Best part about Simo's long life is that he lived long enough to see the fall of the hated Soviet Union.

There is a joke in Finland: the reason Russia decided to offer peace was because Stalin heard Häyhä was showing signs of waking up (As he woke up one day after the peace).

@James-jl9lm

5 ай бұрын

Häyhä woke up the day OF the treaty, not the day after.

There is a made up war story that goes like: A large group of Russian soldiers in the border area in 1939 are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a small hill: "One Finnish soldier is better than ten Russian". The Russian commander quickly orders 10 of his best men over the hill where Upon a gun-battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes, then silence. The voice once again calls out: "One Finn is better than one hundred Russian." Furious, the Russian commander sends his next best 100 troops over the hill and instantly a huge gun fight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again Silence. The calm Finnish voice calls out again: "One Finn is better than one thousand Russians!" The enraged Russian commander musters 1000 fighters and sends them to the other side of the hill. Rifle fire, machine guns, grenades, rockets and cannon fire ring out as a terrible battle is fought... Then silence. Eventually one badly wounded Russian fighter crawls back over the hill and with his dying words tells his commander, "Don't send any more men...it's a trap. There's two of them."

@Banizar

7 ай бұрын

Simo Häyrä and Lauri Törni?

@user-qc6sq4mf1x

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@clashof6d768

4 ай бұрын

​@@Banizaror maybe aimo koivunen?

The methods Simo introduced are still being taught to snipers around the world. That's a long legacy from a man who only wanted to tend his farm.

Simo Häyhä was a fine and modest man, there won't be a single one like him from the current generation of social media junkies. A little before his 96th birthday, the interviewer asked if he felt guilty about the shooting, Häyhä answered: "I did what I was told, as well as I could. It wouldn't be Finland if everyone hadn't done the same thing."

@wombat4191

6 ай бұрын

Also. "What did you feel when you shot a Russian soldier?" "Recoil"

@newera478

Ай бұрын

@@wombat4191 You need to harden yourself when it comes to your enemies. Otherwise you can't function properly in war.

@De_Lirium

3 сағат бұрын

There for sure will be men like that in every generation. Not everyone of us use social media ;). Vanha pieru perkele.

I have read about this Finnish sniper in the Polish monthly magazine I buy. It was very interesting. Best wishes to Finland from Poland.

@tosa305

2 ай бұрын

Respect to you, polish brother 🇫🇮🇵🇱

Almost everyone in finland know who is Simo Häyhä

Simo Häyhä is the most best sniper in the world. Nobody never beat his record.

Häyhä and the rest of the heroes of the time are the reason why we can freely write in the comment section of youtube. The war heroes are held in high regard as they should be.

Simo is one thing why it's proud being finnish

There's a saying that Soviet troopers were feeling ok, until they noticed that the trees spoke Finnish. Also when Häyhä was asked how he got that good, he answered "with practice". I think that's a good life lesson.

We Finns are proud of Simo. But we are proud of everyone who fought in the Winter War. Everyone gave their best. The entire Finnish nation participated in the winter war. Every. The sacrifices were enormous and they still affect Finns even today. Simo himself said about his achievement that if every Finn had not given his all, Finland would not be an independent country. So he didn't want to take credit for himself alone but together with others. Honor and thanks to all our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers. And for those who never got to live long enough to have children.

@Pataassa

6 ай бұрын

And we are also grateful to all the Finnish women of the Winter War and proud of them as well. They treated the wounded, took up arms, acted as "Lotta", took care of the children, took care of the farms and did all the work. Finnish women even collected their wedding rings together and sold them abroad to get the Finnish state and their men more weapons for the front. Many Finnish women also died at the front while helping soldiers. Films have also been made in Finland from this point of view.

That 16 hits per minute with a bolt action rifle is truly astonishing stuff.

We celebrate our veterans more like group of heroes, not just single individuals. The heroism is considered to belong whole generation who survived then, and made good life possible to us. It also means, that almost all of us want to defence our country. Almost 90% want to keep our military reserve. There is saying that if Russians attack again, you have to tie most angry that they dont go to war immeaditly. Btw there is only few ppl who choose prison avoiding civilian or military service. It is always a big news in paper.

by the way, some people still say finland lost the war agains ussr.... i think they are very wrong, if we lost it we would not have a country called finland, or our country would be very little compared to what it is today

@Songfugel

9 ай бұрын

It is because of optics, since USSR was part of the allied forces and Stalin tried to gaslight people about the Winter War casualties and outcome

@Cronin_

8 ай бұрын

Soviet won a Pyrrhic victory. We had to cede 10% of our land (including our second largest city at the time) and had to pay reparations. We didn't win, but definitely embarrassed the Soviets

@Songfugel

8 ай бұрын

@@Cronin_Partly true, Soviet didn't win against Finland, they were on the side of the allied forces that were victorious agsist the axis powers, and it was at this peace treaty that USSR demanded those reparations and lands to be handed to them, since they had staged Finland attacking USSR to start the war as an aggressor

@Cronin_

8 ай бұрын

@@Songfugel Pyrrhic victory would still be the best word to describe it. "A victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat"

@Cronin_

8 ай бұрын

@@Songfugel If anyone won it was Soviet, and not Finland. We were in no position to make demands in the peace treaty

My father had a rifle of the same kind Mr. Häyhä used. At home, it was used to hunt moose. Very good and reliable weapon. - And, I have learned, that the daughter of my nowadays-friend was there to take care of Mr. Häyhä during his last years.... May he R.I.P,

@LilA-zl6tf

8 ай бұрын

But how, in the world.... Can you gather this much comments here - there must be an algorithm.... for that, too.... 🤔 And, may I ask how you have come to this "learning about Finland" - thing?

One of the significant things about Häyhä is specifically about his mentality. You were wondering how something like what he did in the Winter War affected him, but by every metric it seemed like it just... didn't. He was interviewed a few times in the later years of his life, and possibly one of the most well known quotes from him is his response to the question of what he felt when sniping all those russians: "Recoil." Simo was known to be a very down to earth, humble person, insisting that what he did was not something special, but that he just did his best for his country, just like everyone else. That's a huge part of why he's such a legend - his mentality and attitude are something every finn aspires to, and could be argued to have been a huge part of how he became what he was.

@nervanderi

8 ай бұрын

He did not want to kill anybody... He was a pasifist... Defending he´s home... Good damn I did read the whole comment... Uups.

@jaskau2462

8 ай бұрын

We've got our independence only couple of decades before the Soviet invasion which lead to Winter War (& then sum later on) Surely Finnish goverment takes action on to someone's(anyone's) efforts to invade here and cross our landborder, from the east especially on these uncertain days we're all living in here. The over all national mentality back then was still quite anti - Soviet - like, with all it's shades. As it seems to be nowadays as well. We Finns are territorial beings like swans(national bird) and lions which is adopted as a symbol for official flags, coats of arms, team sports etc. etc. 🤘😎 🇫🇮 💙 💯 💥

@samhartford8677

8 ай бұрын

As half-paficist woman I do not even care about the people he killed. Why should he have? I would never have had the life I lead now without the sacrifice and temerity of the men like him.

@jaskau2462

8 ай бұрын

@@samhartford8677 You have roots here in 🇫🇮 Finland? Referring your sentence, you wouldn't never have had the life you're living now because/without Simo Häyhä and the men like him(??) 🙄

@samhartford8677

8 ай бұрын

@@jaskau2462 I'm Finnish, fully. So, yes. Aina äänestänyt vihreitä tai SDP:tä, kunnon kukkahattutäti, mutta kyllä mä ymmärrän, kuka mulle on tämän etuoikeuden suonut. Tyttöhallitus vei meidät NATOon ja persut kotoutti ennätysmäärän turvapaikan hakijoita. Elämä ei ole yksinkertaista. Taustana: mun pappa oli ammattisotilas jne.

Törni also brave guy,soldier 3 armys

If he would have fought in the Continuation War as succesfully as he did in the Winter War, he would have over 6000 more sniper kills and total of around 10,000 kills. I think that wouldn't be possible, but those figures show how fierce the battle of Kollaa was.

@konstantinkelekhsaev302

8 ай бұрын

Serious question, do you actually believe this horseshit ?

He was just a guy, who casually no-scoped 5-6 guys on an average day, survived a bullet to his face and died peacefully in his 90’s. Absolute badass.

Viljam Pylkäs killed 83 Russian soldiers in one short skirmish with a sub machine gun.

@teroiivanainen3684

9 ай бұрын

82 tappoa ja suomikp piippu suli yön taistelussa

When the White Death was asked what he felt when he shot an enemy, the answer was short: The recoil!

"And THAT, kids, was the real reason for the peace treaty. Soviets heard that Simo had woken up." 🙃

Thank you this video, Thank you❤ He is True Hero of Finland.

One fact in the video is incorrect, the exploding bullet to the jaw was from infantry, not a sniper rifle. If it was sniper he'd be dead on a spot

@jopes4855

8 ай бұрын

Bullet does not know if it came from snipers rifle or infantrymans rifle. They used same guns. Though there are few variations of the gun, but still, it's the same gun. My grandfather lost his arm because exploding bullet, and this has been mentioned several times in other (finnish) interviews that most likely it hit somewhere right next to his cheek, not a direct hit. But still, it is possible that is was direct hit. But i don't believe we will ever find cellphone video to analyze from the event.

They asked once Häyhä what he felt shooting a Russian soldier . He answered the RECOIL .

105 days is kinda exaggerated. First of all, he wounded week before war ended so for him it was 97 days. You need to remember it took place in Finland, close to arctic circle, at winter when sun is rarely seen. 4-5 hours of daylight is standard. No nightvision scopes. So there is very small window when you can operate. You can also take some days of because weather, heavy snow rain makes it quite impossible. Troop transportation, day offs, other missions, etc. So lets say its 80 days, average 6h of daylight. Active shooting time would be something close 450 hours. It makes kill ratio PER HOUR higher than 1:1. *mic drop*

I did meet the guy in 2001.

The best thing on YT is Scots doing Videos! I love yer accent! Brilliant videos btw so far, got a new subscriber

Simo the legend between 505 - 542 confirmed kills now that puts the movies into perspective He used a Finnish-produced M/28-30 (a variant of the Mosin-Nagant rifle) and a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun

Grateful is what many are, who have put some time to think about WW2 in Finland. Häyhä's skills ware something they can't teach us. He was the most unique sharp shooter.

very funny to hear "rally english”. good videos man!

Hey! i originally found you from your NHL reactions, as you know hockey is big in Finland. you should react to finland winning gold in 2019 by timo wilderness, it really gives you some insight to the finnish sports scene :D

@marcobrinckmann1012

8 ай бұрын

What is this horseshit?

Thank You SIR

Here's a video on which a later version of Häyhä's riffle is being shot: "Finnish M39 Mosin Nagant to 1,100yds: Practical Accuracy". Some possible videos for reacting: Finns have often voted Mannerheim as the most notable Finn ever: "MANNERHEIM | History and his Line", "British Pathé FINLAND: Funeral of Field Marshal Mannerheim (1951)" and "The Mannerheim Museum Mannerheim ja kunnian kulttuuri". Lauri Törni/Larry Thorne is noted as one of the greatest Finnish soldiers: "Dark Docs Nazi to Green Beret - The Soldier Who Somehow Joined Both the German and US Army". A longer Finnish documentary about his life: "Törni - Sotilaan tarina (A Soldier's Story) English Subtitles". This gentleman declares Ilmari Juutilainen as the world's most successful fighter pilot: "WarblesOnALot World's Most Successful Fighter Pilot...; Ilmari Juutilainen !". An interview with Juutilainen: "Finnish fighter aces interviewed 1944 (with eng sub) / Hävittäjä-ässät haastattelussa 1944". This one is an often reacted topic along with the Aimo Koivunen's story: "FINNISH LONG RANGE PATROLS AND AMPHETAMINE" and "Dark Docs The Terrifying Soldier Rampaging on 30 Tablets of Meth".

There is a finnish investigating program called: Karpolla on asiaa, which he made a short documentary called "The sprit of the winter war" It haves english subtitles.

Check out Lauri Törni/Larry Thorne... Soldie in 3 armies... Finland, Germany And USA....

Finnish documentary about Häyhä said that his jaw wasn't shot by sniper but Häyhä was injured in offensive in which he was operating machine gun... Main reason why Häyhä was so insurmountable in that environment was his life as a hunter. When you translate literally the Finnish word 'hunt' it would be 'foresting' and that tells the Finnish attitude. Video stated piles of dead carcasses but that ain't the Finnish style, especially in the East where Häyhä lived most of his life as a farmer. He knew nature remarkably well, probably he had spent lots of time sitting in the forest in special Finnish silence, making observations about weather, animal behaviour, traces of others and himself... probably he was also fowling, so he needed to know how to move in the forest absolutely quiet and invisibly. And in Finnish way, he didn't brag. In 2001 he told in interview that "I did what was told as well as I could. Finland wouldn't exist if everyone wouldn't done the same."

He outlived the Soviet Union. That's hilarious.

Simo couldn't sleep alone after the war. He worked and lived at his own farm but every night he went to sleep at his brother's home.

too bad its mostly forgotten by youngsters here nowadays. good you bring it up

Lauri Törni aka Larry Thorne is even more famous that Simo check him out too! :)

Just to fix the facts, Simo was never shot by a Russian sniper. The jaw shot came in a close combat much later than these early winter 1940 events.

also gotta point out that after that living peaceful life with no violence is just heroic idol to have. After war ofc

Sidorenko 500 took 5 years.

The scopes of that era were not nearly as good as modern ones. Just the winter temperatures and humidity caused lots of problems making them often un-usable and the magnification and clarity were not too good as well. In winter conditions at forest iron sights just make more sense.

Resevviläliitto remembers and part of the people, but has not yet received its own flag day, but we are free to flag Simo in his honor

Also i recommend checking out a video about finnish sauna culture!

@pvahanen

8 ай бұрын

Us ambassador Bruce Oreck has an unusual sauna experience kzread.info/dash/bejne/oZuFuZRwn62Zibg.html

Have you seen a finnish movie Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas, 2017) it realistically tells about Finnish soldiers in ww2. many consider it the best war movie ever. I recommend.

Hi. I am proud to tell, I had once to meet Simo personally. It was early 1960. We were going to sell Him a horse. Well, winter time, horse, sledge, my grandpa and I. And the horse to be sell. From Korpjärvi village to Miettilä village, Rautjärvi commun. Simo lived there with his sister. My grandpa says to me "Kari, you will be soon meet a great man". When we meet Simo, I remembered my grandpa. Great woud be.Big, cool, massive. Not at all, I was 10 yers old and Simo was as tall as I were. Not a physically man, but mentally, he was. Humble, and when he talks, everybody listens carefully. I remember, I was afraid of His face, it was awful. Sorry for bad English.

More about Simo Häyhä: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4

We still in Finland say: ” yksi suomalainen vastaa kymmentä ryssää ” this means that one finn is same than 10 russians.

as I remember simo was not shot by a sniper but in a furious attack by the finns

Simo .. Well people told that Simo is goming here, so Russian left.. Even. Butn The Ma in Point was He Shot ALL R>usian snipers!!

im fairly certain the numbers that were reported here were "confirmed kills". no idea how they confirmed the kills back then though

@RoyalMela

8 ай бұрын

Most of times Simo had a spotter, and also russians kept records of losses. Confirmed from both sides are no less than 505, but 542 is often his unconfirmed number.

Hi; your pronounce. Is it Welsh or another round Scottish? Sounds nice...

also Häyhäs commander could b taken as hero

The war history is interesting. WWII have a look what planes Finland had and how many Aces there was. Other than handful of Bf109's it was very mixed bag of planes where most were obsolete. Finnish air-force also included planes from Russia that were shot down and rebuild. There were some end of the life Hawker Hurricane's. 10 to be exact where 2 were lost on transfer for mechanical problems. There were old Italian planes. Obsolete German planes. Few American planes. Just about anything and everything that no one else wanted. Yet you can find Finnish Aces at the top end of the listing of Aces. There was also an attempt to build all Finnish fighter planes called "Myrsky" (Storm). Finland didn't have spare parts and everything was made from scratch or in some cases team was send behind the lines to steal the part for the Russian made planes or the parts were salvaged from downed planes.

This is late but one thing no one says when comparing is Häyhä did 500+ in >100 days. Compare that to whatever is on second.

Check out the Lauri Törni aka Larry Thorne

Americans cry "Ambush!" when the trees start speaking Vietnamese; the Russians piss themselves and get stone drunk on vodka when the snow starts speaking Finnish.

U sould react finnish music!

Remember 505 during 100 days vs 500 during ww2

I think there is no other

Winterwar lasted only 105 days.

hello! there is one video i have suggested to many others too but they never made video of it but... you could do it in two parts or so if its too long (almost one hour) the video is ice and fire: the winter war - kzread.info/dash/bejne/iYZmqNOGhbnAqsY.html it is very well made documentary with english subtitles if i remember right... also real footage + some footage from talvisota movie! it is just so great and emotional!

If you wanna know more about Simon Häyhä you should digg in on Sabaton history channel

a HEAVY accent

heihää

According to some sources, it is estimated that in addition to that 500+ sniper count he also got 200+ russians with a machine pistol in his position as a squad leader.

4:15 I bet there are a lot of people in this world who actually carry the death of more than 500 people on their conscience. To be fair.

@TheNismo777

8 ай бұрын

Yes but not snipers :)

@jopes4855

8 ай бұрын

Personally deleted? Don't think that many. By giving orders... yeah. Lot's of them, some of them not so far from where Simo was doing his job.

Im Finish so he didnt shoot normal people, he killed more rank and snipers. Thats why he were in almost dying in field, cos sun came out, so he spend two days lying in field, and listening to Russian snipers shooting bodies there next to him.. So night came and he got back,... but they know almost where he shooted general, so they shot dead bodies, Simo there lying.. That is more impressive.. He had to eat snow, not moving, that breath dont give him up... That was miracle...

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mm1tsdV8orGxqM4.html correct spelling for Simo "Simuna" Häyhä

Amazing. Pronounciation. Heyhä. Ä is ä always in finnish language. We don't have different 8 different s's or ch sch or what ever asian laguages what i know nothing of. We have very simple language. It's logic and grammars is always the same. Not like germanic where there are odd verbss. Who ever invented them? like I like this, i liked this, i have liked this, i had liked this. Easy enough but put. i put, i put, i have put, i had put. English is actually so weird and complicated that native speakers don't know it. summa summarum....no1 has ever mastered finnish except native finnish.

come in Finland and try your self how you can live in your own in Finnish woods! Summer and Winter.. wellcome! My husband do that every fucking year.. and he love that. you can come to try, same things

@miiasihvonen4636

7 ай бұрын

you can come in east-finland, in saimaa sulkava/puumala. we give you same things what my husband take when he going in woods and he live there about 1-2months

You ask comments etc in every video, but you react none of them.

You spell his Name incorrectly .... In Finnish an "ä" is spelled as "ä" , an "y" is spelled as "ü" - so correctly spelled his name sounds "HÄÜHÄ" or finnish written "Häyhä" and not "Häiha", like you incorrectly did....

I made what I was orded to do and I made it as well as I could. Sayd by Hayha

Ikävää näistä on tarinoida. Minulla suru sukuni poismenosta. Synnyin ja enot oli ammuttu Itä -rajalla👁👺

I found quite a lot about him last year. A lot thats covered here. But his kill of over 800 as a conservative total makes him the best every by a mile. He lived till 2002. he was always a hunter so the prey did not really both him too much. He was a very humble man. He was what many will call a hero or supernatural. To him he just did what he did to the best of his ability. He was lucky that he was posted to his enviroment and his area of expertise to do a job he could do very well and given the freedom to do it his way. Like so many back then they did not see themselves as doing anything special. They just did the job that needed doing that day.

Dont fuck with Simo.

Koita täm'ä. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k6Z_2qWihL3VqbQ.html

It’s pronounced ha-ew-ha, “ha” like in “hangar”

i hate when non finnish people say finnish names its so annoying to hear them mispronounce everything

@sicknessnfilth1616

8 ай бұрын

So plug your ears then.

Heihaa Heihaa ^-^