Oh boy, that fella is Simo Häyhä. He’s Finnish and was nicknamed “The White Death” by the Soviet Union. Using basically a Finnish rip off of the Mosin Nagant and a lil sub machine gun he killed 505 men in the Winter War, which lasted just 100 days. He has the largest confirmed kills of any sniper ever. He was a fucking bad ass.
Do note that’s 505 confirmed men killed. The unconfirmed could be larger. You also forgot the other badass part, he took an incendiary round to the face, dragged his was 25KM back to base, and went into a coma., only waking on the last day of the war. The thing that is often said is that the Russians ended the war because he woke from his slumber.
And to add, he was a farmer with no military training who got back to farming after the war.
He used to dump water on the snow so the loose snow won’t fly with the gun kickback, and he stuffed his mouth with snow so his breath won’t be detected
The rifle this dude used didn’t have a scope unlike the ones Soviets had. This was because in the almost -40 degrees Celsius weather the scope could have frosted, the glint from the glass could have given him away, it took a bit longer to aim properly with it, it would have required him to raise his head higher which would have made him a bigger target and he just didn’t have the training to use a scoped rifle stolen from the enemy. He preferred to use a rifle he knew how to instead of learning to use a new one.
He lived up to be 96 years old and passed away in 2002.
Finns are to be feared.
you guys are aware that this dude was a literal fascist, right
like finland was allied with nazi germany in the winter war and finland had a far right pro fascist government
Yeah here’s another history buff with a better story. Him and his pals were supplied and reinforced by Nazi Germany and were a de facto member of the axis
I’m sick of explaining this. Simo Häyhä fought in the Winter War, which was between the Soviet Union and Finland. There were two Russo-Finnish wars that took place alongside ww2. They did not happen because Finland allied themselves with the Nazis. They happened because the Soviets decided to roll over the Finns to capture strategic territory and ports. The Soviets invaded Finland, a neutral sovereign country, because they thought the Finns wouldn’t fight back and because the rest of Europe wouldn’t complain because they desperately needed a Soviet second front. This was all before the Soviets were even in the war. They still were selling oil and arms to the Nazis. You can not expect a neutral country to not defend themselves just because their invaders happened to gearing up to fight Nazis at some point.
During the Winter War, the Finns and the Nazis didn’t talk at all. During the second Russo-Finnish war (or the continuation war), the Finns had an informal non-aggression pact with the Nazis and purchased weapons from them.The Germans did slip notes to the Finnish government through backchannels letting them know that they were going to invade the soviet union, so the Finns launched a simultaneous campaign to retake the territory that they had seeded at the end of The Winter War. It doesn’t look great but that is not the same thing as being a fascist. Regardless, we were in bed with fucking Stalin so it’s more than a little hypocritical to call the Finn’s Nazis for not wanting to be at war with two world-class superpowers at once.
The continuation war is academic anyway because Simo was shot in the fucking face a year prior. He didn’t fight in the Continuation War. He fought the Soviets who invaded his country while the Soviets had a formal treaty with Nazi Germany. History is fucking messy and far more so when you are sitting between two overwhelming expansionist states.
Ignorant morons being slammed is always fun
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Finally looked up the dates for anyone who wants to know links to the Wiki articles too
The Winter War[F 7] was a military conflict between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. (Source 2)
I’ll also add in after the Nazis invaded Poland the Soviets did the same as well as the Baltics (Estonia next to Finland). They worked together and a bit until Hitler Invaded the USSR.
There are rumors that Stalin was planning to invade Germany as well, Hitler was just faster.
Regardless, that was two tyrannical regimes utterly decimating Eastern Europe, anyone blaming the poor nations caught in the cross-fire and trying to survive is a moron.
Harry really didn’t want to go into the chamber. He had no family – no family who would turn up to see him risk his life, anyway. – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Harry was surprised by Mrs Weasley and Bill’s presence before the third task and I simply love how genuinely happy he got to see he was wrong about not having a family. “That was very nice of you.” Just a picture of Bill and Harry taken by a random wizard in the chamber.
whenever i see a baby in public i wish i were like a powerful faerie god mother character who could give the baby a gift like “you’ll never get a cold” or “math will always make sense to you” or something like bein’ great with string instruments but I don’t have any powers that I know of but it doesn’t stop me from trying so every time I see a baby in public I tell the adult with it “what a beautiful baby” and it makes them smile and then I pretend I can take the goodness of their smile and I look at the baby and I think very hard “you will have a good life, even if it’s hard, you will end up happy” and I’m just hopin’ the magic kicks in at some point
faerie: for your service, I will grant you one boon
When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of “overtime” when the angel appeared and said. “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on this one.”
And God said, “Have you read the specs on this order?” She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts…all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands.”
The angel shook her head slowly and said. “Six pairs of hands…. no way.”
It’s not the hands that are causing me problems,” God remarked, “it’s the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have.”
That’s on the standard model?” asked the angel. God nodded.
One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, ‘What are you kids doing in there?’ when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn’t but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say. ‘I understand and I love you’ without so much as uttering a word.”
God,” said the angel touching his sleeve gently, “Get some rest tomorrow….”
I can’t,” said God, “I’m so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick…can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger…and can get a nine year old to stand under a shower.”
The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. “It’s too soft,” she sighed.
But tough!” said God excitedly. “You can imagine what this mother can do or endure.”
Can it think?”
Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise,” said the Creator.
Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek.
There’s a leak,” she pronounced. “I told You that You were trying to put too much into this model.”
It’s not a leak,” said the Lord, “It’s a tear.”
What’s it for?”
It’s for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride.”
You are a genius, ” said the angel.
Somberly, God said, “I didn’t put it there.
Erma Bombeck, When God Created Mothers (via coral)
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