In exchange for the seizing the islands in the Gulf of Finland, the Karelian Isthmus, territory in the area of Ladoga, Karelia, Salla, and the Rybachy Peninsula, as well as a lease on Hanko, the Soviets suffered over 300,000 casualties, probably closer to 400,000, while inflicting only around 70,000 on the Finns. I see Putin saber-rattling about Finland trying to join NATO, and I'm like, how many times do these guys have to teach you this lesson, old man? Reminds me of an old joke I heard awhile ago: A Soviet commander received word that there was a single Finnish soldier hunkered down on a slight rise in the terrain before him. As the snow was drifting around and obscuring his vision, he decided to play it safe by sending a squad of 10 men up to root him out of his position. Gunfire echoed across the land, and when it suddenly died down and no one returned, he sent a company of 100 men in. More gunfire erupted, and as he can't see anything, he has to wait for word to come back. However, once the gunfire died down again, he waited for his men to return, and after waiting an hour and with no one coming back, he got worried. So he sends in what's left of his understrength regiment, 1000 men, to flush this man out. Gunfire erupts once more, and the commander is nervously awaiting news of what's going on through the cold, snowy fog. The fighting lasts into the night, and once it dies down, he rushes to the jump-off point, only to be greeted by a badly wounded man on the verge of death. In shock, he desperately asks, "Where is everyone?" To which the wounded soldier gasps out, "Dead". Stunned, the commander mutters, "One man killed all my men?" The wounded soldier shakes his head and says, "No, there were two of them."
@TouchyReactions2 жыл бұрын
Love the joke. Thanks
@oda66462 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Ukraine. Thank you for your reaction. Soon we will repeat the feat of the Finnish army. Every country deserves peace and independence.
@Finkele12 жыл бұрын
You will, stay strong.
@gashix2 жыл бұрын
Slava Ukraini!
@gorauma2 жыл бұрын
No you will do better, reclaim ALL the of the land back
@seppoharkkonen5766 Жыл бұрын
its always the small countries with a big neighbour who has to prove themselves and protect their homes.
@KaiHellmann Жыл бұрын
We must do more help with Ukraine
@ignorance1122 жыл бұрын
Glad to see this one from you, the Finnish spirit of resistance is something near and dear to me, keep up the great work!
@TouchyReactions2 жыл бұрын
Awesome, thank you!
@danielhjelmberg11732 жыл бұрын
Many people in my country of Sweden, 🇸🇪 came too Finlands aid and helped them too protected Finland 🇫🇮 against Soviet Union!!! Finland 🇫🇮 and Sweden 🇸🇪 at one time, was united for over 600 years. 1206 too 1806!!! Finland and Sweden, has always helped each other’s and we wouldn’t join nato without the other one doing the same!!! ❤️ Minä rakanstan Suomi ❤️
@jasonpade49492 жыл бұрын
Mark Twain said "History doesn't repeat itself, but It often rhymes.”
@JariJuslin Жыл бұрын
Tavastia club is not very big in size, but it's an honor to get to play there. It's the oldest rock club in Helsinki, and Helsinki in turn is the world metal capital, and they screen their artists thoroughly. For Finnish rock bands one of the milestones on becoming big is playing in Tavastia.
@danielhjelmberg11732 жыл бұрын
My country of Sweden 🇸🇪 will stand united together with Finland 🇫🇮 and Finland will stand united together with Sweden 🇸🇪
@jasonpade49492 жыл бұрын
Kirill Meretskov was one of the few decent Soviet generals left after Stalin's infamous Great Purge where he had hundreds of thousands of likely loyal Soviet citizens, politicians, and officers of all ranks executed, including three of the first five Marshals of the Soviet Union (The highest rank in the Soviet military, equivalent to a five star general in the US), Alexander Yegorov, Vasily Blyukher, and. most famously, Mikhail Tukhachevsky. Tukhachevsky was accused of disloyalty by one of the other five marshals, Semyon Budyonny (who, despite his incredible mustache was, in fact a terrible general) because Tukhachevsky was advocating for the use of armored warfare. Budyonny claimed that tanks would never be able to replace cavalry (which was a common viewpoint at the time) and so, Tukhachevsky was executed. This purge resulted in the major military setbacks the Soviets experienced at the start of the German invasion in 1941/
@tomi_92122 жыл бұрын
Good reaction, as always. Tavastia-club is one european oldest venue in Helsinki Finland started in 1970. Last time i have been there was Michael Monroe`s gig.
@TouchyReactions2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@AHVENAN2 жыл бұрын
They started the Sabaton History channel years after the release of The art of war, this just happened to be one of the first songs they chose to cover
@KaiHellmann Жыл бұрын
I ask my grandfather what you do when you came/come back home artwar. He said: ”I go to sauna and we makes baby’s”. And i ask what you was do second:”I take trousers of and make babys”🇫🇮
@AlmightyNorppa2 жыл бұрын
Oh man Tavastia was THE place to see a band in Finland. No longer in use as I recall. Saw some big names there back in the day.
@vivk15932 жыл бұрын
Aaaah Tavastia 🤩😍 What a great venue! (In Finland) It looks like that blond guitarist to the right on live video, is Thobbe Englund. He is from Finland.
@helldwarf67832 жыл бұрын
Nope. It's not Thobbe. It's Oskar Montelius and Rikard Sundén on guitar in that video.
@vivk15932 жыл бұрын
@@helldwarf6783 takker 😁
@dolangooby1172 жыл бұрын
If I'm not mistaken the live video is from valentines day of 2009 in club Tavastia, Helsinki: Sabaton's second ever show in Finland! I had the chance to be in the front row and I can't stress enough how powerful the energy in the crowd was - the video doesn't do it justice :) Great reaction, greetings from Finland!
@TouchyReactions2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Dolan
@AHVENAN2 жыл бұрын
I've seen Sabaton live a total of 9 times, the first two times were in 2008 and -09 at a venue even smaller than Tavastia the stage, was barely big enough to fit all 6 members and their gear but man they still kicked some major ass! I was front and center and was face to face with Joakim several times during the shows
@TouchyReactions2 жыл бұрын
They are pros
@6th_Army2 жыл бұрын
Seeing such a legendary frontman such as Joakim confined to such a small venue is weirdly funny.
@elzbietajukic9052 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly. History does repeat it self. People don't learn. Finland did tho. They want to NATO. Big countries often underestimate the small ones will to fight for their independence. And Sabaton sings about them all.🎶🇵🇱
@SmellsVishy2 жыл бұрын
History doesn't repeat, but it sure as hell rhymes
@markusgaming97632 жыл бұрын
Its not actually repeating, Finland fought alone, without any help of their (nonexistent) allies, they were alone vs a giant
@Murvelhund2 жыл бұрын
Love it, Joakims got a leg cramp and gonna love to hate 🤣
@madogthefirst2 жыл бұрын
Also notice Swedish Pagans and Glorious Land are missing on the song list in the video, both are actually on the Art of War album.
@thelahna-87472 жыл бұрын
Both Napoleon and Hitler faced the same problem fighting the russian forces than Stalin's forces faced against my Finland, the cold and snow. you would think at least stalin would have known the importance of preparing the winter warfare..
@andreasgaming97652 жыл бұрын
Yeah it must have been some kinda glitch or something I only have one account with this name ^-^
@andreasgaming97652 жыл бұрын
This is such great song :)
@benediktvogler42292 жыл бұрын
Another Battle with odd Numbers was in Germany in the time of the Roman Empire when barbaric tribes fought together to defeat the Roman legions. there we're 3 legions consisting of 3000 to 6000 men each and they all got wiped because of the density of the Teutoburg Forrest and the obstacles they had to overcome. It was a very Long Line of Marching Romans in 3 coloumns
@RavetsU2 жыл бұрын
If you look the map of Finland today and check the road network at the border, it is literally FULL of ambush points. Narrow roads with alot of crossroads with thick forest all around. All I can say is that we will welcome our neighbour from east. With the might of our artillery and small unit tactics. They will get slaughtered.
@TouchyReactions2 жыл бұрын
Yes
@neoxperson78582 жыл бұрын
It's kinda funny how you can switch the words "Stalin were too eager to invade" to "Putin were too eager to invade" and "Winter War!" to "Ukraine War" and one could think the song was about the current war. Of course Ukraine hasn't been very snowy.... yet. Winter is coming.
@madogthefirst2 жыл бұрын
Some of those listed are little tid bits, openings for the coming songs. Like Diary of a Unknown Soldier before Lost Battalion.
@markusgaming97632 жыл бұрын
12:57 yea, but back then Finland had no allies, no help from anyone, only cheer bravery of soliders No modern weapons, tanks from other nations, so its not really same as in 2022. (im trying not to start a war in comments, i love your channel!)
@TouchyReactions2 жыл бұрын
Truthful comments are welcome
@melkor34962 жыл бұрын
Definitely true but not 100% because Sweden have huge chunks of its military equipment to Finland in the winter war and a few thousand swedes volunteered to join Finland in the fight.
@vakistania2 жыл бұрын
Still waiting for Unbreakable, one of my top 3! Great reaction as always
@TouchyReactions2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@marinamucic9082 жыл бұрын
Love this song. Tommy Johansson just released a cover of Eagle Fly Free from Helloween and he really outdid himself this time. Check it out 😀
@tvaettis06532 жыл бұрын
I really like Rise of Evil, actually! Also, most of those Art Of War song that were featured in the lyric video, that you haven’t heard are just short snippets/intros without lyrics. Since there aren’t any Sabaton history versions of those, maybe you could react to them at tye end of another song instead. Union is a great song, however!
@Hockey-gn2tj2 жыл бұрын
Idk why but I can’t stand Rise of Evil
@mudshark53932 жыл бұрын
Ok, so "Sun Tzu Says" and "A Secret" are not songs, just spoken words as intro and outro to the album. "The Nature of Warefare" is not a song either, it's more of an intro to "Cliffs of Gallipoli", with spoken words... You could slap them all together in one video if you really wanted to... but I think that's not necessary.
@rampartwarrior62132 жыл бұрын
huh the more things change the more they stay the same
@melkor34962 жыл бұрын
Hey can you react to The last battle song from Sabaton sometime?
@TouchyReactions2 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure I have done it already.
@melkor34962 жыл бұрын
@@TouchyReactions No you haven’t I can’t find the history vid?
@markoruotsalainen1161 Жыл бұрын
Make video finnish rally
@halflife2fun2 жыл бұрын
there are already Ukraine themed videos of this song
@ratrakksstar44202 жыл бұрын
And like Finland in 40s Ukraine support nazis now
@ratrakksstar44202 жыл бұрын
And like Finland in 40s Ukraine support nazis now
@halflife2fun2 жыл бұрын
@@ratrakksstar4420 Soviets made unreasonable demands then attacked Finland. Finland joined Nazis just to stick it to the Soviets. Russia made unreasonable demands then attacked Ukraine. Let's see if they join NATO after the surrender is signed
@Wezqu2 жыл бұрын
@@halflife2fun "Finland joined Nazis just to stick it to Soviets" does noway reflect the events of what really caused Finland being co-belligerent with the Germans. Its way more complicated situation than "well Soviets were mean to us so we go with the Nazis".
@sepilander22 жыл бұрын
Mickey Mouse?
@sepilander22 жыл бұрын
19:40
@TouchyReactions2 жыл бұрын
Looks like him
@Finkele12 жыл бұрын
I just don't like the song...really. It's not that good. From Suomi
@TouchyReactions2 жыл бұрын
Honestly works
@Finkele12 жыл бұрын
@@TouchyReactions For getting around with ppl, you have to lie a bit. Honesty is brutal