How Finland Defeated Soviet Russia (Almost) | Countryball Finnish Civil War, Winter War & Mannerheim

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📢Take command in the Finnish Civil War and Winter War in🪖Hearts of Iron IV: Arms Against Tyranny: play.heartsofiron.com/CallMeEzekiel 💥Picking up a copy is a great way to thank Paradox for supporting our channel!🙏 💨Help pay for an Imperial German soldier's ticket home on: 🥰Patreon: www.patreon.com/CallMeEzekiel ▶KZbin Memberships: kzbin.info/door/nZ1r94_Ptz_1gN5VBnE0Mgjoin ⭐SubscribeStar: www.subscribestar.com/CallMeEzekiel 🙏PayPal: www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=EAQPBZ8VHGFL6 💬 Discord: discord.gg/zNhjjt77RC 🐦✖Twitter/X: twitter.com/CallMeEzekielYT 📨Free newsletter: callmeezekiel.substack.com/ 👽Subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/CallMeEzekielOfficial/ 📺Twitch: www.twitch.tv/callmeezekiel 📚Main sources and further reading: 🔴Finnish Civil War: A History from Beginning to End: amzn.to/46yt73h ⚪ ❄Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940: amzn.to/46waxZr 🪖Finland's War of Choice: The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War II: amzn.to/46xV0rV Note: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Crypto: 💸 🟠BTC: bc1qj2szqj0h0rj2zz5x0zdhr8fzrh85zmatwxht26 🔵ETH: 0x0344A4aF3eCe5F8E5C0f65FC4c7eB667bf31cD60 You can also watch us on... 👀 ❤Odysee: odysee.com/@CallMeEzekiel 💚Rumble: rumble.com/CallMeEzekiel

[@Shawa_Skibidi]

Great content man!

[@athinghere]

I dare you to sing "Nyet molotoff"

[@justinchase6666]

I dare you to do a video on ranavalona

[@elranchodejuancho1609]

as i know assume that you are a very big fan of paradox i think that you must be very happy to be sponsored by them, good for you man

[@Ipolitelyaskyoutodie]

💨

[@hellenicboi14]

"Some Finnish machine gunners even had to be removed from the front due to the psychological stress of killing so many men so easily." *DAMN*

[@Daniel_Lancelin]

When the enemy team gets dominated so badly you quit the match out of pity.

[@sarpyasar5893]

Suffering from success at its finest

[@pancakebandit2011]

They are just to good

[@The-Aviating-Gaming-Plane]

Man *i feel the Soviet ghosts floating around me already*

[@SgtMjAlex]

From the author he quotes in the video: "In some battles the Finnish machine gunners held their fire until the range was down to fifty meters; the butchery was dreadful. In a number of cases Finnish machine gunners had to be evacuated due to stress. They had become emotionally unstable from having to perform such mindless slaughter, day after day." "Under this kind of strain men snapped suddenly and without warning. During these January attacks one coolly professional platoon leader, who had endured two weeks of nonstop shelling and whose unit had repelled so many Russian attacks that they had lost count, suddenly went through that invisible window that marks the border of reason. He stumbled into his company commander’s dugout, tears streaming from his swollen, bloodshot eyes. “My wife is coming here with more machine guns!” he babbled. “My wife is coming and bringing us more weapons, so we can kill all of the bastards, every last one of them!” With that, still gesturing and yelling incoherently, he turned and ran outside into the Russian bombardment, where he was at once killed by shrapnel."

[@capiscrazy9732]

Went from making tutorials of games to history to now showing the history of the game itself.

[@offguy9939]

Lol fr

[@robertspeedwagon982]

Going full circle

[@milo_got_the_milk]

no he’s making tutorials on how to know about history XD

[@erpiji1758]

"Where will we find the room to burry all of them? " THAT SENT CHILLS ON MY SPINE, I DIDN'T KNOW THE FINNISH ARMY WERE THAT MENACING!

[@oh.69]

"Where will we find the room to bury all of them?" -said Ezekiel cheerfully

[@anadaere6861]

The Finnish on their way to create farm land from nothing but corpses

[@steve20097]

We dont like communist or just People trying To take our freedom

[@anttitheinternetguy3213]

My fathers father participated both Winter war And continuation war. I have his diary, The Day when The war started The text reads: "it seems like ruskies really want to Be beaten up, thats The general sentiment here in The army"

[@anttitheinternetguy3213]

@@Kolehmaine The diary from My grandpa tells that they really tried, he served in JR2 as a frontline soldier through both wars. In one entry he describes how a village was bombed bu mortars on The opening stages of The war, And Then a russian Squad opened fire on civilians trying to put out The Flames. Two men died And one old woman Lost her arm And Bled out. The diary entries stop about a month into a war, And My granpa never talked about The war, except once when he told My father that he has never seen anything as courageous as russian soldiers assaulting through open fields against machine gun that mowes them down. He hated communism And soviet union, but talked highly of russian people. My father inherited The same sentiment And i, Also, love russian people but thoroughly hate modern russian government.

[@Stickanimator1]

Okay if your enemies are getting PTSD for Killing you too easily there is definitely a problem

[@henriikkak2091]

You can see the same meat attack tactics employed by Russia in Ukraine

[@unknownentity8256]

@@henriikkak2091 Yes it has played out so similar to the winter war it's so bizarre, like they learned nothing from it. They started the war by attacking everywhere with long over stretched columns with fucked up logistical support which failed catastrophically, and then defaulted into the good Ol' endless zerg biomass wave rush strategy.

[@saidblanco7696]

​@@henriikkak2091 The Finnish were a different breed. In the Ukraine War, the Russians are expected to have the same or less casualties than the Ukrainians. In the Winter War, the Finnish had a 3 to 1 k/d ratio.

[@leichtmeister]

​@@saidblanco7696 lulz, who actually expects the Russians to have the same amount of losses than Ukraine? The US estimates are 70k dead Ukrainians vs 120k dead Russians.

[@pekkajarvinen69]

​@@saidblanco76966-7:1 according to wikipedia. I personally believe we had around 5:1 due to terrain bonus. Ukraine is likely to have 3:1 since they have flat open terrain

[@nathanseper8738]

When the bushes speak Creole, the French shriek. When the jungles speak Vietnamese, the Americans shriek. When the snow speaks Finnish, the Russians shriek.

[@daylightman8459]

When the border checkpoints start speaking closed, East Germans shriek.

[@Bruuuuuuh4]

when the buildings speak Russian, the Germans shriek when the sand speaks, an Australian accent,, the Italians shriek.

[@nathanseper8738]

@@Bruuuuuuh4 I don't get the last one. When did Australians and Italians fight?

[@powerist209]

I think North Africa or Italian campaign. Though it should include Hindi, Nepali, Urdu, Tamil, and Punjabi for “when sand speaks” since large chunks of British soldiers who fought there were from India.

[@Bruuuuuuh4]

Oh yeah, I was talking about the north Africa campaign, mainly in Libya, where a lot of Australians fought and the joke was that if an Italian had heard an Australian accent in the sand he was probably dead

[@PeterNygard69]

Mannerheim wasn’t actually a Swede, he was born in Finland into a Swedish-speaking noble house.

[@andersliwenborg3355]

What is Finland 🇫🇮/ Sweden 🇸🇪 longer history combined 700 years under Swedish flag then finnish

[@XGD5layer]

​@@andersliwenborg3355 RIP Karelia

[@heh9392]

This is a great video but it really makes me want to thumbdown it only due to this stupid mistake.

[@simonnachreiner8380]

So a Swede...

[@heh9392]

@@simonnachreiner8380 their minor nobility originated straight from germany a couple hundred years back.

[@user-ny1hy8zl8l]

Finally people often forget about Finland, but they are a fighter country

[@r.b.ratieta6111]

Finland is the quiet nerdy kid who reads fantasy novels, writes his own computer games, goes hiking and skiing on the weekend, and knocks every school bully who comes looking for them unconscious on the asphalt.

[@desertfox55]

"we had to fight alone"@@r.b.ratieta6111

[@lolnoobus]

Finland was part of Sweden, than they became part of Russian Empire. The End. History of "fighter nation" for 800 years. Where was all the fights?

[@kremepye3613]

​@@lolnoobusfinnish hakkapeliita wiped the floor with nearly every european army when they were Swedens cavalry, the storm troopers of the 17th and 18th century.

[@lolnoobus]

@@kremepye3613 I really doubt that europeans even knew about superior finnish cavalry forged in endless steppes of nomadic Finland. Somebody must told them. I mean, even russians dont know about finns in swedish empire army. For them it was all about "sweds haved a discipline and lot of germanic mercs on their side".

[@Azraeltheangelofdeath]

24:28 I swear I don't know how many times I've heard the line, "It's a densely packed Forrest, there's no way they'll invade through it", like how many times have the Germans gone straight through the Ardennes into France at this point

[@Adam-wg2rf]

Two i fink.

[@buddermonger2000]

Well, to be fair, the reason for its success was that the other party failed to capitalize on it

[@kemalcivelek9447]

Because ardennes is only a forest. There is no defenders.

[@artisan2.048]

You see, compared to the Ardenne forest, Finland despite being a small country has a extremely large amount of trees. Those trees are very densely packed not to mention the snow and ice that were extremely difficult and in come cases dangerous to traverse. The Ardennes also has a few more open areas compared to Finland which basically had none.

[@Derinma]

Those forests in eastern Finland and THICC af, like seriously dense.

[@clover1475]

It's still surprises me how the hell's Finland survived against the soviets 💨

[@hazzardalsohazzard2624]

The willingness to fight matters a lot. Compare the Red Army in Finland Vs the Red Army pushing the Germans out of the Soviet Union.

[@jeremiahkivi4256]

@@hazzardalsohazzard2624 Very true. The Soviet push from Stalingrad to Berlin is comparable to the will of the Finns to keep the Soviets out. I'm proud of my ancestral homeland.

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

The Winter War was simply a Soviet imperialist war to conquer Finland and many Soviets had little to no motivation. However, the Great Patriotic War was a war of extermination by the Nazis, so it motivated the Soviets to fight the Nazi war machine back to Berlin.

[@jmp7278]

Russia has a habit of just really not having a good time against countries that are smaller and weaker than it, at least in recent history anyway

[@TheArklyte]

​@@jmp7278 recent ie since at least Peter The Great?

[@nicolausg7058]

In Poland we see Gustav Mannerheim as Finnish version of Pilsudzki. Both were national heroes of thier homeland, commanded the army in ww1, great army commanders, both beaten bolsheviks up and managed to lead thier home countries to liberty and independence. Trully Mannerheim was a real hero, and this is good that he will be always rememberd. Altough I wish you made similar personal look at the Piłsudzki as a national hero. You did both Attaturk and now Mannerheim. All those 3 people were the same - a grat leader in time of need. All of them deserve respect, despite the controversies that they might cause.

[@elkgus403]

No Pilsukdziki is the copycat xD

[@warriorblack832]

I wouldn't say liberty poland was a dictatorship during WW2

[@nicolausg7058]

@@warriorblack832 In case of Poland it was like this: 1. Before Piłsudzki took power there was at least 13 diffrent governments in Poland in only just 4 years, since the end of Polish-bolshevik war. 2. First Elected President to whom Piłsudzki have tranferred his temporal privilegia was assasinated just a week after election 3. Due to the tariff war with Germany Inflation was so high that probably a countryball Jamaica is lower than that 4. The Polish parliment (Sejm) was so divided that there was almost zero chances of passing any reform, 5. the president basicly rescived the role of the King from the time of PLC (couldn't do shit in his country). So Piłsudzki had to take matter into his own hands and in 1926 he had to lead a coup to take power for good of the Poland. Still "dictatorial rule" in Poland was not so bad. There was working legal opposition, press mostly stayed free, and government did not overnationalised existing already industry but was creating a new one. The economical reform was a great idea and hyperinflation was stopped. Tbh many people is still critisising Piłsudzki for his actions, but whether we like it or not, he was the one that became Symbol of Rebirth in Poland. If ya wanna think about Piłsudzki's rule, think about it like about the Guillamain and his rule in Imperium of Man in 40k. It was not perfect but worked well enough to keep the Imperium and prevent it's fall.

[@warriorblack832]

@@nicolausg7058 thanks for info I was going to say that paland was proto fasist too but stoped ( many people said it had cult around marshal and was a dictatorship which was ultra nationlist i kinda belive first part more) bcz I only heard it online and didn't had info if it was really that it's really good to talk with people who don't jump and start a arguments.

[@warriorblack832]

@@nicolausg7058 was there some kind of cult of personality around him?

[@achourfreepalestine]

No way he was sponsored by HOI4 💀

[@Jaybird_102]

Bro taught a Tibetan monk how to shoot a gun, fucking brilliant XD

[@joelhernstrom6060]

Not only a tibetan monk, basically the bhuddist pope which is even better imo

[@aamo3960]

As a Finn it‘s amazing to see this high quality videos made about our history. Especially the civil war portion is something not many people outside of Finland know about, but which still has some lasting impacts to this day.

[@MrSpritzmeister]

How can you say something is high quality if the first 6 minutes is almost wholly inaccurate?

[@aamo3960]

@@MrSpritzmeister Can you elaborate?

[@MrSpritzmeister]

@@aamo3960 making Mannerheim Swedish. A pretty big issue. If you want to portray Swedish speakers as Swedes you’d have take the majority of the 27th Jeagers as well, and make them Swedish too.

[@aamo3960]

@@MrSpritzmeister Oh well yeah that is true. But he definetly was more of a Swede in the beginning not learning Finnish until the civil war.

[@MrSpritzmeister]

@@aamo3960 that’s absolutely false, whilst he was an opportunist, from the get go he was a Finn. Swedish speakers are Finns and have always been Finns just like Finnish speakers are. Also the illustration with the reds using the Finnish flag is highly inappropriate, especially if you’re using the coat of arms for the whites.

[@maxpont8989]

Although Mannerheim did not speak flawless Finnish, he spoke good German with some mistakes... The only recording we have of Austrian painter in his normal voice is from a visit he made to Mannerheim in Finland in 1942

[@Maddog-xc2zv]

he's origins back to the 1600's "Germany"

[@TimMatterSnorri999]

I love Finnland soooo much!!! The people ( we in europe says that the Finns are the happiest People in Europe), the History and the Nature. Fun fact: In russia the winter war isnt a war that is at good speak. But for the Finns the winter war is a heroic war. In that war the Finns kick the ass of the Soviets. Long live FINNNLANDIA! Love from Switzerland 🇨🇭

[@TimMatterSnorri999]

@@Rexsuprime Grüezi Rex Thx Body! 😊 Switzerland and Finnland has a beatiful nature. And in future my Plan is to visite Finnland your beatiful Land. ♥️ from Switzerland 🇨🇭

[@thatrandomguyontheinternet2477]

Fins are actually the most happy people in the world, according to data Ich lerne Deutsch in der Schule 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇳🇦 Et aussi Français 🇫🇷 Europeans together 🇧🇪

[@TomfooleryOfTheTrolls]

Uraliin! Uraliin! Suomi on maailman suurin!

[@adamenander9840]

Hey Ezekiel! Fun fact: there is actually a flag for finland-swedes - which is Mannerheim was - which would be better suited for him!

[@comeintotheforest]

Yes!!! It’s so wrong to have a Swedish flag for him. Might as well be a German flag because the name is from medieval german iron workers. It would be just as appropriate. Mannerheim was only Swedish by ancestry, not nationality

[@justskip4595]

@@comeintotheforest You could also portray American founding fathers as different nationalities too with one Finn in there also. Something slightly related: Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari won Nobel Peace Prize in 2008. He was born 1937 in Viipuri which was the 2nd biggest city in Finland. Finland lost Viipuri to soviet union in 1940 and the Noble foundation marked Martti Ahtisaari to be Russian and that the prize had gone to Russia. This wasn't corrected till 2016.

[@katathoombz]

​@@justskip4595wait, they fixed that? Nice!

[@UnwiseWords]

18:31 The mount and blade reference caught me off guard

[@janakotrasova2735]

Surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

[@Your_local_history.nerd.]

Fun fact: Communism is still very VERY un popular in Finland. A communist party (S.K.P.) still exist but it's nearly just a joke

[@Your_local_history.nerd.]

Haha log between tank wheels go brrr

[@darraasi2998]

I don't think communism was ever popular in Finland, but socialism was somewhat as SKDL (Finnish People's Democratic League) was part of the government coalition many times between 1944 and 1982 and was in fact the leading party in one government. Of course their support started going downhill after the 70's and nowadays their successor Vasemmistoliitto (Left Alliance) gets maybe half the support SKDL enjoyed in its day and is relegated to being SDP's (Social Democratic Party) little helper party rather than a force on its own.

[@Your_local_history.nerd.]

Kyllä mää taidan sen tietää

[@Your_local_history.nerd.]

Mutta olihan kommunismi suhteellisen suosittua silloin sisällissodan aikana.

[@darraasi2998]

Oli toki.

[@vult217]

9:45 One aspect seldom remembered about the civil war is how high the casualties were for such a small nation. Finland today has just about 6 million people, but back then it was way closer to 2 million. The civil war itself is still a sad memory, as many families were split and forced against eachother due to their ideologies, and finland back then had a very close-knit communities. "Täällä pohjantähden alla" is a classic finnish book and play about this very thing. Some historical buildings in helsinki still have bulletholes left from the civil war, as a reminder of our past.

[@MrSpritzmeister]

Mannerheim and other Swedish speaking Finns were and are 100% Finnish.

[@MF_GAMES_]

Finland is brave Finland is strong And Finland shall never give up

[@yurikozhokin8348]

Please. Finland is in the Europe's backyard that has little significance. Anyone thinking that Soviet Army that defeated the strongest army at the time - Germany - could not take Finland is a fool. If you look at WWII, Finnish army was destroyed by the Soviets in two short weeks just like the one of Italy. To the credit of Finns, they are tough, much like the Russians (after all we share a LOT of history and blood), but to say that it was undefeatable is crazy.

[@appelbaum89]

@@yurikozhokin8348 during the winter war the Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany were allies, only after the winter war did Hitler break that alliance and attack the Soviet Union, so Stalin was in no hurry to go to Berlin during the winter war and still he lost to Finland

[@yurikozhokin8348]

@@appelbaum89 are you sure, you are familiar with the results of that war?

[@aarfcrw-bx7n]

@@yurikozhokin8348 classic russians, still coping after 80 years about losing to Finland😂

[@yurikozhokin8348]

@@aarfcrw-bx7n can you actually specify how Russia lost to Finland, because the last time I checked there are hundreds of Finnish topographic names on the map of Russia. You see, because Russia took a lot of Finnish land.

[@valtsur08]

As I'm Finnish I'm so happy you are making video about my history

[@tadijastankovic4350]

Finland basically turned its entire economy and nation to fight in the winter war Fun fact in HOI4 when you beat the soviets alone as finland and take moscow you get the achievment “FINNISH HIM”

[@lardemor9375]

it was pain getting that achievement

[@unknownentity8256]

Yes I hope 2nd part includes the "Lotta's" Finnish female home front force that did everything possible and impossible to defend the country, like knitting clothing for frontline troops, ground recon of aerial targets, postal office work, communications, medical work etc. They were crucial part of the defence and often in memorials the veterans commend the Lotta's for their work with remarks such as "If they (Lotta's) weren't supporting us, we would've been nothing."

[@comeintotheforest]

I’ve seen every video ever made about the winter war but here I am like a pig to the trough. I just love it too much 🇫🇮🇫🇮

[@cassu6]

ngl Finland was super lucky to have such good politicians during the interwar period of 1918-1939. They really managed to keep to country together even amongst all the animosity caused by the civil war

[@gravemindster2320]

I just love the high amount of manpower you gave finland in the hoi-like snippets - very enjoyable video, keep up the good work man!

[@NH2-]

We definitely didn’t use cheats

[@ducksareurlords3782]

When the continuation war started, a Russian fighter was shot down in the lake in front of my grandparent's house (current-day finnish Karelia). The pilot died and the dude is still buried in the woods close where his plane fell in the lake.

[@brendanluoma3229]

My grandpa was an American volunteer who’s parents came from Finland

[@nationalmayhem8118]

I love it when historical channels use country balls to represent characters. I absolutely love your channel; keep up the good work

[@WanderingCoyoteXVII]

Having lived in Finland for two years, I'll always keep a soft spot in my heart for them. Onnea ja kyllä helvetti, Suomi!

[@jonathancampbell5231]

The "Molotov Cocktail" is named for Molotov of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. He claimed that reports of Soviets bombing Finland were lies and misinformation, and that in fact they were simply dropping food out of humanitarian concern. The Molotov Cocktail had existed before, but it got its nickname here- the Finns called it "a drink to go with the food".

[@CliffCardi]

And a Molotov cocktail’s original purpose is to throw it into a tank’s air intake vent to destroy the engine.

[@XGD5layer]

The Soviet air bombings are also called Molotov bread baskets

[@Jaeger958]

One of the heroes who fought in the Winter War at Summa was Einar Schadewitz. He climbed a top of a soviet tank and tried to pry the top hatch on the turret open. When that didnt work he knocked on the cover with a granade. The russians opened the hatch and Einar dropped the grenade in. The grenade did its job and after the fact he was asked what he was yelling on top of the tank. He claimed he didn't remember and then responded: "They did understand savonian. I said Hello Ivan! Deaths knocking on your door!". He was also rewarded the Mannerheim Cross in 1943.

[@andrewzebic6201]

18:30 The traditional Mount and Blade Approach 😆

[@kristofkarwinski5691]

Yeah 😂

[@aarolamsa2756]

I love how you used Finnish march/war music. It made the video really authentic , and as a Finn it felt great to hear the songs.

[@frank9424]

I am speed!

[@Torak_Ball]

?

[@TioWiki]

​@@Torak_Ballhe showsmeet

[@aizawlddma1737]

Ayoooo🧐

[@barnousauresrex2662]

I am sped

[@Habaskus]

Does that mean you want to show your meat in a fnaf stream?

[@environmentYTC_Handle]

As someone who is actually from Finland, this is one of the best portrayals of Finnish history that I've seen on yt! Keep up the good work!

[@Dark_Psychology1256]

As a finn i got hyped about this video

[@15098D]

> Flee Civil War > Arrive in Civil War > cry

[@akuljbaba5914]

Brusilov been real quiet when he learned they be callin him Brushilov

[@Andrewgamer92]

Finland proved it's glory by this beautiful attempt of defiance of superior arms.

[@butterflies655]

Mannerheim was 100% finnish. Almost every swedish speaking person is.

[@hdahlia]

But he was of Swedish and German descent. His great-great-grand-father immigrated to Finland in around 1780.

[@TheFinnishGamer]

Swedish speaking Finns?

[@ak-od7mf]

@@hdahlia if you can even call it that he immigrated, Sweden and Finland was the same country for around 600 years.

[@elkosins1686]

wow thats crazy how russia is currently doing the exact same thing

[@stargazer-elite]

Ruzzia when the snow starts speaking Finish: 😵 Ruzzia when the wheat fields start speaking Ukrainian: 😵

[@skullyboi1215]

@@stargazer-elite more like when the sky starts speaking Drones and Himars

[@moritamikamikara3879]

A Moscal colonel is sitting on a stash of captured dishwashers south of Bakhmut with one of his sergeants. While having his rations, he hears a shout "ONE KOZAK SOLDIER IS BETTER THAN 5 RUSSIANS!!" A little confused, the Colonel realises it's the enemy issuing a challenge. He turns to his sergeant and says "We'll see about that, get five of your men and go capture him, we'll put him to the sledgehammer and upload it to tiktok" The sergeant gets five of his men and tells them to take the Ukrainian. As they charge over the ridge, there's a loud ringing of gunfire and several screams, the colonel flinches, and then, dead quiet falls. Then, another shout "ONE KOZAK SOLDIER IS BETTER THAN 10 RUSSIANS!!" More confused, and a little cross, the Colonel tells another sergeant to take his entire squad and kill the man on sight, no playing around. The sergeant and his men charge over the ridge and open fire, the report of their kalashnikovs splitting the air, the colonel's ears are filled with screams. Once again, he hears a shout. "ONE KOZAK SOLDIER IS BETTER THAN 20 RUSSIANS!!" Infuriated, he demands that 20 soldiers rush over to kill the challenger. Again, gunfire and screaming is heard followed by silence. Again, he hears a shout. "ONE KOZAK SOLDIER IS BETTER THAN 100 RUSSIANS!!" Thoroughly teed off, the colonel decides it's enough playing around, and he orders not 100 but 200 soldiers to kill the challenger. More gunfire and more screaming meets his ears, but this time, instead of silence, he then hears the groaning of pain. A single private, the PKM gunner crawls back over the ridge, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the stomach. "Don't... don't send any more men over there!" He gasps "It's a trap... there's two of them!!"

[@foshershmul1648]

Ukraine is the one suffering more casualties

[@def3ndr887]

@@skullyboi1215 “Finns use irons sight? I use HIMARS.” -Ukrainian Bangalore

[@joshuawhitebeam3419]

You deserve so many more subscribers than this, the quality of the videos with its light humour makes it so enjoyable to watch. Thankyou!

[@MrLolx2u]

"F1+F3 Charge" Ah yes... The classic Mount & Blade move lol

[@docbaker3333]

"Since we civilians don't seem to making any progress, Perhaps it's the soldiers turn to speak." Goddamn that is one hell of a threat.

[@aFINNISHguy]

As a Finn I and all Finns have thease words programmed in are minds. ”Finlandia Finlandia, ylös veljet valkoiset, alas ryssät punaiset”.

[@aFINNISHguy]

My family have been involved in the civil, winter and continuation war

[@KalaAltheaBalik]

Maybe you should have done something when we were sold to the deep state of west, or do you just love to live a fictional story?

[@clarafindley6689]

I love this channel always shows these stories with new light and more context than ever

[@moritamikamikara3879]

For those unaware, Haake Pele translates to "CUT THEM DOWN!!!"

[@karigrandi7]

its actually hakkaa päälle and it means to "beat on them" or something like that

[@moritamikamikara3879]

@@karigrandi7 Finnish friends told me it means "Cut them down" "Cut their heads off"

[@karigrandi7]

@@moritamikamikara3879 cut them down is more of a english equivelant to it. google says the direct translation is "strike upon them" which to be fair is more accurate thab what i said earlier :D

[@the-letter_s]

Hakkapeliitta

[@sampohonkala4195]

All the translations are bad. The warcry is way more abstract althoug it is constructed of words that mean 'beat' and 'over'. But it should be understood that it was created be the Finniish cavalry that changed the cavalry methods by actually riding through the enemy lines using their swords unlike the older European way where the cavalry just fired the guns at close range and turned back to reload.

[@maximux777]

That M&B Bannerlord reference F1+ F3 get me 🤣 F1+F3 - Sun Tzu

[@nikomaila1497]

Oh boy. By far the best treatise on the subject I've ever come by. So much nuance I didn't know I was missing...

[@elkgus403]

0:32 Mannerheims was able to speak And understand Finnish though he had a heavy accent wich made him not use it much with the press. This made his ability to speak finnish down played in the public image.

[@marcuslegion3654]

Probably the only thing Finland did in history is ALMOST beat the Russians 😂😂😂

[@debater452]

Killed a quater of a million soldiers, kept their independence and became wealthy

[@baneofbanes]

Still better to be a Finn than a Russian.

[@aatoshaho]

As a finn and a person who wrote an essay last year about the civil war i can just say this was really good work and well explained. You covered all the topics. Keep it up!

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

Finland Defeated Soviet Russia Also Finland - "Where is my Viipuri"?

[@duhni4551]

Also Finland exists.

[@soldierbr8726]

Wake up babe the a new CallMeEzekiel Video dropped

[@RockerFinland]

Battles of the Winter War (not in order): Battle of the Raate Road: Finnish victory Battle of Kelja: Finnish victory Battle of Kollaa: Finnish victory Battle of Salla: Finnish victory Battle of Suomussalmi: Finnish victory Battle of Summa: both won once Battle of Kuhmo: Stalemate (no winners) Battle of Honkaniemi: Soviet victory Battle of Taipale: Finnish victory Battle of Tolvajärvi: Finnish victory Battle of Varolampi Pond: Finnish victory It was definitely a moral victory for the Finns - Even though Stalin wanted to be the winner on a paper because he was so humiliated. It would have been super long war if Finland didn't agreed the armistice. Finland kept the Independence and Stalin kept his face.

[@MelanieLeslie]

especially battle of kollaa that one soldier actually became the deadliest sniper GLOBALLY!!!

[@klemklemius5091]

THEY... THEY DID THE THING... they sponsored him!

[@jklncolpetzer]

YAY NEW CALLMEEZEKIEL VIDEO DROPPED 🎉🎉🎉

[@falconsimon7726]

This is going to be one of my favourite videos. Because I know how the Fins must felt when so much more powerfull nation wanted to destroy them. The only diffrence between the Czechoslovak case and this was that allies didnt forbid them from fighting. Like they did to us and practicly sold us off to the Germans.

[@the-letter_s]

the Allies didn't even pretend to care about Finland. when Finland requested to join the Allies, the request went practically ignored.

[@henriikkak2091]

The Allies did not support Finland taking its land back

[@ak-od7mf]

they did not, they allowed the sudeten germans to return to their homeland, the rest of czechoslovakia was kept intact except the piece that the Poles jumped in and stole.

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

25:00 Ah yes. "Sausage War" as the battle was called. Soviets stopped to engorge themselves with hot sausage soup.

[@QueenOfCringeT_T]

Why do I feel like Finland is only known for this, snow, and 'not existing'

[@the-artistocrats]

17:17 So cool to see a reference to our game Order of Battle (Winter War) :D

[@discozula4469]

My great grandfather fought for the reds in the civil war. He had a bullet in his abdomen and the other inmates helped him out by keeping his wound open so it wouldn't infect. He never spoke about ideology. Most reds and ex-reds didn't either. A lot of reds couldn't read, many who could had never read or heard about Marx. Most didn't want a socialist state, they fought for peace and food the working class.

[@andrewmakesanimations8281]

18:27 That is an amazing Bannerlord reference

[@fox_rblx9391]

EPIC REFERENCE! 18:29

[@13SScorpio]

My great-Grandfather was conscripted into the Wehrmacht and sent to Finland during the continuation war.

[@jeremiahkivi4256]

As a Finn descended American, I am quite proud of my heritage and the people of Finland. Got the short end of the stick geographically, but goddamn will they make you pay for every inch you want. Edit: using the HOI4 sounds for war and whatnot is great. I love you. This whisky is also great.

[@Mineno-fx6bi]

Great as always! 💨

[@youtubeadministration8037]

What a coincidence for me to see this video posted around 2 hours after looking for a talvisota video on KZbin (I watched Cody's one but it was shallow). Great timing here

[@mr.ponfrito7391]

Your videos are amazing man

[@comeintotheforest]

Hey mannerheim was NOT Swedish in the way that you’re suggesting. Yes he spoke Swedish and had Swedish ancestry, but no one from his community would consider themselves to be Swedes and they wouldn’t have done that 100 years ago either. They’re called “Swedish Speaking Finns” for a reason, and mannerheim as a national hero of Finland (essentially their George Washington) the Finns claim him as their own as well. It’s only people who don’t understand the internal dynamics of finnish ethnic linguistic groups (cough cough) that would ever call him a Swede.

[@dane0phelps]

I laughed when I saw the KZbin logo replaced the swastika for the Nazis 😂😂😂

[@BbobIII]

Yessss thank you for this masterpiece.

[@guanoapes771]

It pisses me off that they portrait Mannerheim as a Swede when he in fact was a Swedishspeaking-Finn and born in Finland, still people in Finland who cant really speak finnish, nevertheless they helped fight off the Soviets

[@CrimePickleExe]

His ethnicity is Swedish, while his nationality is finnish

[@guanoapes771]

@@CrimePickleExe No, his ethnicity is Swedish-speaking Finn so his nationality is thereby Finnish

[@ErzArt]

20:18 It's... as awesome as it is creepy-

[@juke1707]

18:30 I appreciate the mount and blade reference

[@sebbescott]

To be fair it doesn't surprise me that the "old war cry" hakkaa päälle was heard as it can loosely be translated as "keep striking" or "keep beating them up"

[@stargazer-elite]

One of the best Countryballs channels

[@goofymode8205]

hearing polka in loop now 💨

[@user-iz2tq3dx5d]

Good video as always

[@aidynsbestyoutubemoments]

love the hoi4 theme i was playing hoi4 while watching the video and when I heard the music in the video I thought it was the music in game and I was like what I thought I turned the music off

[@Seer_Of_The_Woodlands]

Great Video !

[@sasha1mama]

Countryballs are awesome.

[@floridianempireproductions7532]

Real

[@genericyoutubeaccount579]

Most of the Soviets invading Finland were Ukrainians and people born in southern Russia who were not accustomed to the cold.

[@WarriorVirtue]

It's almost funny to think about since we normally think of the Russians as the ones who practically invented arctic warfare.

[@noobikus5475]

​@@WarriorVirtuewell doesn't work with Communism. Communism means no food. And good luck fighting under Winter Condition without food XD. Remember Kids Communism is bad. Better dead than red

[@thenamesianna]

So Stalin was just being stupid

[@insertsomethingfuni2617]

​@@thenamesiannathat's just Stalin's gimmick, from purging his best commanders to ignoring earnings of German invasion

[@timoterava7108]

Not true! Most of the soviet divisions were from the North. The infamous soviet 44th ID from Ukraine, which was completely destroyed at the Raate Road, was an exception, not a rule. The Finnish intelligence recognised 49 soviet divisions (out of c. 60) in the Winter War. Based on their origin - 31 were russian - 1 unknown, probably russian - 10 Ukrainian - 7 Belarus Although a division being e.g. "russian" doesn't mean, that each and every soldier in that division was russian, it is exact enough.

[@Kevinlikescountrys]

I absolutely love your channel your so inspiring and I really wanna do what you do bro keep it up!

[@gordy4924]

Become the an-cap arms dealer of my dreams? Im sold on that game already, ezekiel deserves a raise❤

[@matyasfukk3270]

Hey Ezekiel, Since the theme of this video was beating the Soviets half way through, could you maybe do a video about the Hungarian revolution of 1956? Or the one in 1848-49? I am Hungarian and would love to see a video about it (I also speak English quite well so I could help translating sources from Hungarian to English if you want to)

[@luizin_0099]

I can't wait for him to talk about hayha 🙏🇫🇮

[@MelanieLeslie]

BELAYA SMERT "the white death"

[@HBon111]

Nice job with the sponsor, man!

[@larrywave]

Good video 👍👍 i would have only hoped that you would have covered kindred nation wars more

[@lasttiger2215]

This is one of the most well done videos you have done so far👏👏👏👏👏

[@Kone5497]

Thank you for making this video. It is always awesome to see people making videos of our history. I suggest you add Lapland's War into your video about Continuation War since it was important part of survival under Soviet threat.

[@Stormgamer-xb7gv]

Love your videos ❤️

[@FrankDa]

7:41 I love this part

[@invidatauro8922]

This and the Soviet-Polish war are two of my favorites. How can you not love commies getting their shit kicked in.

[@TheBobVova]

Soviet-Polish war 1939 was really good.

[@michaelwarenycia7588]

Yep. I live in Ukraine. My family is from Ternopil. My great grandfather was involved in the Polish Soviet war as an officer on the Polish side. He'd fought the Russians a couple years earlier in the Austrian army. Grandpa was in the next round, also against the Russians. And now it's the next one, and I'm here...always satisfying to watch these videos. Gives one hope.

[@michaelwarenycia7588]

​​@@TheBobVovaRussian, eh? Will you be paying us a visit soon?

[@TheBobVova]

@@michaelwarenycia7588 No mate, I prefer vacation in Asia.

[@michaelwarenycia7588]

@@TheBobVova not very patriotic of you to cheer your fellow Russians into here while fleeing yourself.

[@tavernburner3066]

history does not repeat, but it does rhyme.

[@colincrew1857]

(Insert the snow starts speaking Finnish meme here)

[@The_Great_Letter_E]

I would live to see the history of the American Revolution done like this! Great video as always

[@tangosmurfen2376]

Finnish people who have heard him speak Finnish say that Mannerheim spoke an excellent Finnish but he did not learn Finnish as a child but after he returned to Finland after the revolution He had then learned to speak Swedish German French English Russian Polish Chinese Japanese His polish is described as very elegant