A finnish infantry general Adolf Ehrnroot visited england in 1970. A british general asked him about soviet troops in finland. Ehrnroot told him that there is about 200 thousand of them. Then the british general wanted know where they were stationed. Ehrnroot replied:”Six feet deep all along the border.”
@Pyllynalle FIN Rajan venäläisellä puolella kyllä puhutaan. Käy vaikka Viipurissa. Ja joka Lidlissä etelä- ja pohjois-Karjalan alueella on vaikka kuin monta venäläistä "meidän" puolella.
Yeah different sources have different numbers. The reason to this is because so insanely many soldiers on the Soviet side were reported as ”missing”. Although for propaganda reasons the Soviets didn’t tell the real losses to their own people(to not look as bad). There were instances where tens of thousands died on a battlefield, only for the Soviets to retrieve a few thousand bodies to bring back home and say that that was all who perished in the fight for the Soviet side (thus there are so many ”missing”). Also, a fun fact. Finland retrieved every possible perished soldier from the battlefield, so that they could be buried in their respective home towns. This was done as a sign to thank the soldiers who died serving the country.
that is one of the strategies the finnis used, when they saw the russians go over a frozen lake they bombarded it so that they fell into a lake and died there, an entire batallion was never found
also, Simo Häyhä(the white death) had about 550 confirmed kills, the 250 he was talking about was in one attack from the russians where he stopped the entire army alone.. the russians thought they were fighting against an army But finns are smart and they made up like a hundred strategies to stop the russians, they didn´t do these strategies one by one but a number of them at once on many fronts.. it is something I use myself when playing multiplayer games online, it catches the enemy off guard and all of a sudden they don´t know whats happening :)
@@Furestone ye it was one batallion in that battle, but the entire army halted cuz they thought they were fighting another batallion cuz ppl died right and left but it was just this one guy.. the rest of the finns right then stayed waiting for reinforcements so he took in on himself to protect them all and went t to war against the entire sovjet army alone to win time for his country But I also forgot to add that the numbers of kills and such differs very much depending on which countrys historybooks u read, there is a tremendous meaning during psychological wars to make u look a bit better to give ur troops a higher morale, whichever state it is, they never give u the truth, they tell u what u need to know to the best job, whatever it is and if u look in a russian history book or a brittish one all of the starting and ending days differ, it is cuz it differs on the perspective.. there is no right or wrong, just a need for us to learn to understand eachother better :)
Nobody cares in Russia about their soldier lifes, so it doesn't matter at all, that Simo killed about 500 soldiers. The aim was to conquer the Finland or at least to move Soviet border away from Leningrad.
There are really no official numbers given from russian side so the actual casualties will be unknown for now at least. Nowadays it's generally accepted that the amount of the dead goes around 160k, maybe climbing upwards to 200k. These are not the last casualties between the Finns and Soviets asjust over a year after Winter War there was the Continuation war which saw additional 60 thousand dead for the Finns and 200 to 300 thousand soviets. If wounded and missing were to added to a total during these wars Soviets lost over a million men fighting the Finns. The name Molotov Coctail has a funny story to it, quoted from the wikipedia: "The name was an insulting reference to Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. The pact with Nazi Germany was widely mocked by the Finns, as was much of the propaganda Molotov produced to accompany the pact, including his declaration on Soviet state radio that bombing missions over Finland were actually airborne humanitarian food deliveries for their starving neighbours. The Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts. When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with the food"."
300K?)) or 600K?)) or 1 mLn? omg Soviet losses Monument to the fallen in the Soviet-Finnish war (St. Petersburg, near the Military medical Academy) The first official figures of Soviet losses in the war were published at the session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 26, 1940: 48 475 dead and 158 863 wounded, sick and frostbitten[138]. According to the reports from the troops on 15.03.1940: wounded, sick, frostbitten-248 090; killed and died in the stages of sanitary evacuation-65 384; died in hospitals-15 921; missing - 14 043; total irretrievable losses-95 348[139].
Now you guys HAVE to do a reaction of Simo Häyhä. Check out a video made by 'Simple History'. It's quite accurate and the finnish name pronunciations is quite good too. Btw, they found Häyhäs diary last year and he had written that he killed over 500 enemy soldiers.
What you need to understand is that the place that is Finland today was a part of Sweden from the mid-13th century right up until the beginning of the 19th century. Most people there considered themselves to be Swedish, Finnish language was seen as a primitive peasant's language. Then a highly incompetent Swedish king (Gustav Adolph the 4th, a mediocre brain and a religious fanatic) managed to get on the wrong side of both Napoleon and the Tsar, and Sweden lost those lands. When the Russian troops landed in Sweden proper some 50 miles from Stockholm, the Swedish nobility and the generals staged a coup, the king was deposed, Sweden sued for peace. Finland became an autonomous princedom within the Russian Empire, which sparked an identity crisis. People said "we're not Swedes anymore and we don't want to become Russian, so let's be Finns". Then the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic was discovered and compiled and Finnish national identity was born (many other things also contributed to it, but I don't want to write a treatise in Finnish history here). People who never spoke Finnish before sent their kids to Finnish language schools. Independence movements grew ever stronger and after many internal and external conflicts on December the 6th 1917, right after the Russians plunged into Communism Finnish independence was declared. So you can see that from their point of view the Russians thought that they might have some sort of claim over those lands.
Old video and too tired to read the comments, but Finland never surrendered. We made a costly peace, but a totally different thing than surrendering. Thanks for good video though ;)
Soviets and later Russians have lied about the number of fallen soldiers. After the world war 2 Finnish officer told to soviet that they could come get their fallen red army fellas but they answered that only xx number of soldiers have died during the war. The amount that they told was very much less that the real death count. So because of that Finnish recruits had to burry thousands of soviets at the border between Finland and Russian.
Soviet losses Monument to the fallen in the Soviet-Finnish war (St. Petersburg, near the Military medical Academy) The first official figures of Soviet losses in the war were published at the session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 26, 1940: 48 475 dead and 158 863 wounded, sick and frostbitten[138]. According to the reports from the troops on 15.03.1940: wounded, sick, frostbitten-248 090; killed and died in the stages of sanitary evacuation-65 384; died in hospitals-15 921; missing - 14 043; total irretrievable losses-95 348[139].
The war ended the 13:th of March, not in February. The incident where the russians stops to eat the finnish food is called the sausage war. The russians stopped fighting and started to eat the finnish food and when they were eating, the finns just shoot them down. My grandfather was fighting in that place when this incident happened. It was at the lake of Tolvajärvi.
One of my favorite sayings ever came out of this war. The Finns would often talk about the soviets, "There are so many of them and our country is so small. Where will we find room to bury them all?" Simo Hayha has something like a 505 confirmed sniper kills, making him the deadliest sniper of any conflict ever. But what gets overshadowed is that he would also come down from his sniping position to mow down soviets with a sub-machine gun. His total confirmed kill count is somewhere above 830. By the way, his sniper kills were all done without a scope, because he knew that the sun reflecting off his scope would give him away. The Soviets became so annoyed with him that in the last weeks of the war they stopped sending regular troops after him and just started shelling his general position with artillery. Which didn't work. Later on, a soviet sniper finally got him and blew out his jaw with an exploding shell. Simo Hayha actually survived that and lived until 2002 when he died in his late 90's. YOU DON'T F**KING MESS WITH VIKINGS...EVER!
Finnish dark humor: Soviet Propaganda and Molotov started claiming that their bombers didn't throw bombs on Helsinki, but packages with food. So the Finns started to call the bombs thrown on them "Molotov's baskets for pick-nick" and they returned the favor by throwing "Molotov *cocktails* " at Russian tanks.
Molotov cocktails weren't gasoline bombs and didn't burn off the armor of the tanks like the video suggests. They were bottles of plain old alcohol that were lit on fire with a rug and thrown in to the air ventilation of the tank to burn the tank crew alive inside the tank.
Yeah idk where the f they got that information from. The whole video was full of missinformation and i am angered by the amount of lies in it. (Well maybe not lies but certainly not solid information)
Actually they were made by Alko and had benzin, diesel and tar. Later Nobel prized chemist A.I. Virtanen made better version with sulfur and other chemicals. It was lighted from two huge match-like rods. Tanks were not water proof so burning chemicals got their ways inside, also burned engine.
@@jonel5001 You can even google it an it will tell you that they mostly contained alcohol or benzine. Alcohol was more used though due to easier accessibility during the winter war.
Very good, but Finland did not surrender to Russia. There was truce, ceasefire and at the same time peace with hard conditions for Finland 13.3.1940. Finland stayed independent. There was truce between Finland and Russia till Continuation War (25.6.1941-19.9.1944). After that Finland had to force Germany away from Finland with guns. Finland stayed independent 🇫🇮🇪🇺
Great video, its nice to see how people react about this untold history of WW2. BUT, You should know that overall the goal of Soviet union was to invide the whole Finland (not just 11%), so in the end of the game they never reached that target. Of course Finland lost that war but the most important outcome was that Finland after fighting three months against all the odds survived and kept its independency and sovereignty.
захар рыбник Without that war the whole of Finland most propably would have fallen in to Soviet hands, just like the case with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Anyways why speculate? The time has come and gone. We here are proud of our history as it is. You there are proud of yours. All good right?
@@gibbon8827 To secure Leningrad from finn? . Finland's pupulation that time 3,5 million and Soviet's likely 160 million. Omg. Have you heard of Molotov-ribbentrop pact?
@@blackcoffeebeans6100 dude, if the Soviet Union had at least 2 billion people, if Finland attacked unexpectedly, Leningrad would be destroyed, the army simply would not have had time. I also think Stalin understood that there would be a war with Germany and Finland could attack, catching the Soviet Union by surprise. and by the way, even though the Finns had a population of 3 million, they had an army of 200k people
Because Finland is such a small country, practically every Finn today is a child or grandchild or great-grandchild of a Winter War soldier. My own grandfathers were also involved in the winter war. About 2,000 of these Winter War veterans are also still alive. So this is pretty hard subject for us finns, even today.
There are still signs of this war in Finland even today. In other respects than as stories of veterans and civilians. For example, when I go to my cottage in eastern Finland, there are still armored barriers erected on the side of the road as a memorial. Apparently not all were ever collected. And this is just one example. So we still remember who lives next door to us. That's why all our men still go to the army. So that we would be ready.
i dont care whether you know history or not, i dont expect you guys to know everything. i just love the fact that you reacted to this and learned atleast something.
Different numbers might be because you might have been looking at either continuation war or combined WW2 numbers (there was two different wars within WW2, "winter war" and "continuation war").
The brown uniform is actually made of artificial wool and cotton which kept the Russian soldier warm unlike the German uniform which was designed for warmer climates, German soldiers had huge casualties from frostbite and dysentery. It was estimated that more Germans died from the cold than enemy action.
@Rifleman sure, continue to convince yourself that. In fact also convince yourself that you are loved by the world and yourselfs, and that's why you have 0 crime and terrorrism there....damn blind american patriotism....
The West is the best, and America is the jewel of the West. Luckily you have the opportunity to leave your third world shithole and come here so long as you do it legally 🇺🇸
I heard that kruschev confided in (somebody) that more like a million russians died. This is such an interesting bit of ww2 history. Sad though. The Russians ought to give Finland their property back.
there is only estimations of how many soviets were actually killed, "most" accurated estimations are based on mannerheims estimations of how many divisions were annihilated & how many soviets finns buried the next spring. Soviets did not keep much count of theyr casualties and those records that were taken were released ~1991 ?
And yeah as you guys probably know this guy are wrong in alot of occasions on this clip. He doesn't sound Finnish either, wiki is right. This clip not, and don't forget the Jatkosota (continuation war)
Different numbers are only because winter war is part of Finlands WW2 not the whole after that came continuation war where the rest number come into play.
You should check out Potential History's video about the Winter war named "The Winter War: The War That Became A Meme". Lot's of details that weren't covered in this video despite being about the same length with some good lighthearted jokes and memes.
Wrong numbers. Poor video. Much more casualtes in real life. My both Grandfathers fought in that war. And also two other wars. Finns used to be soldiers.
Почему финны всегда говорят о зимней войне 1939 года, но не любят вспоминать войну продолжение? Где они были пособниками фашистов и Гитлера? почему они не вспоминают как в 1944 году их оккупационную армию просто смели за пару месяцев, почему они не любят вспоминать как предали своих немецких союзников, стреляя им в спины в 1944? Радуйтесь, что Сталин не дошел до Хельсинки весной 1939 и 1944 года, сил бы хватило у русских войск наступить Маннергейму на горло...
Because they did not get that much out of the Winter war In my opinion also reputation-wise their reputation suffered badly during and after the winter war and it was although soviet victory but some people consider it a loss
Mercb3ast they did win. But it was a bitter loss. I’m sure no general of any army would like 10 men lost per square mile. 26 000 deaths on one side and 226 000 on the other with 400 000 missing. We can safely assume that about half a million died. Now was it worth it? Definitely not. For 11% of the land just to get it back in the continuation war 3 years later? It was very bad. They won but they lost a lot more than they got if that makes sense. The reason some people calls it a loss is that the goal for the Soviet Union was to get all of Finland. Not 11%. Therefore, whenever someone has a plan to get it all and then they don’t get it all or they get very little they consider it a loss. I’m pretty sure Stalin himself considered it a loss.
If you want to change it up and react to something else, i suggest doing reactions on some fighters- like Ramon Dekkers, Georges St Pierre, Anderson Silva and so on. Just so you can mix it up a little.
First of all Stalin offered Finland the same territory to compensate the loss around Leningrad but Finns rejected losing more as a result of winter war and then far more after they allied with Germany and lost again. And how it did not make sense if these lands are now still a part of Russia??? And Stalin did not purged any experienced officers cause there were no such in the Red Army. The purge just replaced old arrogant and incompetent officers with the new ones - also incompetent but at least young and open-minded to modern war-fair. And finely dont watch these garbage "historical" videos and "documentaries" - they are full of misleading information.
Well, of course, the Finns are the most peaceful people on earth, and never attacked the USSR ... Just as peaceful as the USA ... Remember once and for all, a good person will never be in power, Any country will attack its neighbor if it is relative I am sure that there will be no consequences ...
Yeah, attacked in 1941. But after watchind this video, you should know why the Finns COUNTERattacked the USSR. Tip: 1939 Mainila, failed counterfeit attack (Finns didn't have such ammo), followed by the attack Stalin had planned. Just accept your country's (I bet) fault of the Winter War. It wasn't anyway your fault, you were not even born yet. It's not that the USSR was only a victim, though against Hitler she was.
A finnish infantry general Adolf Ehrnroot visited england in 1970. A british general asked him about soviet troops in finland. Ehrnroot told him that there is about 200 thousand of them. Then the british general wanted know where they were stationed. Ehrnroot replied:”Six feet deep all along the border.”
I send you greetings from Russian Karelia))
@Pyllynalle FIN Rajan venäläisellä puolella kyllä puhutaan. Käy vaikka Viipurissa. Ja joka Lidlissä etelä- ja pohjois-Karjalan alueella on vaikka kuin monta venäläistä "meidän" puolella.
Yeah different sources have different numbers. The reason to this is because so insanely many soldiers on the Soviet side were reported as ”missing”. Although for propaganda reasons the Soviets didn’t tell the real losses to their own people(to not look as bad). There were instances where tens of thousands died on a battlefield, only for the Soviets to retrieve a few thousand bodies to bring back home and say that that was all who perished in the fight for the Soviet side (thus there are so many ”missing”).
Also, a fun fact. Finland retrieved every possible perished soldier from the battlefield, so that they could be buried in their respective home towns. This was done as a sign to thank the soldiers who died serving the country.
It's more simple than that. The other vid they watched showed casualties. That's dead and wounded. This vid said killed
that is one of the strategies the finnis used, when they saw the russians go over a frozen lake they bombarded it so that they fell into a lake and died there, an entire batallion was never found
also, Simo Häyhä(the white death) had about 550 confirmed kills, the 250 he was talking about was in one attack from the russians where he stopped the entire army alone.. the russians thought they were fighting against an army
But finns are smart and they made up like a hundred strategies to stop the russians, they didn´t do these strategies one by one but a number of them at once on many fronts.. it is something I use myself when playing multiplayer games online, it catches the enemy off guard and all of a sudden they don´t know whats happening :)
Finnish people are actually very smart.
Well I think youre talkin about batallion than army...
@@Furestone ye it was one batallion in that battle, but the entire army halted cuz they thought they were fighting another batallion cuz ppl died right and left but it was just this one guy.. the rest of the finns right then stayed waiting for reinforcements so he took in on himself to protect them all and went t to war against the entire sovjet army alone to win time for his country
But I also forgot to add that the numbers of kills and such differs very much depending on which countrys historybooks u read, there is a tremendous meaning during psychological wars to make u look a bit better to give ur troops a higher morale, whichever state it is, they never give u the truth, they tell u what u need to know to the best job, whatever it is and if u look in a russian history book or a brittish one all of the starting and ending days differ, it is cuz it differs on the perspective.. there is no right or wrong, just a need for us to learn to understand eachother better :)
He must have had an extremely good aim because, I dont think that Häyhä had More than those 250 bullets.
Nobody cares in Russia about their soldier lifes, so it doesn't matter at all, that Simo killed about 500 soldiers. The aim was to conquer the Finland or at least to move Soviet border away from Leningrad.
The Soviets had a saying, "Quantity has a quality all of it's own"
Russians have a saying . laughs the one who laughs last .The results of the 2 world known to all .
@@помниНеВсеТоСолнышкоЧтоВстает hell yeah baby. хД
There are really no official numbers given from russian side so the actual casualties will be unknown for now at least. Nowadays it's generally accepted that the amount of the dead goes around 160k, maybe climbing upwards to 200k. These are not the last casualties between the Finns and Soviets asjust over a year after Winter War there was the Continuation war which saw additional 60 thousand dead for the Finns and 200 to 300 thousand soviets. If wounded and missing were to added to a total during these wars Soviets lost over a million men fighting the Finns.
The name Molotov Coctail has a funny story to it, quoted from the wikipedia:
"The name was an insulting reference to Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. The pact with Nazi Germany was widely mocked by the Finns, as was much of the propaganda Molotov produced to accompany the pact, including his declaration on Soviet state radio that bombing missions over Finland were actually airborne humanitarian food deliveries for their starving neighbours. The Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts. When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with the food"."
source of information?
300K?)) or 600K?)) or 1 mLn? omg
Soviet losses
Monument to the fallen in the Soviet-Finnish war (St. Petersburg, near the Military medical Academy)
The first official figures of Soviet losses in the war were published at the session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 26, 1940: 48 475 dead and 158 863 wounded, sick and frostbitten[138].
According to the reports from the troops on 15.03.1940:
wounded, sick, frostbitten-248 090;
killed and died in the stages of sanitary evacuation-65 384;
died in hospitals-15 921;
missing - 14 043;
total irretrievable losses-95 348[139].
Now you guys HAVE to do a reaction of Simo Häyhä. Check out a video made by 'Simple History'. It's quite accurate and the finnish name pronunciations is quite good too. Btw, they found Häyhäs diary last year and he had written that he killed over 500 enemy soldiers.
I mean, was this even a reaction? Are they this shit at every video?
What you need to understand is that the place that is Finland today was a part of Sweden from the mid-13th century right up until the beginning of the 19th century. Most people there considered themselves to be Swedish, Finnish language was seen as a primitive peasant's language. Then a highly incompetent Swedish king (Gustav Adolph the 4th, a mediocre brain and a religious fanatic) managed to get on the wrong side of both Napoleon and the Tsar, and Sweden lost those lands. When the Russian troops landed in Sweden proper some 50 miles from Stockholm, the Swedish nobility and the generals staged a coup, the king was deposed, Sweden sued for peace. Finland became an autonomous princedom within the Russian Empire, which sparked an identity crisis. People said "we're not Swedes anymore and we don't want to become Russian, so let's be Finns". Then the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic was discovered and compiled and Finnish national identity was born (many other things also contributed to it, but I don't want to write a treatise in Finnish history here). People who never spoke Finnish before sent their kids to Finnish language schools. Independence movements grew ever stronger and after many internal and external conflicts on December the 6th 1917, right after the Russians plunged into Communism Finnish independence was declared. So you can see that from their point of view the Russians thought that they might have some sort of claim over those lands.
Old video and too tired to read the comments, but Finland never surrendered. We made a costly peace, but a totally different thing than surrendering. Thanks for good video though ;)
Soviets and later Russians have lied about the number of fallen soldiers. After the world war 2 Finnish officer told to soviet that they could come get their fallen red army fellas but they answered that only xx number of soldiers have died during the war. The amount that they told was very much less that the real death count. So because of that Finnish recruits had to burry thousands of soviets at the border between Finland and Russian.
source of information?
Soviet losses
Monument to the fallen in the Soviet-Finnish war (St. Petersburg, near the Military medical Academy)
The first official figures of Soviet losses in the war were published at the session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 26, 1940: 48 475 dead and 158 863 wounded, sick and frostbitten[138].
According to the reports from the troops on 15.03.1940:
wounded, sick, frostbitten-248 090;
killed and died in the stages of sanitary evacuation-65 384;
died in hospitals-15 921;
missing - 14 043;
total irretrievable losses-95 348[139].
the winter war was 1939-40 and the Continuation War was between 1941-1944. That´s why the numbers are different.
The war ended the 13:th of March, not in February. The incident where the russians stops to eat the finnish food is called the sausage war. The russians stopped fighting and started to eat the finnish food and when they were eating, the finns just shoot them down. My grandfather was fighting in that place when this incident happened. It was at the lake of Tolvajärvi.
One of my favorite sayings ever came out of this war. The Finns would often talk about the soviets, "There are so many of them and our country is so small. Where will we find room to bury them all?"
Simo Hayha has something like a 505 confirmed sniper kills, making him the deadliest sniper of any conflict ever. But what gets overshadowed is that he would also come down from his sniping position to mow down soviets with a sub-machine gun. His total confirmed kill count is somewhere above 830. By the way, his sniper kills were all done without a scope, because he knew that the sun reflecting off his scope would give him away. The Soviets became so annoyed with him that in the last weeks of the war they stopped sending regular troops after him and just started shelling his general position with artillery. Which didn't work. Later on, a soviet sniper finally got him and blew out his jaw with an exploding shell. Simo Hayha actually survived that and lived until 2002 when he died in his late 90's.
YOU DON'T F**KING MESS WITH VIKINGS...EVER!
Finnish dark humor:
Soviet Propaganda and Molotov started claiming that their bombers didn't throw bombs on Helsinki, but packages with food. So the Finns started to call the bombs thrown on them "Molotov's baskets for pick-nick" and they returned the favor by throwing "Molotov *cocktails* " at Russian tanks.
Molotov cocktails weren't gasoline bombs and didn't burn off the armor of the tanks like the video suggests. They were bottles of plain old alcohol that were lit on fire with a rug and thrown in to the air ventilation of the tank to burn the tank crew alive inside the tank.
Yeah idk where the f they got that information from. The whole video was full of missinformation and i am angered by the amount of lies in it. (Well maybe not lies but certainly not solid information)
Actually they were made by Alko and had benzin, diesel and tar. Later Nobel prized chemist A.I. Virtanen made better version with sulfur and other chemicals. It was lighted from two huge match-like rods. Tanks were not water proof so burning chemicals got their ways inside, also burned engine.
@@jonel5001 You can even google it an it will tell you that they mostly contained alcohol or benzine. Alcohol was more used though due to easier accessibility during the winter war.
Simo Häyhä actually had 505-542 kills during 3 months. That makes average of 6 kills every day... Think about that.
Very good, but Finland did not surrender to Russia. There was truce, ceasefire and at the same time peace with hard conditions for Finland 13.3.1940. Finland stayed independent. There was truce between Finland and Russia till Continuation War (25.6.1941-19.9.1944). After that Finland had to force Germany away from Finland with guns. Finland stayed independent 🇫🇮🇪🇺
Great video, its nice to see how people react about this untold history of WW2. BUT, You should know that overall the goal of Soviet union was to invide the whole Finland (not just 11%), so in the end of the game they never reached that target. Of course Finland lost that war but the most important outcome was that Finland after fighting three months against all the odds survived and kept its independency and sovereignty.
did you watch the video? the Soviet Union wanted to take 20 miles to secure Leningrad, so they took more than they hoped
захар рыбник Without that war the whole of Finland most propably would have fallen in to Soviet hands, just like the case with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Anyways why speculate? The time has come and gone. We here are proud of our history as it is. You there are proud of yours. All good right?
@@gibbon8827 To secure Leningrad from finn? .
Finland's pupulation that time 3,5 million and Soviet's likely 160 million.
Omg.
Have you heard of Molotov-ribbentrop pact?
@@blackcoffeebeans6100 dude, if the Soviet Union had at least 2 billion people, if Finland attacked unexpectedly, Leningrad would be destroyed, the army simply would not have had time. I also think Stalin understood that there would be a war with Germany and Finland could attack, catching the Soviet Union by surprise. and by the way, even though the Finns had a population of 3 million, they had an army of 200k people
Because Finland is such a small country, practically every Finn today is a child or grandchild or great-grandchild of a Winter War soldier. My own grandfathers were also involved in the winter war. About 2,000 of these Winter War veterans are also still alive. So this is pretty hard subject for us finns, even today.
There are still signs of this war in Finland even today. In other respects than as stories of veterans and civilians. For example, when I go to my cottage in eastern Finland, there are still armored barriers erected on the side of the road as a memorial. Apparently not all were ever collected. And this is just one example. So we still remember who lives next door to us. That's why all our men still go to the army. So that we would be ready.
Molotv coctail is Finnish. It comes from Molotov-Ribbentropp treaty.
i dont care whether you know history or not, i dont expect you guys to know everything. i just love the fact that you reacted to this and learned atleast something.
Broblem in spring was those dead soviets who was not numbered in casualties...smell and flys etc...and possibility of disease...
Different numbers might be because you might have been looking at either continuation war or combined WW2 numbers (there was two different wars within WW2, "winter war" and "continuation war").
The brown uniform is actually made of artificial wool and cotton which kept the Russian soldier warm unlike the German uniform which was designed for warmer climates, German soldiers had huge casualties from frostbite and dysentery. It was estimated that more Germans died from the cold than enemy action.
7:10 what other country does that sound like.....just some food for thought.
@Rifleman sure, continue to convince yourself that. In fact also convince yourself that you are loved by the world and yourselfs, and that's why you have 0 crime and terrorrism there....damn blind american patriotism....
The West is the best, and America is the jewel of the West. Luckily you have the opportunity to leave your third world shithole and come here so long as you do it legally 🇺🇸
I heard that kruschev confided in (somebody) that more like a million russians died. This is such an interesting bit of ww2 history. Sad though. The Russians ought to give Finland their property back.
PERKELE! Thank you for reacting to this. Pohjanpojat first. Ryssät last.
If someone was afraid to shoot and kill another human they were told that, If you are afraid to take a life dont think that the enemy is a human.
5:31 actually more than 500
there is only estimations of how many soviets were actually killed, "most" accurated estimations are based on mannerheims estimations of how many divisions were annihilated & how many soviets finns buried the next spring.
Soviets did not keep much count of theyr casualties and those records that were taken were released ~1991 ?
And yeah as you guys probably know this guy are wrong in alot of occasions on this clip. He doesn't sound Finnish either, wiki is right. This clip not, and don't forget the Jatkosota (continuation war)
Different numbers are only because winter war is part of Finlands WW2 not the whole after that came continuation war where the rest number come into play.
yeah...welcome to finland
You should check out Potential History's video about the Winter war named "The Winter War: The War That Became A Meme". Lot's of details that weren't covered in this video despite being about the same length with some good lighthearted jokes and memes.
Wrong numbers. Poor video. Much more casualtes in real life. My both Grandfathers fought in that war. And also two other wars. Finns used to be soldiers.
Those numbers are right, becose this video is all about winter war. Continuation war of course increased those numbers quite alot.
@@leppair No. Numbers are wrong.
Почему финны всегда говорят о зимней войне 1939 года, но не любят вспоминать войну продолжение? Где они были пособниками фашистов и Гитлера? почему они не вспоминают как в 1944 году их оккупационную армию просто смели за пару месяцев, почему они не любят вспоминать как предали своих немецких союзников, стреляя им в спины в 1944? Радуйтесь, что Сталин не дошел до Хельсинки весной 1939 и 1944 года, сил бы хватило у русских войск наступить Маннергейму на горло...
Sweden also helped Finland with 8000 soldiers that volunteered.
20 000* also most of them saw no action.
And when when you western.... you aid USSR...
at 7.10 doesent that sound like America vs Vietnam?
5:33 Simo Häyhä Killed about 550 sovietunion soldiers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
551?) mb 551,5?)))
And why didn't the other Scandinavian countries help Finland?
Denmark sent 1000 Volunteers, Swedes Volunteered, Norweigans even volunteered. Hungarians even volunteered. Hell Diego even Volunteered.
Finland farmer teach soviet monster how to respect smallest countries
As a Finn I just love this dude
If some People think that it would be amazing To have been with him believe me, those hadnt faced war dont know how it is To be In there.
What is point of keeping that woman in there. She have no carisma or even any intrest at all...
Yeah the numbers were wrong in that video...
Why everyone says that the USSR lost in the winter war although in fact he won?!?! But big losses.
Because they did not get that much out of the Winter war In my opinion also reputation-wise their reputation suffered badly during and after the winter war and it was although soviet victory but some people consider it a loss
Mercb3ast they did win. But it was a bitter loss. I’m sure no general of any army would like 10 men lost per square mile. 26 000 deaths on one side and 226 000 on the other with 400 000 missing. We can safely assume that about half a million died. Now was it worth it? Definitely not. For 11% of the land just to get it back in the continuation war 3 years later? It was very bad. They won but they lost a lot more than they got if that makes sense. The reason some people calls it a loss is that the goal for the Soviet Union was to get all of Finland. Not 11%. Therefore, whenever someone has a plan to get it all and then they don’t get it all or they get very little they consider it a loss. I’m pretty sure Stalin himself considered it a loss.
Because Finland retained independence and freedom.
Simo hayha killed 505 konfirmed kills not 250
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Um technically simo hayha killd 505 soviets
That video is wrong that Finnish nice guy killed 500+ or something like that
Lots of finland related videos
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Finland attacked the USSR in 1941.
Also japan attacked the Usa in 1941
They should watch The Fallen of WW2. Really good mini documentary.
Those numbers are wrong
lot of forrests here to be missing........
Simo Hayha had 500 kills total
Some say 700, but 500confirmed :)
@@Vemppu_Lutku some say 1999 over... 400 - 550 ...
@@Gummy_Sarcasm_Provider all we know is that hes called the stig..
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Häyhä killed 600 soviets
Finland is strong
was strong) has not joined the AXIS and got in the ass)))
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Ussr not russia
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Badass finns !!
First of all Stalin offered Finland the same territory to compensate the loss around Leningrad but Finns rejected losing more as a result of winter war and then far more after they allied with Germany and lost again. And how it did not make sense if these lands are now still a part of Russia??? And Stalin did not purged any experienced officers cause there were no such in the Red Army. The purge just replaced old arrogant and incompetent officers with the new ones - also incompetent but at least young and open-minded to modern war-fair. And finely dont watch these garbage "historical" videos and "documentaries" - they are full of misleading information.
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Thats true I am from Finland
Much to lie to you in vain
Well, of course, the Finns are the most peaceful people on earth, and never attacked the USSR ... Just as peaceful as the USA ... Remember once and for all, a good person will never be in power, Any country will attack its neighbor if it is relative I am sure that there will be no consequences ...
just as peaceful as USA? what do you mean
@@ristusnotta1653 Do you know the meaning of the word, sarcasm?
Madi Djandildin didnt notice
You reap what you sow.
Yeah, attacked in 1941. But after watchind this video, you should know why the Finns COUNTERattacked the USSR.
Tip: 1939 Mainila, failed counterfeit attack (Finns didn't have such ammo), followed by the attack Stalin had planned.
Just accept your country's (I bet) fault of the Winter War. It wasn't anyway your fault, you were not even born yet.
It's not that the USSR was only a victim, though against Hitler she was.