cool to hear the story because it isn't even well known in Finland and as a citizen of Kokkola i really appreciate it, thank you

@Winland88

3 жыл бұрын

Hate to admit i didn't know this story even as a history junkie, there is probably more smaller local things i do not know.

@riku3716

3 жыл бұрын

@@Winland88 I had this story taught during History lesson at some point, but I didn't exactly remember it till now. Fun fact, in one place the Brits destroyed lot of tar (major Finnish export at the time) and it turned out that tar had already been bought by the British, so they just destroyed their own property.

@riesa85

2 жыл бұрын

@@riku3716 Matts Kankkonens comment of "jag ska ta han med cigarren" (Kokkola was almost fully Swedish speaking at the time) just before he shot lieutenant Carrington of the first landing craft with one shot is legendary and his portrait is still hung in the Presidential Palace! With his seal hunting rifle! Czar Nikolai 1 is said to have gifted him a "Pyhän Yrjön hopeamitalli" and two rifles for his effort. As per Wikipedia Former President Martti Ahtisaari is said to have been most fond of his portrait.

I have some British friends who have served in Royal Navy and I always like to tell the story of HMS Vulture's Boat. The only Royal Navy vessel still in "enemy" hands. I have heard rumour/version that usually when new ambassador of the United Kingdom to Finland is appointed and takes the office in Helsinki, he/she makes then official request to Finland for returning the vessel back to UK. Request is made to President of Finland when ambassador of UK makes the first official visit to Presidential Palace. And the request is every time kindly denied. But I can not confirm is it true or not.

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Dude that would be exactly me haha this story needs to be told every British person!

@Aquelll

3 жыл бұрын

@@IrishinFinland Another funny thing about war mementos is that the Soviet Union stated to the end that no war banners of their units were ever taken by the enemy during WW2 and that statement is still held up by the Russian government today. There are tens of them on show at the Finnish Military Museum in Helsinki though. 😏

@reigoj8228

3 жыл бұрын

@@Aquelll In addition finnish commander, Colonel Kari, took hold of 44th soviet division banner, which represents destruction of the entire division. That banner is still in Finland, even soviets admitted that 44th was completely destroyed but the banner apparently never fell to the hands of Finns.

@lyrigageforge3259

3 жыл бұрын

@@IrishinFinland This song is about that war - we call it the War of Åland. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZGGlsM6YpNWqhM4.html The skirmish is just small part of it and in my birth town they killed a hand full of people wanting to get the food out from the town. I think this song does show that they were impressive enemy, but it does also declare that we put up a fight. Hope you can understand lyrics.

@lyrigageforge3259

3 жыл бұрын

@@Aquelll Yep, they probably were never made either. ^^

This is definitely a cool story. I myself am from and still live in Kokkola and the England Park (''Englanninpuisto'') is just 400 meters from my house. They actually renovated the building with the boat just last year! You can even see all the bullet holes and damage that the boat took during the fight - it's really really cool and the boat isn't exactly a small one either. Also, i don't know if this is true, but my history teacher told us that during the skirmish, some of the townsfolk went to the hills and cliffs of Halkokari to watch the battle and even had picnics while watching the fight progress. Could be just a made up story but i think it showcases the attitude that we still have towards that event! :D It should also be noted that the english lost, according to Wikipedia, 3 officers and 15 sailors, while 3 officers and 31 sailors were taken as prisoners. The finns lost a horse.

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, for small nations like Ireland its a fantastic story, I also have to get down there ASAP to see it!

@miltender4939

3 жыл бұрын

@@IrishinFinland I really recommend it, we have a lot of history here. Basically half of the town consists of old sailors homes etc. from the 1700-1800s and people still live in them. There's even some trenches that were dug during the Crimean War a few kilometers away from the city, in Elba's Nature Trail.

@Wezqu

3 жыл бұрын

The story is most likely true it was quite common of locals to come watch the battles from distance as even cannons back then could not shoot that far and not even mentioning the muskets. There is a lot of similar stories dotted around history all over the world. It only ended when it became too dangerous to watch when bullets could fly very long distances, artillery could shell large areas and not mentioning the new air planes bombing everything that moved. Humans are curious species and seeing battle with your own eyes is interesting.

@mantailuaa

3 жыл бұрын

@@miltender4939 My husband lived in Kokkola when he was a child and I was born there (didn’t live there though). We are visiting the old church hill allmost every summer to say hello to the wooden pauper statue. The old church hill area is very interesting and beautiful place to visit.

@mil-fpv4931

3 жыл бұрын

@@Wezqu They do this in Israel still?

As part of the Crimean War, the campaing in our shores was/is known as the War of Åland, or in Finnish: Oolannin sota. There's even a song made out of it. Oulu was also bombed by the British back then, and beign the "tar capitol of the North", even the British trated with us. One event in that campaing had the Brits burn a shipload full of tar barrels, which they unknowingly actually owned themselves having paid for it before hand.

@timomastosalo

3 жыл бұрын

So the tar was theirs, they were free to do with it as they pleased. Just they should have used their own warehouses, or other UK premises. There's due the price of the warehouses. And one fortress in Åland. Well, part of that payment belongs to Russia, they mostly build that fortress. Then there's that Oulu, and what else

@josephinejeffery

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@riesa85

2 жыл бұрын

@@timomastosalo Saisko suomennettuna? Sun englanti on aika sekava!

The fact that you could barely contain your glee at this story (not that I think you tried very hard!) made me smile a lot! And I am British!

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad a British person sees the humour in this particular battle 👍🏻✊🏻

@suaptoest

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, and I'm Finnish!

The Brits didn't always think things through. For example, they destroyed materials meant for ship-building - including thousands of barrels of tar that British merchants had ordered and already paid for.

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha absolutely crazy planning

@arnonart

3 жыл бұрын

and on top of all things they lost a precious boat!

Cool! Even tho I know quite a lot about Finnish history, I haven't heard this story before. It took an Irish person living in Oulu to do that. Kiitos!

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Henri! I love history, And Finnish history is like a wine cellar that has just been found, as the great Sir Tolkien once said ✊🏻

@Top_One

3 жыл бұрын

I think this was part of the Åland War.

@hextatik_sound

3 жыл бұрын

Yes and part of the Crimean war.

Suggestions: How about talking sometimes about the legendary Finnish puukko and its significance for Finns. Another topic, related to the previous one, is Häjyt or Puukkojunkkarit (knife-fighters, knife junkers) some of whose reputation and stories are familiar to most Finns. As everyone is familiar with the Wild West gunslingers and murderers in America, in Finland everyone knows such knife junkers from Ostrobothnia as Antti Isotalo ("Iso-Antti", Big Antti), Antti Rannanjärvi, Jaska Pukkila, Matti Haapoja, etc. The songs about them have survived to this day. The most famous song is probably "Isontalon Antti ja Rannanjärvi". The "golden age" of Häjyt lasted from the 1820s to the 1880s, when hundreds of people were killed in fights. Often with a puukko.

Loving these stories, and you tell them so well! Thanks for sharing!

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

Looks like a lovely place your living mate! Would love to move to Finland best country I’ve ever visited for sure!

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

It really is! When all this is over get yourself over here asap

@DanUnplanned

3 жыл бұрын

@@IrishinFinland I’m from the uk man my window to just move has closed now I fear! Lockdown stopped that chance 😢

@ghost-fm6ne

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanUnplanned theres already too many foreigneirs here pls i recommend sweden

@DanUnplanned

3 жыл бұрын

@@ghost-fm6ne wow! You work for visit Finland?

@ghost-fm6ne

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanUnplanned nope but as a finnish person its sad to see people from shithole countries wiping our gene pool

Wonderful story! I live in the US on the East coast, however, I grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I'm a proud grandchild of Finn Grandparents on both sides. Both sides homesteaded their land.... anyhoo... somewhere I lost my Sisu! THIS story and the way you told it has awoken it in my heart!! At my age, many issues can bring one down- damn pandemic NOT helping either! I am going to watch all your vids. THIS ONE - I am saving to watch again! Thank youI PS I have, all my life, considered the woods, forest to be my church too! (re: your previous video)

This was during the Crimean war of 1853-56 of Russia against the Ottoman Empire, France and UK. The "military equipment" the British Navy destroyed in different ports of the Grand Duchy of Finland actually included also boats, ships (also those owned by civilians and used for civilian transport), and large stocks of Tar (the by far most important export product of the Ostrobothnia region). This means that it was not the Russian empire (at war against UK) but local people in Finland that suffered because of the Royal Navy burning those storages. Destroying the stocks of Tar in Finnish ports actually attracted lots of negative attention in the UK. A significant percentage of the tar was just waiting to be transported to UK, some of it had been paid in advance. UK was the by far largest import country of Finnish Tar, and it was essential for British shipping industry, including the Royal Navy. The local people that fought the Royal Navy were not just any peasants, but many of them were seal hunters, who had good marksmanship skills. They also got assistance from the Russian soldiers. During the war, there was a optical telegraph system activated along the western coast, so the people in Kokkola had time to prepare and to get reinforcements before the British arrived. My apologies for ruining your great narrative of just a few Finnish peasants kicking the ass of the Royal Navy...

Feeling proud to know. Finn has story

Thank you for telling this story. I went my primary school in Kokkola and our family was living near Halkokari. I new also something about this incident between the British Empire and some men from Gamlakarleby , Kokkola in Finnish .

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

Loving your videos, especially this one!

I visited Kokkola last year and came across that boat in the park. I was shocked to learn the story when I read the plaque about its history. Kokkola is also a nice place and has a lovely, well preserved old town.

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Need to get down there soon!

My ex husband’s family is all from the Navy. As a Finn (well half) this makes me very happy!!

That Halkokarin kahakka is part of The Ålands war wich is Part of Crimean war.

Good topic, which Ireland and Finland shares, is the years of hunger. In Finland 1865-67 25% of the population died due of starvation and deseases. A museum exhibition was few years ago in Ireland to show this dark side of finnish history.

Loved this piece of history, Yayy go Finland!! :) It's very interesting to hear new stories like this, Thanks Aaron.

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

You're a legend Paul, thank you very much for the support ✊🏻

When Irish eyes are smilin’ and the Finnish are smiling on the inside :)

@IrishinFinland

Жыл бұрын

A day had by all ⚔️😎

thanks for the story, never heard that before. Good stuff, keep it up 👍🏻

So you did! Awesome.

Sooooooooooooooooooo much love for this piece of history! Big thanks to @IrishinFinland!

Cool story and video!

Your videos puts smile on my face, always :) keep it up bro!!

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the support!

I think I have commented something like this before on your videos, but I have always felt closeness with Finland and Ireland in historic sense, and culturally there is something very similar in us. There is something about the big bad neighbours that makes us unite... Let us continue! \,,/

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, absolutely 🇮🇪🇫🇮✊🏻

I think there was a meeting where like some English royal visited Finland and met the president and by totally random chance they had the photoshoot handshake infront of a painting made of this event/person involved with this even.

@IrishinFinland

Ай бұрын

Have to find that!

@riku3716

Ай бұрын

@@IrishinFinland it was said in video by "satunnaista sotilashistoriaa" about the battle.

Great video ironically did a history video for this thursday

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Nice one! That's a bit of a different avenue you're taking! Looking forward to it

If you like this kind of a story about the Finns, then you are in for a treat that even most Finns don't remember about our history. In the Russo-Turkish War, when the advance of Russian forces was stopped, a battalion of Finnish guard's riflemen stormed the walls of Gorni Dubnik, a fortress held by 2000 Turks. That major victory made it possible for Ruskies to advance and liberate Bulgaria (and the Balcan) from Turks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Guards%27_Rifle_Battalion#Russo-Turkish_War_of_1877%E2%80%9378 I would also like to hear your comments on our most feared units the "Hakkapeliittas" that took part in the 30-year war.

@Aurinkohirvi

3 жыл бұрын

Thisstory definitely needs to include Plevna, the restaurant in Tampere. Named after the Turkish fortress!

At Kokkola Finns were group of seal hunters with good muskets and marksmanship. Think what Royal Navy Marines with old muskets in a small boats must have felt when musket balls started flying..

Have you noticed that there is now great video about this incident on channel "Satunnaista sotilashistoriaa". It is titled "Halkokarin kahakka".

@IrishinFinland

2 жыл бұрын

I have indeed! Fantastic channel aswell!

Actually i mentioned about this event first in comments to you couple of weeks ago in the video where you talked about similarities between Finland and Ireland., but didn´t suggest to do video about it. Still nice to see that you have took opportunity to use it in your channel.

@ArchieArpeggio

3 жыл бұрын

If you look at back some of our history like you said. This happened with vikings, with english and later with rrussians. Everybody just thinks they can walk into our houses and fuck our sisters but no. It ain´t gonna happen 😁. We have the right spirit as we call sisu (as you know) and we just don´t take any shit from anyone.

English: "Can we have your weapons?" Finns: "No." English: "I guess that means yes." Finns: "Ok kill them all." Later... English: "Can we have our boat" Finnish: "No. Or.. well... come and get it"

@josephinejeffery

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂

I recall reading about some other skirmish with the Brits in Finland. This was during the Swedish rule and the Brits managed to take a fort with little effort as the defending troops were pulled out. Later a single Finnish woman went to the door and banged on it and the British troops thought that the counter attack had arrived and retreated from the fort.

@hurri7720

2 жыл бұрын

Don't be silly, Finland become the Grand Duchy of Finland after the 1808-1809 war. This part of the Crimean war in Finland was during that time, not as part of Sweden. Bomarsund, the fortress fell 8-16 august 1854. Voisit vähän tarkistaa mitä kirjoitat.

At same war the Royal Navy indeed did bomb Oulu. The funny fact, I bet you are going to love, is that Oulu back then was the capital of the Tar trade. Tar was consumed by the sailing boats back then and the Royal Navy was one biggest of the consumers for obvious reasons. So they also bought tar from Oulu and many merchants at Oulu got wealthy by selling tar. There was even a building called Tervahovi (tarcourt) from where this trade was organized. They also had tar barrels storaged there before being sent forward to the buyer. Well. When the Crimean war started the Merchants were not allowed to export their products to the enemies so they had to storage the tar there. And the Royal Navy ended up burning the Tervahovi in their attack. And yes. It was full of tar they had already paid for. Naturally that was a huge economic disaster to Oulu, but still kind of funny story.

NIce! I loved it. Specially as a Finn. You should also do a video of the second time we defeated the british. That time it was the royal airforce in ww2.

@tuomaskokkola1611

3 жыл бұрын

Operation EF 1941 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_EF_(1941)

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Oh shiiiiiiit this story is amazing!

@timoterava7108

3 жыл бұрын

In Liinahamari/Petsamo "we" didn't really defeat anybody - the Germans did.

im finnish but i dont remember i have ever heard of this :D cool!

I've seen the boat, it's on display in a large glass box in a Park. It's big!

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

I can't wait to go down there and see it!

Yuuuuup Finland... cant believe they asked for the boat back too 😂

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Finland like " Naaaaaaah " 😎

@KarynMannion

3 жыл бұрын

@@IrishinFinland be nice if they could give back our 6 counties... no shade 🤣

In fact from those skirmishes in that region Finnish Sharp shooters/ Snipers has the start to their history. as There were many sealhunter who were marksmen and the militia used them with no remorse

If im not mistaken, its the only navy ship thats ever been captured from the british navy? I spent my childhood summers in kokkola so im familiar with it.

Fantastic description of the skirmish. You can always rely on the Irish to have a tiny bit extra joy when the Brits get their butts beaten :D

As the finnish person i am i love this! This was a real treat and i haven't known about this story! :D

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Really happy you enjoyed it!

Finns wrote song "Oolannin sota" about the war that was fought on our shore. Some time later Iron Maiden wrote song "The Trooper", that is about tragic events of Battle of Balaclava. Both events were part of the Crimean War. Though the battle was defeat for Brits, I think that they won the song contest. 😅

@karirytkonen5811

3 жыл бұрын

I must add, that though only the defeats are mentioned here, British were winners of the whole Crimean War, and incident you told is the only notable occasion I have heard that Finns won when Brits ravished our shores. By the way, there is Finnish historical tv-series "Hovimäki", which tells about life of two fictional families, one noble and one poor. Time period is 1798-1907, and there is even "Kokkola incident" you where talking about included. I never watched it when it came from tv, but it seems to be now available in Viaplay.

@Aurinkohirvi

3 жыл бұрын

@@karirytkonen5811 Katso ihmeessä Hovimäki!

@karirytkonen5811

3 жыл бұрын

@@Aurinkohirvi Pitäis katsoa. Ei tule juuri töllötintä katsottua, vaikka KZreadssa tulee roikuttua liikaakin.

Have you done video of Simo Häyhä? He was a farmer...

Finnish expedition met the Royal Navy infantry men in Petsamo district 1918 and needed to retreat after fightings. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petsamo_expeditions

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you sending me this!

@ralepej

3 жыл бұрын

@@IrishinFinland And then it was crazy that next year (1919) Royal Navy had a base on Koivisto on Karelian Isthmus which belonged to Finland that time. Not much about it in English but this is one ship which served there en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vindictive_(1918) There is good book in Finnish which called " Mainio pikku sota"(Excellent little war) about it. Writer is Mikko Ylikangas. Not a well known fact in Finland that British had a base here from where they attacked to Kronstadt which is/was Russian Navy main base on Baltic Sea, front of St. Petersburg, Stalin was the leader of the defence of Petrograd(St.Petersburg) during that time and he didnt forgot.

Queen Elisabeth has been sending every year money to city of Kokkola for taking care of the graves of these Brittish soldiers.

Good stuff. Sounds like Ireland and Åland have some things in common. And if you say Åland wrong theres some confusion.

We kicked the asses of Vikings, Brits and even Russians. Beware the quiet ones indeed.

Very Fkn cool

YASSS I LIVE IN KOKKOLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KOKKOLA MENTIONED RAAAAAAAHHHHHH

Before they attack kokkola. British attack in Oulu and Raahe. In Oulu they burn all tar(terva) barrels that they found. Funny that all barrels have allready sold and paid to british navy. Becouse of that royl navy had serious problems to maintain all the navy`s ships.

How silly of them to think finland would give the ship back considering the brittish museum having stolen stuff from all around the world. Besides, the ship was not stolen but earned in a fair fight they started!

Thanks for your interresting story about our history. If we look back our history probably vikings were there ringing our doorbell. As well as the Swedish king with the warlords recruiting Finns to the 30 year war in Europe. Finland was those days the most east region of Sweden. British and French troops were bombarding Finnish west coast during the Crimean war. Finland was in those days under Russian command. German troops were entering on Finnish soil for a short period of time in 1918. Soviet Union was again at the door in 1939 - 1944. In the time of WW2 Finland was left to fight alone against the Soviet Union. And during the Continuous War, Finland did not get any help from other european countries. And again German troops were in Finland, this time helping us to fight again SU. Due this help England declared war against Finland. Yes - the doorbell has been ringing quite frequently. We have had to fight so many times to keep Finnish land area finnish.

Not just the British Navy, but the French Navy as well :-)

The Brits tried the same at Lexington and Concord. They learned about guerilla warfare, we learned not to store all our arms in one place.

It smells tar at the Halkokari beach even today because in that fight large amounts of tar fell into the ground. Kokkola was famous tar producer.

@tapiosakki2951

3 жыл бұрын

Kokkolassa ei ole tuotettu tervaa koskaan

@Jussi138

3 жыл бұрын

@@tapiosakki2951 käytin väärää sanaa... tarkotin, että tervaa vietiiin kokkolasta.

"You want it back? Come here and take it!"

@riku3716

3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be funny if couple of Brits came and tried to steal the boat using a boat of their own, but ended up losing that boat too.

You would probably really like the stories about Tapani Löfving (Tapani Löfvingin seikkailut) but i couldn't find anything in English. Perhaps your lady can help you out with it...

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, I will note this for sure!

@pystykorva7114

3 жыл бұрын

@@IrishinFinland Just to satisfy your thirst towards good stories ;)

Please talk about the winter war with Russia. The best sniper in the world was Finnish

Finland just keeps on saying no to invaders fr

Around that time 400 royal marines tried to storm fortress town of Hamina and got their asses kicked, again.

I live in halkokari

I'm a Finn, and even i haven't heard this stuff🤣 cheers mate!

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

No problem at all Ville 🤟🏼😎

@yoretabio4537

3 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, many do not know who was our enemy in 'Lapin sota' 1944.

Hi there! I'm very amused with your video. I am a history freak and I live in halkokari a few hundreds m from the monument. On the outskirts of the battle ground. I'll contact you private in case you want to visit and I'll show you around.

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Arnon! That would be wonderful 👏

Everyone always trying to come here to take something from us. And always failing!!

Aaa yes... The legend of Finns continue, I like it. This time those pesky heathens honorably defended what's theirs. But wait! '' 'Ey got them boats those bloody Brits!'' and boat belongs to the forest (you know, made of wood and stuff) and such was the tradition as a worshippers of wood and rock to restore the holy boat back in the woods

Sort of off-topic here, sorry, but you gotta try "swamp soccer". Oughta be an olympic sport! I personally haven´t tried it, but some mates of mine have. Hard AF, they say. But fun.

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

That will be a great video for a reaction! 👍🏻🤟🏼

I did know this story. I'm glad you used the word skirmish because that's what it was. As a Finnish person it does give me a chuckle to think about it. A small group of peasants "won" the mighty British navy. To me the important part of this was not the capturing of the boat, but that basically a bunch of uneducated, poorly armed people decided to fight against what must've been an incredible looking navy. I've visited Kokkola and the boat. Pasi

@Aurinkohirvi

3 жыл бұрын

Well, in fact the Swedish and later Russian navies were not small either. Both included hundreds of ships in the Baltic Sea. It's not like there was no tradition of having big navies in the Finnish shores.

@hurri7720

2 жыл бұрын

Why do you call them uneducated. This Crimean war is from around 1854. "The predecessor state of modern Finland, the Grand Duchy of Finland, was part of the Russian Empire from 1809 to 1917 and enjoyed a high degree of autonomy. In 1863, taxpaying women were granted municipal suffrage in the countryside, and in 1872, the same reform was implemented in the cities. In 1906, Finland became the first province in the world to implement racially-equal women's suffrage, unlike Australia in 1902. Finland also elected the world's first female members of parliament the following year.[5][6] Miina Sillanpää became Finland's first female government minister in 1926.". United Kingdom 1918 (partial),1928 (full). And regarding education: " Compulsory school attendance based on the Prussian model gradually spread to other countries. It was quickly adopted by the governments in Denmark-Norway and Sweden, and also in Finland, Estonia and Latvia within the Russian Empire, and later England and Wales and France.". "

@6758pasi

2 жыл бұрын

@@hurri7720 They weren't educated as soldiers. And what happened 50 years later hardly has anything to do with this battle. Although women achieving full voting rights in 1906 is worth celebrating, it also should be remembered it that it was more or less an accident. None of the political parties at the time were interested in granting women vote.

@hurri7720

2 жыл бұрын

@@6758pasi , not an accident, a trend not that hard to grasp as half the population are women and girls went to school just like boys. It's actually "fun" to see how pieacemeal those rights where given and of course first only to vote for men, except in Finland.

Russians had the same experience after the two wars they had with Finns in 1939-44, although in much larger scale. Finns took a huge amount of spoils from the Red Army. After the war we had the Soviet Commission in Finland sniffing around and they insisted to see some depot. Well, that happened to be a depot for some spoils of war, Red Army tanks and other stuff. The Russians were however more proud than the British - They just walked through the depot ignoring totally what they saw. Nothing was asked or commanded to be returned and in fact the Finnish Army used that equipment during many years after the war. I heard this story from my late father who was one of the Finnish guides for the Commission.

@grimmreaper3241

3 жыл бұрын

Proud? Ylpeinäkö ne siellä käveli?

Return!? Why? Never.

My family are from Halkokari :) this shows how awesome us Finns are

Suomi on aina taytynyt pitaa puoliaan yksin enne n ja ehka nytkin .Itsepainen kansa .Siksi Suomi on viela itsenainen .Can you translate this /?????

@riippumatonlinja

3 жыл бұрын

Finland had always keep its side alone and maybe now, stubborn people. Thats why Finland is still indipended. Oleppas hyvä.

Me: they are *never* gonna get that boat back! *Some minute later* ..and the brits actually asked to get the boat back! Me: OMFG they actually thought they'd get it ever back?! They thought that? After whaT THEY DID?

I guess you are not from north Ireland then🤔

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

Nope 🇮🇪 we would like our counties back though, maybe one day ✊🏻

@captainchunk8488

3 жыл бұрын

Makes sense now that my grandmas family got gradually pushed out from the north to the south of Ireland before immigrating to America. They just blame it on bad potatoes.

Not a good idea to tell Finns they must do something or give up something.

Never touch free mens property

if you make story's about The Winter War, you will quickly get allot of wives on your channel sense Finns are sou proud about that. Although the internet has already allot staff about that.

:D

I know why. I'm Irish on my father's side. England stole a chunk of Ireland called Ulster essentially just because they wanted it. The English have a habit of taking on people they really shouldn't. 1916 my friend, 1916.

@MalkWilliams

3 жыл бұрын

Well... They stole a chunk of Ireland called "Ireland", to be more precise! Ulster is a part of it that's still in the UK. Although I suspect not for that much longer.

@Son-of-Tyr

3 жыл бұрын

@@MalkWilliams "Six Ulster counties became Northern Ireland, a self-governing territory within the United Kingdom, while the rest of Ireland became the Irish Free State, now the Republic of Ireland."

@MalkWilliams

3 жыл бұрын

@@Son-of-Tyr Yes, they did. But that was after around 900 years of British rule in the whole of Ireland. Northern Ireland is what remains under British rule after the Irish took the rest of it back.

@Son-of-Tyr

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but It wasn't consistant british rule for 900 years. Uprisings, rebellions, wars, assassinations and the like happened nearly the entirety of that time. So when the Irish finally got the entire country back the English decided to keep Ulster, and that's why and when the IRA formed.

@Son-of-Tyr

3 жыл бұрын

Theft is theft.

Was Winston Churchill ther boss ?? (He was a Marinminister at the time ?) ;)) Mayby not, for he (PM)wanted to help Finland against Ruskies in Winter war !! But F-Sweden say NO ! SoB's ;)

@randomnukke546

3 жыл бұрын

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Dude you need to learn some more history, man

@IrishinFinland

3 жыл бұрын

I'm in the process of doing so