No more war. Greetings from Finland.

Audio book is fantastic

1:06:41 Polikarpov 1 - 16 fighter. I didn't know that these "Ratas" had wing cannons...? Rather a pair of MG's forward the cockpit and two other in wing roots.

Mannerheim was a commanding chief in civil war 1918 too. His plague was, that he didn't have staff officers training and experience. He also had chosen very good military high rank officers to do the job. He chose well...

48:35 It is a Mandolin (italian invention).

45:12 Evacuees had done this already many times. From 13th century ryssä had attacked to Finland over 200 times. Get over it.

30:00 Soviet troops had not yed received orders to advance.

Locomotive was Tk3-class 2-8-0. It number (concealed) was 1150. From year 1947. It was in working order when filming. Tk3-class first engine was manufactured 1927.

Look at mr Hakala, half shave and clean face. Compare him in film's end.

Railway net was guite devekoped, but land roads are poor quality then.

Stalin dreamed to restore 1914 borders, when Finland was a Grand Duchy under Rusdian rule.

Attitude generally in 1939: Winter war were a Civil war part 2.

Finnish Ukko-Pekka rifle was advanced version of old Moshin-Nagant m/1891. Same ammo, however.

Two of the brothers left. They both wore Home Guard (Suojeluskunta) uniforms.

Gotta love the military thinking :D

we have 54 F-16s, and 64 F-35s on order

Hello my friend how are you? Please where can I find this movie?

I was 7 when I watched this. It was Kersti Alley but I remembered her eyes as blue. Then I remembered we had a black and white TV. Happy days with 2 channels

Please, mr Jay, how you have the knowledge to see essentials in Unknown Soldier? Are you been an professional soldier, officer maybe? You did good work. By the way, the author of Unknown soldier has written later a trilogy of Koskela's family. Story began when lieutenant Koskela's granddad made a little hut (torppa) and some acres of field in backwoods. Ol' Jussi Koskela was a day-worker for a church reverend. There were some problems in livings and earning in the little village in Finland. Other people got their voices: old baron and landowner, some richer country farms and poorest people too. And a wise and much read tailor Aadolf Halme, who later became worker union's leader (was executed after civil war 1918). This all, led to finnish civil war in 1918. It was worse bloodshed than Yugoslavia wars in the end of nineteen nineties. Reverend's wife, Ellen had almost nazi attitudes and opinions, and pastor's son Ilmari went to the Germany in winter 1915 to become a anti-bolshevik "Jägerbataillon" officer. Lieutenant Koskela's own father Akseli became socialist in local level and in 1918 war acted as company commander in Reds side. Ilmari, when came to Finland in winter 1918 fought in government troops, "Whites". Ilmari led the executions after the war 1918 and Akseli's both brothers got to pay Akseli's commanding role with their lives. After war 1918 Akseli was in lousy prison camp (Hennala, near Lahti city) and barely survived to be executed. He however came back to home... Trilogy continues: there were arguing between bourgeois' and socialists. Akseli was married in 1907, and his wife had several brothers, who was social-democrats also. There were some communists and right wing extremists: school teacher Rautajärvi and Home Guard activists too. Lapua movements deeds was mentioned too, when touching this village: "Pentinkulma". Trilogy ends, when Akseli dies to heart attack, Elina-wife gets a guest: her brother Janne who has been a mason worker and member of Finnish parliament too. I highly recommend this trilogy to be read: "Täällä Pohjantähden alla parts, 1. to 3. It is a classic in Finnish society. I don't know is it translated to english, but author gave a voice to reds, who fought in revolutionals side in 1918. First time... Author is an icon of Finnish literature: - Väinö Linna. (He self was a repairman in fabric-weaving factory in Tampere, when he began to write novels.) He once said, that Vanhala (your "fat man") was a picture of him in "Unknown". Also, Linna was a machine-gun soldier during the Continuation war. Pohjantähti was made to the two-part movie too: "Täällä Pohjantähden alla" (1968) and "Akseli ja Elina" (1970). Latest version is director Timo Koivusalo's "Täällä Pohjantähden alla", over some ten years ago. All three was available in DVD's. Thank you. I hope that my comment opens somehow that world, from where the youngsters came and went to war 1941.

The Standard german u-boat tactic was emerged attack at night (at least a the beginning of the war). The Kriegsmarine tried to attack the convoys with a "pack" of "grey wolfes" (u-boats). A boat attacked till it got detected and dive only to escape, when destroyers start hunting the Boat, the other "wolves" start their attack, so the destroyers were forced to stop the hunt and go after other boats. The real game changer was not the "ASDIC", it was the improved radar. So the destroyers could hunt the u-boats without visual contract. This allowed the destroyers to stay further away from the convoy. The boats was able to achieve 20 knots emerged, but only 7 knots submerged...for a short time. So the boats were not able to hunt the convoys submerged. Anyway, the periscope in the movie was detected by the radar. The captain thought the destroyers did not had detected him. Attacking the destroyer was not common, but a successfull attack would had weaken the convoy protection. The depth charges were ignited by the water pressure at a default depth. Later they used so call "hedgehogs", a carpet of small depth charges with mogneto.

damn can you do something about the sound quality?

The ending left me heartbroken, after all sadako's been abused all her life and she never got to experience peace. She was alive in the well for 30 years before she died. She tried climbing out numerous times but it only injured her when she fell, and also resulted in her fingernails being torn off. When she died is when Ringu 1 takes place as her restless evil spirit (or the evil side of sadako) wills the cursed tape into existence. To repay the world for all the cruelty done to her. Many people died from watching the cursed tape until someone realised if you copy the tape and someone else watches it you are safe. 1 month later Ringu 2 takes place as people discover sadako's dead body in the well and one of them people is ikuma, sadako's father. They then cremate her body. At this point the latest person to watch the tape destroys it resulting in their death but also forcing sadako's spirit to possess 2 people in which makes her more dangerous as she can use them to will the tape onto multiple screens at the same time without needing the tape. Doctors and policemen along with ikuma proceed with an experiment to free the 2 possessed people from sadako. (Kinda like the one ikuma did on her before, when she was alive and it made her act up) Well guess what sadako's evil spirit had the same reaction causing a storm and controlling the waves of water nearby to kill all the doctors and police. So the people were free of sadako but sadako was let loose and she could kill anyone now, not just someone who had seen the tape. As the waves and water drowned the doctors, sadako appeared in front of the leading doctor in the water and put her hands around his neck with freakish speed and pulls him underwater before killing him with a heart attack. Ikuma realises that he was the reason for sadako going on a rampage since he was the one who pushed her down the well after all and betrayed her. So he was overcome by guilt and walked into the water where sadako was. He was offering his life in order to make it all end and stop sadako from taking countless more lives. Sadako quickly kills him with a glare that sends his mind to turmoil and his body to failure. At last her corrupted soul had got the vengeance it was seeking, at last...she could rest in peace. (Hopefully at least because she needs to rest after the long life and paranormal life she's had, jeez) Anyway I wrote this for people to understand the story a bit better as people often say there are many things unanswered. So I tried explaining it the best I could with my knowledge. Your welcome 😉 (sorry if I got anything wrong, it's 4AM and I spent an hour and a half typing this. I'm exhausted XD)

Good, but anti tank/missile weapon. Andlearning your possition

I had the pleasure to visit the Bavaria Studios in Munich, where the 1:1 copy of the boat was on display. It was really, really claustrophobic, even without a crew in it.. My Grandfather's younger brother served on one of these boats in WW2 and never came back. First he was declared MIA, but as time passed, he was definitely KIA. I never got to know him, obviously. My Grandfather did his duty on the western front as a machine gunner. I watched this movie with him, and it hit hard. Brilliant piece of filmmaking. Thank you for covering this movie so extensively and in detail, with all the additionally information on your side.

Antti Tuuri, the author of this book , was born in October 1944, and so he has not been in the WW2. Väinö Linna was a soldier himself. So their personal experience was very different. BTW This movie has made more romantic than the first version of Tuntematon sotilas, I think.

Väinö Linna himself was the author of the book The Unknown War A soldier of the JR 8 infantry regiment wrote about these events, so the book and the film are true and perhaps the most realistic war film of all time, because it honestly admits Finland's military defeat in 1944, and does not idealize the war in any way. So it's a very anti-war film.

What you said is true for your colleagues, but when Finland in the summer of 1941 started to recapture the territories lost in the winter war of 1939-1940, the Finnish army unfortunately did not stop at the old border, but continued to attack eastern Karelia, in other words, quite deep into Russian territory, which was quite large strategically a mistake from the Finns. That mistake cost Finland a lot of lives and financial losses. About the war in Ukraine. I would first ask you to find out its background, i.e. the conflict in Ukraine started with the so-called color revolution organized by the Western globalists, and this was the start of the Ukrainian civil war, which lasted until 2022, when Russia intervened in the situation in Dompass, i.e. eastern Ukraine. About 14,000 people of Russian origin were killed in Eastern Ukraine/Dompass between 2014 and 2022, most of whom were civilians. So Ukrainian soldiers, some of whom were Nazis, killed them. In Odessa, the Ukrainian Nazis burned alive the so-called at least 43 civilians in the union house, one of them was a pregnant woman. The Western mainstream media has not told us anything about these events, but keeps silent and does not tell us the truth.

Great that the comments have been translated into Finnish

moro.. watch the original movie, SRE is an annual tradition in Finland that everyone always watches on Independence Day fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuntematon_sotilas 1955 !!!!!most of the cast had been in the war film 1955 Tuntematon Sotilas

Who's the dude I'll call master of the bleedn obvious ? ? ?.

A little tip for the future, if someone hasn't already said this, almost all videos of the Finnish Defense Forces nowadays also have English subtitles.Finland also has bomb shelters that cover civilians and population shelters, which take into account tourists who may be in the country, remember that there are more than 60,000 of these shelters in Finland and a total of almost four million people can be placed in them, some of the shelters are also resistant to a direct nuclear attack. Finland's air defense does not use Patriot systems, but has made deals with NASAMS and Israel last year for the David sling system. I am an anti-aircraft reservist myself, Russian armored vehicles usually have an automatic loader and the ammunition is placed in a circle in the turret, for this reason it is not worth firing them into the turret or at the junction of the turret and the frame.

You didn’t really discuss it but I feel like not only did Ray rough him up, but he called the police to pick him up afterwards as evidence by the flashing red & blue lights in bokeh at the end of the episode.

The scene when they are discovered and the captain does NOT dive and instead it calling for more speed is very often misunderstood. I, too, misunderstood it until I read about it from some people who were on Boats in that area. He is actually desperately trying to safe the life of the crew at this point. They are above a deeper part of the street of Gibraltar - the boat couldn`t survive sinking there at all. BUT: Northern Africca is spanish soil (spanish Morocco) and neutral! They try to either reach spanish territory where they could get internated and wait for the end of the war OR reach the more shallowy and sandy area closer to the african continent where there is at least a chance of surviving how they then do. In this scene, the captain makes the exact right decision which leads to the survival of the crew.

COuld you please for the love of god not pronounce "Das Boot" like you would pronounce a "oo" in english^^? Use the o in "god", that is WAY closer^^.

Sorry, but I think you don't have a completely correct picture of the war in Ukraine, but a false picture created by the propaganda of the Western media. Of course, there is war propaganda on both sides, but we are given a very one-sided narrative about the background and events of the war in Ukraine. For example, the Russians don't leave their wounded on the field on purpose. Of course, they have to leave due to circumstances sometimes. Why is it not told that the Ukrainians quite often shoot their own soldiers in the back who try to surrender to the Russians? The Ukrainians use Stralin's som methods quite a lot in this war. It's just the truth.

I don't understand why you are saying the author hated the scenes in the beginning. I'm just reading the book, and he wrote them exactly like that, including the disrespectful speech against Hitler.

I have learned to enjoy this movie as entertainment, but honestly it bothered me for a long time how badly it handled the historical context and the characters. The actual military operation was fascinating enough to be a good movie, they messed it up with all this excess drama. But it is still a good flick and visually well done. Also, not sure if you noticed already but the actor of Ville (the "boy soldier") is actually the same guy who plays Private Susi in the latest Unknown Soldier movie, which you've already watched. His name is Arttu Kapulainen.

Just found your videos so my comments are a "bit" delayed. I entered service in January 1999 and saw this video during the first week of basic training. I think it was shown during the "chaplain's lessons" which were actually very little about religion and more about the ethics, morals and psychology of war. I remember it did have an impact on me back then and kinda still does. Which brings us to the comparison of the two versions. And it might be just old geezer in me talking, but I think this older version hits the spot much better. The 2020 version is more like a showcase or recruitment video. FDF has really attracted more attention internationally with their video productions so the target audience is clearly much more non-Finns. That might also be the main reason to omit all the nationalistic stuff from the 2020 version. The biggest issue I had with the new one is exactly that showcase ideology. This one actually shows own casualties, mistakes, difficulty and brutality and doesn't look down on the "potential enemy for the Yellow nation to the East". The new one just says "look how cool we are". Few questions you had in both videos I'd like to offer my answers; 1) we don't get the service weapons to be stored at home. You are probably thinking about Switzerland. We've never had that possibility. All ammo, weapons and gear are stored by the FDF. And not going into details but they are very well dispersed. The mobilization system is very well planned to the smallest detail and people involved in it get trained regularly. There are some rapid response volunteer reserve units that store their personal non-lethal gear at home but everything that goes boom is stored by the FDF. It is basically a legal issue which can't be solved easily or fast. Finns have a lot of civilian guns already so it isn't about that. 2) coastal jaegers are basically marines. I think their beret color is actually the same as what the Royal Marines in UK use. 3) Doctrine issue. If I understood the Irish doctrine correctly, that is our plan B. And it actually has been the plan B since late 1930s. Plan A is to defend and repel the enemy and protect key objectives with everything we got. Plan B (full on guerilla warfare) is only implemented if the country is occupied. Actually in 1944, after the armistice was signed, there was a department of the Finnish army that prepared for guerilla war, hid weapons and munitions all over the country just in case the Soviets would break the armistice and take control of the country. It caused a major diplomatic incident when the information about the operation was leaked (probably by some Soviet-sympathetic civil officials) to the Soviet monitoring commission and they saw that as a breach to the armistice agreement. So, the government was forced to shut it down and prosecute the officers and officials involved in it. Which was an absolute mess. It is a long and fascinating story though, and part of the reason why there were so many Finnish officers in the US Army during 1950-70s, especially in the Special Forces and Rangers. But not going to go into it this time, this comment is long enough as is. The current doctrine is to delay and harass the enemy, control their movement, stop them from capturing key objectives and counter-attack to regain important positions. We have different units for different tasks, some are tasked to do local defense of key targets, some conduct sabotage and guerilla operations against enemy MSRs and C3I, some delay and funnel the enemy spearheads and some are focused on counter-attacks (mostly mechanized units with strong fire support assets). The main doctrine has been the same for decades but the methods have changed and now we have defined more clearly which unit does what and they are equipped accordingly. And obviously now that we are in NATO, the whole doctrine may be revisited and adjusted once again. As for fighting in the cities and towns, my understanding is that if there are still civilians in the area, focus is on evacuation and trying to defend outside the urban area. Urban warfare is very attritional and we don't really have the resources to do it long-term. The enemy won't win the war sitting in towns anyway. 4) coastal gun batteries are not in active use anymore, they are way too vulnerable in modern warfare. Some are still kept as museums, but they are not part of the war-time order of battle anymore. Coastal defense relies on mobile gun and missile batteries, missile ships, minelaying and coastal jaegers. 5) air defense used to rely more on gun batteries back in the 1990s, and the few SAM batteries (also the mobile Crotale and BUK ones we see in this video) were used to defend the capital area and a few strategic objectives. On a tactical level, brigades had MANPADS in addition to AA gun batteries. Nowadays we have more SAM capabilities to cover some operative units as well, but honestly it is still a weakness in the system. The F-35s are planned to fill some gaps (more so how the F-18s did) but I am a bit skeptical of that promise, looking at how things are going in Ukraine. The only good thing is, we kept the AA guns in storage and modernized a lot of them so we have a cost-effective way to fight the drones. 6) helicopters have never been a big part of logistics in Finland. You see them a lot in the promotional videos, but in the pre-NATO era we couldn't assume to have even a contested airspace in war-time so using helicopters on a larger scale would've been a waste of resources since we would've lost them very easily and very fast. Mostly they are tasked to transport the special forces and do peacetime tasks related to the SF elements. Now that we are in NATO, that might change. We might even get assault helicopters, fingers crossed. I hope I gave you some answers you were looking for. You said in one video you served with UNIFIL. I served with UNMEE for a year in 2003-04 and we actually took over from an Irish company stationed in Asmara so I have a bit of experience with the Irish military too. Sadly I can't remember what unit it was but they used MOWAGs so maybe a cavalry unit? I did hope to serve later in UNIFIL too, but then I got kids and that was that... Have a nice day! I'll keep following your channel from now on :)

I think the name Unknown Soldier was exactly due to the lost people in the war. Also it represents the different classes in Finnish society, and how the old grudges from the horrible civil war of 1918, which was more bloody than american civil war, still affected us, and Mannerheim was the leader of the Whites in the civil war. Still, somehow they did it and got this country together, as even the most of the left leaning guys didn't love Russia.

We don't get to take our service guns to home, no way, it would be mayhem :D. It's Switzerland which has that, and they don't have the bullets at home, as far as I understand. On the other hand we have one of the biggest hunting weapon amounts per capita in the world so there's lot's of good shooters here, good snipers.

Check out also. Tali-Ihantala, a total of around 50,000 Finns took part in the largest battle in the history of the Nordic countries at different stages

13:03 The weapons used in movie are authentic. This aint just movie in Finland. Its 3rd filmitazion of Väinö Linnas Unknown Soldier. Many Finns take this as expression what is our independence. PS. Hitlers comissar order did not bother us. Our Russian POW suffered much on winter 1941-42, and all our country was near starvation. Grain ships from Germany came at last moment in late spring 1942. Baltic Sea freezes during winters. Finland had at max half million men, and hundred thousand women in uniform, out of total population of 3.8 million. It severely cut our agricultural production.

"Bilge" is the space under the floor (metal grid) in the submarine to collect water and then pump it out (bilge pumps).

Thank you for the reaction of Finnish war movie. I agree that this not a good war movie. I never liked it. I think it started as a love movie but they just had to put war in it and failed. For this moment best Finnish war movies are Talvisota (Winter War) and Unknown Soldier. (There's three versions of Unknown Soldier done, and as I like the first one maybe best for nostalgia reasons the newest one is better for all. The middle one I do not recommend to see.)

1:16:57 why was this wound censored and the rest not?

Finland never expected the attack. You had to bring your clothing and gun. Only thing you got was a german helmet.

13:55 I belive the main reason to stay on the watersurface is because this U-boat is faster then under water. Under water a U-Boat Typ 7 can make only at 5-6 knots. And normaly you can´t get out of the range of a sonar but the explosion radius of a deathcharge getting smaller if they are depper under water.

The characters in the movie are fictional, but the author of the original book this movie was made of, did fight the war and some of the stuff on book/movie was based on his experiences. Like some characters might be loosely based on someone he met (like maybe he met an ignorant fool officer who shot the guy retreating or that sort of similarities), but still fictional characters. And yes the reason why its called "unknown soldier" is symbolic for all the heroes who were not heard of. The idea is not to make a movie of some particular war hero, but to represent all of them by just talking about unknown soldiers.

In many places in the movie you wonder for ex why they didn't flank the flankers or attack tanks from sides or whatever nonsense..the men were shot out and dead tired at that point.

Regarding on your comment when Hietanen tries to light his smoke after eliminating that tank : of course the shakes were because of fear