. Realistically given the conditions I would have rather used it then say the 303 Enfield of the era. Also having spent up to 14 hours in sub -40 weather outdoors myself not only is your body function reduced but your mind also slows down, to make those shots in those conditions (I'm sure a lot where done in much nicer conditions) is completely amazing.
Steady aim, cold blooded, slight of hand, last stand attached.
I didn't like the annoyingly dramatized original video and I think Simo Häyhä wouldn't have liked that either. I am a Finn my self and believe that at least our older generation would agree with me.
For civilians and people who dont know the history themself, it's easy for them to get hooked by some insane savage just slaying people in WWII. But I agree, it isnt respectful
My grandfather was from Finland❣️☺️
🇳🇴❤️🇫🇮
Potential history made an excellent video about winter war and just how absurd it was from the viewpoint of the time. Unfortunately someone has copyright striked it and can't be found atm. Hopefully that will get sorted out soon as it was one of the best short videos of the conflict.
Thank you
Great in depth analysis and reaction to a horrible video. Imagine there was an American hero veteran who served in Iraq and they made a video about him, but for some reason he'd speak with Iraqi accent in the video. That's the level of cringe this video sounds to Finnish. Why would you make a Finnish legend to speak with Russian accent and be so arrogant? Some inaccuracies also that are just plane stupid. He would have fought in WW2 against Russians, but Finnish army didn't let him because of he's wound. He was not shot by another sniper as he was serving in front line like other men when he fought in a "skirmish" as he understated the situation. In Finnish army there was no official sniper position at the time, but they'd still use the best shooters as a snipers for obvious reasons. Weapons were the same than for regular infantry men anyways.
Thanks to him and many others, Finland was never occupied in WW2 and remain democratic.
enceladus there were three European capitals in WWII that were not occupied by enemy forces. London, Moscow and Helsinki 🤔👌
@@ristovirtanen6396
Well, no one tried to occupy Finland.
Alexander Barkman have you ever heard of Josif Stalin and Winter War…?🙄
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
I would love a video about Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev...a damn fine sniper! tnx for great content!
Marines had a pick of many rifles and chose the model 70 30-06 heavy barrel in sporter stock, and later Remington offered their medium heavy barrel M40 custom shop rifle, still sporterized walnut vs other civilian custom shop 40XB rifles. Marines preffered bolt action civilian company procured snippinarms and it wasn't until geewaat that the semiauto became more popular for the role, though heavy longrange cal's still operate best in a boltaction. USMC and ARMY now gone to the Barret MRAD variant congrats to the forces and also to Barret for FINALLY getting this deserved contract! Many many many good AR10 type platforms as well for the role!
It's been said that Stalin ended the war because they got the intel that Simo has woken up.
By people who think the Fins won?
No satil didn't ended the war war end bc ryssät kaatu raatteentiellä matkalla suomussalmelle
4:11 Uppsilies uppsileth??? How does that make a Corporal?
Yeah, should have been upseeri oppilas..
@@Vemppu_Lutku But thait aint corporal either 😂 not even close
@@japekki666 sure isnt, i just wrote what he was trying to pronounce
Simo häyhä was born and raised In finland for normal family he had To be good at hunting and we have long history of that here In finland. He was humble and awesome. He allways just did all hi could.
Very good video, even if some details were left out. Such as how he had actual artillery strikes ordered against his positions. And to think that even an exploding round to the face didn't put him down? I don't think we'll ever really get a man like Häyhä again.