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[@cytorakdemon]

Don't worry about having to remember the details of the Winter War, Sabaton History covers it across three different videos, White Death, Talvisota, and Soldier of Three Armies. Someone asked him in an interview, "What did you feel when you kill those Russian soldiers?" Simon's response was, "the recoil".

[@pen7759]

My grandpa was in that war and survived. When I was nine years old he bought me an air rifle and learned me how to shoot with it. Then when I turned ten, grandpa gave me his real rifle and learned me to shoot with it. Grandpa always said to me, to hide how good you shoot, and there is a must: Never turn your weapon against a human, but only to the state enemy. He told me also: Never give up!

[@LuffyxNamiisathing]

My grandpa was also in that war. He was in grenade launcher company. I never met him for he died before i was born but my father told me of him and his achievements. He never liked to talk about war and his experiences at war in general and he never was proud of it. He said he did what he had to do or what he had ordered to do ( take no prisoners) for example. Finns against Russia. Grandpa always thought that he wasn't a good person for fighting in a war. I heard from my father that when he was drunk ( only time he showed a little emotion) he always thought about the people he had shot and how they had families who were waiting for them at home. He never felt like he was a hero.

[@pen7759]

As a native Finnish man I must thank you for doing this Sabaton reaction. I do appreciate your history knowledge. To know history, is for an individual, a mind opening experience and maybe when learning history, and by educating oneself you may be a better human. Thanks, stay safe!

[@envittutiia]

Torilla tavataan

[@ibuprofen_]

As a Swede and growing up further north than Simo the winters are very harsh. And as a Arctic Ranger in the military you use skis, backpack and weapons so this skill is essential

[@Revenent666]

Then I guess you already know, but don't eat the yellow snow.

[@annikamyren3026]

@@Revenent666 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Postidemoni]

For me... Around decade ago. It was actually willing position to use when I needed to really ski. Obviously I knew how to ski, but in the army no1 really taught me howto. Obviously I taught skiing for many persons and as way to move quickly...

[@michaelmay5453]

I actually live as far up north as you can get now, for the most part. I was retired but was called back so I don't spend all my time there but I will. I love it. When it gets below -40 (C or F, they converge at that temperature) the air changes and I love it. If you truly love nature and you truly love Sweden for what it is it's the place to be. Fallskärmsjägare här (1988, spanarplutonen senare Kapten i SSG), tränade med fjälljägare under min tid, tjänstgjorde i Kosovo, Bosnia, Kroatien och Afghanistan. Jag föredrar vädret i Svea rike.

[@DjKorppi]

Doing 16 shots in a minute with mosin nagant means you also reload three times using a stripper clip.

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

Most people can't do 16 hits in a minute using modern semi-auto rifles with large magazine.

[@Nevis1988]

Perkkeles en lukenu kommentteja ja kirjoitin vastaavaa :D

[@MustaLaatta]

Simo was born b4 Soviet Union was formed and died after that counry was gone...

[@MichelleParssinen]

I really appreciate your acknowledgment and empathy towards both sides of the war. I’m a Finn and it’s easy to lose sight of the higher perspective of the situation. War is horrific for all parties involved; there are no winners. And at the end of the day we’re all human, no matter how divided and different we may feel. Empathy is key to our species’ healing and growth. ❤️

[@marcusberggren9241]

My grandmother was born in the part of Karjala which is now Russia but was Finnish territory before the winter war. She, like many Finnish children at the time, went to Sweden to be protected from the war. Her brother was 19 years old and was killed in action at the age of 19 years old. that's my small tie to the conflict.

[@maxviking3210]

True about skiing. If it is up to 30cm snow you can get about 1.5-3km in an hour if you walk, if it is between 30-50cm of snow you will get between 0.5-1.5 km in an hour walking. Skiing you will get about 5km in an hour so it is a huge different. This is with combat equipment on. If it is over 50cm and you try to walk you won’t get anywhere at all basically as it is hard to lift your legs that high over the snow :)

[@najroe]

and here where I live (northern Sweden) we can get 1m of snow in a weekend or even more (this year 2022 we got 60cm in four hours 8th of April so...) walking around the woods with 1m of snow is not even realistic, drifts can get more than 3m, you basically need skis to get anywhere. with growing season end of may to beginning of September we had very limited resources as to vegetables and fruits, this meant fishing and hunting was vital for feeding the family, my grandparents started hunting as soon as they were physically able... First traps and snares then rifle, same with fishing.

[@davidnau2626]

There is a saying from a Finnish general from th Winterwar... he said "There are so many Russian soldiers and we are such a little country... where should we burry them all?" for the Finnish people it was never an option to loose

[@patrickfrostfodd9955]

My grandpa was in that war, i am proud finn

[@bjornrosenlund135]

My ancestors fought side by side with the Finns as well and I jave Finnish blood in my vains as well Finland and Sweden = brothers and sisters

[@pen7759]

@@bjornrosenlund135 Hälsningar från Finland. Du sade sådana tankar som jag tycker att det är sant också. Må bra där!

[@zackmarkham4240]

He also ate snow to prevent his breath from showing and he was THAT proficient from just shooting predators while guarding his family's farm and hunting. He had no formal training!

[@erikwilliams9553]

I lived in Finland for 4 1/2 years as a kid and my dad told me the story of how the Finns were able to hold back the Russians

[@nunogarces1628]

I've watched every episode on Sabaton history Channel and then I moved to Time Ghost's channel. I just love the way they delve into history and also how they present it. You should check it out. MORE SABATON!!! Just kidding, keep rocking 👍🤘🤘

[@MagnetHero]

God I love they do this. Learned so much!

[@LuffyxNamiisathing]

My grandpa was also in that war. He was in grenade launcher company. I never met him for he died before i was born but my father told me of him and his achievements. He never liked to talk about war and his experiences at war in general and he never was proud of it. He said he did what he had to do or what he had ordered to do ( take no prisoners) for example. Finns against Russia. Grandpa always thought that he wasn't a good person for fighting in a war. I heard from my father that when he was drunk ( only time he showed a little emotion) he always thought about the people he had shot and how they had families who were waiting for them at home. He never felt like he was a hero.

[@peo4989]

Cheers from Sweden. I live in a industrial city and we have lots of finnish people living here. A coworker of mine told me 5 years ago about his father that was a finnish jägerinfanterist during ww2 which meant he used bicycles and/or skis to move around. During an engagement on the Karelen isthmus(border region to Russia) his father was ordered along with his batallion to spearhead through a sovjet artillery post with bunker fortification connected. They had 5 snipers paving the way for them. I dont know if it was Simo Häyhä but they apparently was good. They used friendly artillery masking their movement and snipers shot look outs. Safe to say the finns were experts in asymmetric warfare at that time. :)

[@jani_koski]

I'm using almost the same rifle as my main hunting rifle. Only my rifle is the newer M/39 model, which has the 'pistol grip' but aside from that it's pretty much the same rifle as Simo's M/28. Gotta say I love that gun, it's the best weapon I've ever fired, despite it being a little bit heavy it is balanced incredibly well. I use it mostly on moose hunting so I really don't need a scope :D the iron sights are just so much quicker and easier to use in forest environment. Haven't yet tried the "Häyhä challenge", I'm not quite there yet even though I wouldn't count myself as a bad shooter. Maybe this summer I'll finally try and see how badly it goes :D The shooting rate doesn't sound too bad for me, but the reloading takes a moment so that slows the rate down quite much. I once tried to shoot as quickly as possible with 4 rounds in, and I managed to do it in 11 seconds, but even with that rate the reloading must be quite fast to reach 16 rounds in a minute. As Simo said himself: "Practice". Nice reaction :) Greetings from Finland!

[@jeffreygegler6266]

Poland also defeated the Russians in the 1920 Polish-Soviet War, so the Fins are not the only ones. The Polish victory became known as The Miracle on the Vistula.

[@brandenantonino23]

Hey OSN I just found your channel recently and I'm glad I did I love your content already brother keep it up and rock on!

[@sixtuspettersson6059]

I had a same model (Pystykorva)and (Suomi smg) when i did my military service in Finland (Got silver(no scope) in competision whit it) 1969-70.

[@HK23783]

Biggest mistake Stalin ever did, deciding attack Finland DURING WINTER!!! No infastructure, thick woods, snow, no light, freezing cold.

[@Blackferret66]

Yeah. It's arguable that Finland, the land itself, defeated the Russian army as much as the Fins themselves did.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Possibly tied by his decisions to "purge" the upper ranks of the Soviet military and society in his rise to power. A lot of institutional knowledge and skill was lost due to his paranoia.

[@Blackferret66]

@@MonkeyJedi99 Heh. No "possibly" about it. Historians are in pretty unanimous agreement that the loss of military experience from the purge of the upper ranks led to a lot of key missteps by the Soviet army.

[@mikkolaine4883]

After seen this you could do the Winter War episode =)

[@fredericsvensson2858]

I love your Sabaton reactions!

[@pen7759]

Ja om Sabaton tycker jag också, men om Bo Kaspers mest. Det så fint att Finland är ett bilingual stat. Jag använder nu språket jag lärde i skolan över femtio år sedan. Hälsningar från Uleåborg.

[@fredericsvensson2858]

@@pen7759 Det är fantastiskt att du skriver så bra trots att det var så länge sedan du läste svenska. Stor respekt till er Finnar, ni är ett starkt folk, raka ryggar med sizu som Sverige en gång i tiden också hade. Men den försvann för länge sedan i detta landet.

[@pen7759]

@@fredericsvensson2858 Jag tycker om om svenskarna, Stockholm har varit ett stad där min familj har visiterat tiotals gånger. Min dotter och hennes man har varit där för att ta med till Stockholm marathon för tre gånger. Stockholm är så vackert och där finns så mycket att visitera. Jag tycker att det så, att vi alla i Finland och i Sverige är inte bara grannar men som systrar också. Det är så mycket gemensam historia mellan oss.

[@breeee1998]

Dude I love your videos, looking forward to a potential reaction on Coat of arms, love from Greece ❤️

[@brittjannesath2539]

Great day, good laugh, history and Sabaton 👍👍😀

[@HK23783]

Hello, a Finn here👋

[@envittutiia]

No terve terve

[@magos_gladii3775]

If you like tanks I recommend a book called troop leader by Bill Bellamy as implied by the title Bill was a British troop leader of usually 3 Cromwell tanks during the latter years of the war.

[@MsElias64]

Thank's 👍

[@mannistef]

This is good stuff. I am glad the comedy only declaration was a bluff :)

[@lenasoderberg2583]

listening to you i realize you are right Im Swedish and Im damn proude of it. But I dont have the need to tell every person i meet. Its enough i know

[@urbankotto9685]

People from other contrys helpt Finland in the war.Jan bramsruud was one of them.The film about him is called,The twelfth man.

[@GhostDrummer]

The Soviet Union lost roughly 30+ million soldiers between WWI, The Winter War, and WWII...That is an unbelievable number of lives lost to war by one country in a span of 30 years. The numbers are a rough calculation from Wikipedia, so there is always room for debate...but it’s just insane to think about. These are the kind of thoughts that keep me up at night.

[@airplanemaniacgaming7877]

Dont forget the infamous qoute Stalin made about all those lives. "1 death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."

[@pen7759]

OldSkuleNerd I do like your way to comment these vids. To understand history is a way to understand what is happening today and sometimes it helps to understand why it is as it is today. I´ve seen you reacting so many times that for me, it´s obvious that you really know what you`re talking about. Btw. I hope we´ll see you reacting to a band called Wintersun. I´m sure you won´t regret it, to star with: Sons of Winter and Sun. Thanks!

[@stevenrider9632]

and he didn't use a telescope sight.

[@CosplayBuddies]

LOL "Rock'n'roll Jesus" yes, that's Pär for ya

[@tha2010kid]

just for a little insight, in old Norse religion there are actually 2 GODS of note. The God Ullr and the Goddess "the Giantess" Skadi , Gods of "winter, archery, and (skiing)". So yeah it literally is in the blood of culture, and as you mentioned Finland is part of the Old Norse territories.

[@bonez9160]

My brothers, be proud now!

[@anthonyhantonh]

The Finnish fight in the snow too. They’re awesome at it.

[@mobbad100]

insert bane line frome the movie here exept dark go winter

[@Coramelimane]

The real reason was Simo woke up from his coma the day the treaty was signed and the russians didn't want to face him again.

[@ortti8397]

Well, we did no "win" but we kept our indepence

[@ImForwardlook]

It was practically a win against all odds. If we would have "lost" there would be no Finland.

[@m2hmghb]

The Finnish Mosin Nagant rifles are such great pieces of work. Magnificent with the parts they used. They modified the triggers, the magazines, the bolts, the receivers. Some of the mods were as simple as to polish parts while others were a bit more in depth. They then put a new barrel that is significantly more accurate then the average soviet barrel and put a new beefed up stock that was better able to withstand the climate. The ammunition they used was significantly more accurate then the soviet issue stuff - although they could and often did use captured soviet stocks. Put it together and you can see why such a small group of soldiers was able to inflict that amount of damage - better trained better equipped - with better rifles (and I will say the Suomi is a better submachine gun then anything the soviets had). I've been enjoying your reactions to Sabaton OSN. Take it easy OSN

[@giancarlodellaquila5781]

Hi OldSkuleNerd, nice video as always. Around 07:00 you state that since the napoleonic wars nobody could beat Russia. Are you referring to ski competitions / survival skills or in general? Because Russia was defeated in the Crimean war, in the Russian - Japanese war and in WWI, before this happened.

[@heonavneil4695]

Russia was also defeated by Poland in 1920.

[@mannistef]

I was just about to write a similar comment :)

[@giancarlodellaquila5781]

@@heonavneil4695 You are absolutely right. The Polish - Russian war is not a well known conflict. I know about it, I looked The Great War channel that made a video and Indy Nidell made one too in the Between Two Wars series. It just didn't stick to my mind.

[@Nevis1988]

But must remember with that 16 shots there was reloadings (it was internal magazine what holds 5 rounds) so that firing speed is really fast :D

[@laurikoivumaki1471]

even my uncle doesnt have indoor toilet in hes house and its 2022 :D

[@HellBrYnger]

i too always felt more comfortable with an iron-sighted semi-auto sniper-rifle in the old battlefield games, and by old i mean 2 and 3, it was way more versitile than having a shotgun for close ranges

[@anette7283]

HayHa was a legend

[@kentnielsen8034]

hell im from denmark ,even i dont know how it is to live in a hars winter ,we never get snow here :/ and by the way ,look up poland they did stop the russians in the 20s ,russia did lose a war to them

[@jerpanils8875]

My finnish friends Grand Mother was a volunteer soldier, She killed alot. I asked her how it felt to kill a human, she said she didn't know, she killed vermin.

[@heatherwheeler8330]

But he became famous for his body count and the fact that he survived an explosive round to the jaw.

[@neoxperson7858]

Japan beat Russia before Finland did. In 1904-1905 although, Finland technically didn't win, they still did in a way.

[@Scytian1]

Poland won against USSR too - in 1920, look for Miracle at Vistula.

[@Tedger]

Häyhä shot from kneeling position. I am finnish and happy that we managed to fight of soviets and retain our position as western free society. Not very proud about us finns now as one year of covid and people are whining about how their lives are more difficult and others should do the restriction.. not one self... hard to believe that we are same ppl that survived the wars...

[@Qwarzz]

If only people understood that if everyone stopped trying their best to spread the virus we wouldn't even need the restrictions. Using masks and washing hands shouldn't be this hard.

[@cheflaboogie7449]

Yooooooo

[@MonkeyJedi99]

One big contributing factor to Finland's success in the First Winter War was Stalin's paranoid purges of the upper ranks of the Soviet Army and society. There was a deadly lack of good generals and filed officers, as well as senior NCOs.

[@Qwarzz]

Btw. "Pystykorva" is also the national dog of Finland Finnish Spitz.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

The First Winter War was also one of the things that led to the inevitable failure of the League of Nations as the Soviet Union was ejected from the body over the war (the strongest tool available to the League). The League of Nations failed utterly after its powerlessness to do anything about the Italian invasion of Abyssinia. The League of Nations was formally dissolved in 1946, though it had ceased being of any political importance since 1939.

[@danielbekmand5470]

You should realy check out Indy's (the narator) World War 1 and 2 channels. They follow the war week by week in "real time" no sense in reacting to it, but if you like history and world wars it's an excelent series.

[@sixtuspettersson6059]

Next Lauri Törni/ Larry Thorn (Finnish badass) . Sabaton *Soldier of 3 Armys* !! (John Wayne playd Larry in movie *Green Berrets* ) !!

[@lazik711]

Poland defeated the Russian army many times, even occupied Moscow three years, before Napoleon - so it is not true that no one defeated Russia, although the history of Finland is interesting

[@Brainreaver79]

didnt the last tzar fight a war with japan and lost? somewhere close before ww1?

[@sixtuspettersson6059]

Under the hole war Simo and his 31 fellow soldiers held the Kollaa Front against 4 000 sovjet soldiers 105 days!! (32 against 4000 !!!!)! Simo killd prox.7-800 of them !!

[@maggaw9869]

Reacts to Simo Häynä. The Deadliest Sniper in Military History Finland.

[@erikenqvist9081]

Simo killed 0,56% out of all fallen Russians, with a fucking bolt action Mosin. Original no-scoper.

[@juhareijonen5519]

Simo was Finnish, not Swedish ...😂😂😂

[@Finkele1]

There might be hermits but generally we are very high tech country. Big leap from 1940s...Nokia

[@Finkele1]

we lost ;)

[@sixtuspettersson6059]

Nokia phone is Finnish invention and home for Nokia. ;))

[@binyominsilverman1592]

Russo-Japanese War 1904 Battle of Port Arthur

[@ThisTrainIsLost]

As this takes place in Finland and there are plenty of Finnish names, why didn't they let the Finnish-speaker narrate? The biathlon became an Olympic sport because the Soviets were the main pushers for it to be. Why? Probably for the practice. Where does your info come from? The Russo-Finnish war took place during the winter of 1939-40 and Finland LOST the war in all geopolitical ways BUT, as a Soviet Premiere put it, Finland won the moral war. This affected Hitler's decision to create and implement Operation Barbarossa. However the Soviet experience in the Winter War caused them to begin a program to repair many of their weaknesses that became evident during their war with Finland. Why didn't Stalin occupy Finland? In large part because he didn't want to anger his allies, particularly Great Britain due to his need for the British navy to ferry matériel to the USSR.

[@jukopliut]

16:21 Sorry but Japan won Russia in 1905

[@lisafoster4468]

Whereas I'm kind of ashamed to be American at this point...

[@daniilgerasimov817]

Sorry, oldSkull but you were talking nonsense for some time. Actually, Russia did lose some wars after Napoleonic times. Technically WW1 considered a loss as well as Ruso-Japanese and few others. But the invasion of Finland actually was somewhat successful. Soviets suffered heavy casualties(like always) but in the end, they got territories they wanted to get.

[@joseph3946]

As a russian person, i can say that late tsarist Russia, and early Soviet Union were actually pretty weak, after the Napoleon war, Russia was beaten a handful of times by many countries, after WW1, early soviet Union was very outdated in it's equipment (at the beginning of WW2 it wasn't even viewed by a threat by Hitler given it's mostly volontary and untrained army, and late 1800's weapons), Russia was never particularly skilled in expansion wars (except for early Russian empire but that's another story), it had always won on it's homeland but in invasion it was really getting it's ass beaten by a lot of smaller and weaker countries, the only thing that saved Russia in WW2 was the people giving everything to win, even killing themselves just to save their comrades, so well, Russia was never really invincible or unbeatable. (Sorry for my english if something was written bad)

[@sixtuspettersson6059]

Nikita Krushchev say that over one miljon (1 000 000 )sovjet soldier died in Winter War !! Putin sade before Olympic Ishockey final against Finland " This is not end like Winter War !! (70 year after) we will win this time"!!..... (They won (they cheated !!)!! (So in my eyes they Lost Again !! ;)))

[@mikolajgrotowski]

Is not true nobody defend against ZSSR before Fins, look at Polisch Soviet war in 1920 and "miracle on Vistula river"

[@signolias100]

your statement about Russia not being turned back or beaten is wrong. the Russians lost both the Crimean war which was in the mid to late 1850's (the Napoleonic war was around 1803-1815) and the Russians also lost the Ruso Japanese war (1904-1905). granted neither were "take the capital" kind of defeats but ultimately still losses. So Japan successfully defended herself roughly 89 years after the Nepoleonic wars. if you say that about just their army then it is the allied forces in the Crimean war that were successful

[@cyrilpham9992]

why don't you just watch the whole video and then explaining more detail afterward?

[@1977Nerv]

Придурок херню собирает. Во первых , Финляндия несколько ранее этого, входила в состав российской империи кстати как и Польша, и по сути российская империя спасла финнов от полного уничтожения со стороны шведов. Во вторых в ходе зимней войны основные цели компании были достигнуты, а именно отодвинуть границы от Ленинграда, в третьих Финляндия участвовала в войне на стороне фашистской Германии и несёт часть ответственности за геноцид советских людей, особенно при блокаде Ленинграда. А я напомню, что в ходе блокады, постоянных бомбёжек и обстрелов в Ленинграде погибло около миллиона человек. Так что не следует с таким пафосом восхвалять эту маленькую но бл. гордую. И да. Сталин пощадил Финляндию, не ввел ее в состав СССР в качестве 16 республики а оставил свободной. Хотя мог и полностью разорить и лишить государственности.

[@wardasz]

"Since napoleonic wars nobady beats Russia" - lol nope. Russia lost to Japan in 1905, than it loose WW1 (and it is not only because of the revolution, revolution begine parialy because Germans kick they ases on the front line). Than, newborn soviet union lose to Poland (reborn merely 2 years earlier) in 1920, with Red Army being completelly devastated in the Warsaw/Vistula, and than Neva battles. The Finish - Russian war is winter '39-40, so it is during WW2. And... no. Hit and run on skis was big part of combat on the far north, but on the main front, on Karelia, there was no place for that, only good old heavy fortification and static warfare. Russian do not lose to some superior skis tactic, but to it's own drastic incompetence. And... on the end, Russia won. In late february they break the last line od Finish defence, overwhelm the Finish army and dictate the terms of peace treaty.

[@philliphogg5799]

Why can't you let Sabaton tell the story? Why share a video of history if you just keep rambling on?