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@Jodonho

4 жыл бұрын

WTF? KZread is only good for cat videos and conspiracy theories. What does KZread have against factual information?

@patrickweber3954

4 жыл бұрын

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@anadaere6861

4 жыл бұрын

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@bigboy3332

4 жыл бұрын

Wtf , that's so stupid, fuck what they think ,you guys make awesome videos

@patrickweber3954

4 жыл бұрын

Ever think about moving to Bittube? It a new website like KZread without the censorship.

For those wondering why everything is called "something-järvi". Järvi is finnish for lake. And we have a lot of lakes

@KristianKumpula

4 жыл бұрын

And for those wondering why they sound so weird is because every single one of the names was thoroughly butchered by the voice-over.

@erikskelton6597

4 жыл бұрын

Does Maki mean hill? I live in northern Minnesota and am half Finnish myself, and my grandparents were Maki's and I was told one it meant hill. Just curious.

@59Lemony

4 жыл бұрын

@@erikskelton6597 Yes, but it's Mäki

@appleciderhorror12

4 жыл бұрын

@@erikskelton6597 mäki = hill

@neiloflongbeck5705

4 жыл бұрын

Is there an Eitoinenjärvi?

You know you are fighting a war in Finland when your objectives are lakes instead of hills, towns and villages.

@jakkeledin4645

4 жыл бұрын

No. They fighting heawily for hills. Lakes are in this case areas names.

@snowfox-xc1qq

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@BringTheRains

4 жыл бұрын

They call that Minnesota too

@ioaalto

4 жыл бұрын

Mökki, sauna and a lake. What else does one need?

@nikjoh06

4 жыл бұрын

@@Radbot776 Finland's not in Scandinavia it's Nordic but not Scandinavian

Finns make a bad attack plan: Troops call it "the idiot's nudge." Soviets making a bad attack plan: Troops call it just another tuesday.

@ghillieguy52

4 жыл бұрын

Soviets: "first time?"

@carpetclimber4027

4 жыл бұрын

@inc.opt.63 To an absurd cost to the poor Russians who were treated like street dogs in the army.

@akman1947

4 жыл бұрын

Or the call it the purge 😉

@akman1947

4 жыл бұрын

B Whit right cause the Atlantic wall was just a little haste defense nothing serious. Or hurtgen forest you know the Siegfried line.

@useodyseeorbitchute9450

4 жыл бұрын

@@greyd.99xsome Embarrassing, when think that they started with Soviets on the same side.

Soviet Union: Nooo, you can’t just flank us and cut us off while we make a frontal assault. Finland: haha, ski board go woosh

@mabussubam512

4 жыл бұрын

Soviet Union: Haha another division from Ukraine goes uraaaaaa

@soldat2501

4 жыл бұрын

MABUS SUBAM haha, Finnish artillery go boom!

@aikhomolius4112

3 жыл бұрын

@@mabussubam512 haha, motti goes ratatataa.

@AatiNiiranen

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaah suomi machinepistol goes ratatatatatatatatatatattata

@moisuomi

3 жыл бұрын

@@mabussubam512 Yep until that Ukrainian division is commanded by a terrible Soviet general and loses its whole division to a few farmers on skis 😂

I can't help but mention and praise the impeccable animations and the high quality information Kings and Generals always provides, very nice work.

@KingsandGenerals

4 жыл бұрын

Appreciated

@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329

4 жыл бұрын

@@KingsandGenerals what video editing software to you use?

@KingsandGenerals

4 жыл бұрын

@@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329 Blender

@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329

4 жыл бұрын

@@KingsandGenerals jeez that's awesome 😮😮

@jounisuninen

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Great animation, indeed. A Company Commander, my father was fighting against Red Army in the Winter War and he also fought in the Continuation War.

My grandfather, Giorgi Katsitadze (I was named after him) was a member of the Soviet Army. Many Georgians were drafted for this war. Gladly, he survived and passed away in 2010. He was telling me the war stories. As a kid, I remember he mentioned that Fins were a fearsome fighters, especially at night with knifes. He was a "badass" man but was carrying the pieces of bullets in his body during his entire life. He was saying that this was a "gift" that not to forget what the war is about.

@ottomartikainen1579

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I wonder if there are any books documenting the experiences from soviet soldiers during this war.

@aransin167

4 жыл бұрын

What did your grandad think of Stalin?

@unusualsuspect4043

4 жыл бұрын

@@ottomartikainen1579 Has to be. I'm sure there is but I don't know how accurate it is due to Soviet propaganda.

@unusualsuspect4043

4 жыл бұрын

@@aransin167 Even though he was a military man during that time, he was no fool. Frankly, he was telling me that the regime was terribly harsh and simply deadly under Stalin. Who can forget their relatives and childhood friends who were killed or exiled in Siberia simply for no reason. He was born in 1918, that year Georgia grabbed the opportunity and became independent again but unfortunately freedom was short-lived.

@unusualsuspect4043

4 жыл бұрын

@Leopoldus Carniolus only for some people who really don't know real stories about him. I'm a Georgian, personally for me (and of course I'm not the only one) he was the embodiment of evil.

Talvela attacked and counter attacked an enemy superior in number, better equipped, with armoured and air support and vastly more modern and numerous artillery. Not only did he succeed, he succeeded with a fraction of his enemies’ casualties. That is something special.

@kohtalainenalias

4 жыл бұрын

Paavo Talvela & Otto Skorzeny would have made quite a team

@thabomuso6254

4 жыл бұрын

Talvela was a great general and his troops were excellent. that is one side of the coin. The other side of the coin is that the Soviets did just about everything possible wrong and in a terrible way. Much can be said about the Winter War, but I suggest that you read about it in depth and you will understand how the Finns, often quite easily, could hold out against such seemingly overwhelming odds.

@ShadowSumac

4 жыл бұрын

@@thabomuso6254 Soviets favorite tactics was to throw soldiers at enemies, hoping that they've run out of resources to fight.

@arystanbeck914

4 жыл бұрын

It is not anything special. Just a good use of the right moment. When you fight from the defensive position you always have upper hand. Soviets in that area were on the offensive and were too far from their initial positions and had no supplies, no defensive positions, therefore couldn't hold there for long.

@maxkennedy8075

4 жыл бұрын

Thabo Muso Oh yeah, you could write a book on all the reasons the Soviets sucked during the Winter war. Hideous duel command structure where officers share duties with a jumped up politburo ideologue, the great purge, Brown and green uniforms in the snow, lack of skis or training, terrible logistical planning where whole army corps are supplied by a single road causing chronic food and ammunition shortages, very poor troop communication with other formations, poor comms to artillery and air support, complete lack of motivation for the soldiers to fight (vs Fins defending their homeland), nonexistent infantry/armour coordination, vast overconfidence combined with bad planning for the conditions. Yeah, that’ll do it. And by ‘it’ I mean ‘get you put on the hot seat by Stalin as to why you were incapable of beating a country who’s population NOW is smaller than a modest sized city’.

Everybody gangsta till the snow starts speaking finnish.

@janoycresva1930

4 жыл бұрын

Everybody gangsta until white death makes everybody shit their pants in terror, but i guess it kept Russians warm for a second there

@rubensphenolasetiawan3689

4 жыл бұрын

everybody gangsta till the trees start speaking vietnamese

@tisFrancesfault

4 жыл бұрын

Everyone's gangsta until the Soviets still annex 11% of your country.

@janoycresva1930

4 жыл бұрын

@@tisFrancesfault yeah after that you gotta invade Soviet Union

@aleembaksh1880

4 жыл бұрын

Everybody gangsta till the Russians start freezing to death in the winter.

Mad respect to the Finns for defending their land against impossible odds.

@Romkosss

4 жыл бұрын

It wasn't a standard war between 2 states. It was a war for survival. Soviets would have sent half population to concentration camps.

@RyoKasai25

4 жыл бұрын

@@Romkosss For real. Finland remained independent and free of the soviet rule. Can you imagine if they lost, became annexed, and had the same treatment as Ukraine?

@JoeyVol

4 жыл бұрын

.. Finland ALLIED WITH NAZI GERMANY! That's why they were threatened at all in 1939..! Not something anyone should be proud of.. I'm certainly not.

@topiash5437

4 жыл бұрын

@@JoeyVol I don't think Finland was allied with Nazi Germany before or during the winter war. You're spreading misinformation

@JoeyVol

4 жыл бұрын

In the interim they tried to run to Britain and even presented them with the same terms of a defensive pact that Britain had offered prior to 1939. Too bad for them that these defensive pacts are useless once you're already at war... NAZI Germany could have never gave their sphere of influence to the USSR at all if they had signed any one of the multiple defense pacts offered to them by the Allied powers prior to 1939 because Germany's main goal was to expand it's territory without going to war with Britain.

I had a friend in college whose grandfather was Finnish and fought in this war. Afterward he emigrated to the U.S. and then Pearl Harbor happened and he got drafted. However, the army officials had so much respect for Finnish soldiers that they let him choose what job he wanted.

I absolutely love studying this war. My admiration only grows more and more for the Finnish people, the more I learn.

@evrensaygn1017

4 жыл бұрын

This is the story of resistance against all odds against you. I am not Finnish but this inspires me.

@1982382

4 жыл бұрын

Nice but, the Finnish People today wouldn't stand a chance against a Russian army or any army these days. Very politically Correct with no backbone & or Spine.

@texset5815

4 жыл бұрын

I see... one of the comments is written by russian spineless spy

@DennisBerg101

4 жыл бұрын

@Águila701 Indeed, Afghanistan is called the graveyard of empires for good reason

@Torag55

4 жыл бұрын

@@DennisBerg101 That is a myth. Afghanistan was always conquered by other nations that include the Iranians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, and some others. It was never a 'graveyard' of empires.

What seems to be missing from this narrative was the Soviets dependence on the fFinnish roads. Lakes, bogs and dense forests bordering these roads , created narrow corridors and choke points that limited their advantage in armor and continually interrupted their supply lines. The Finns kept cutting up their long extended columns into small piece meals, stalling Soviet advancements over and over.

@ericsarnoski6278

4 жыл бұрын

This allowed the Finns to easily concentrate and maximize the effectiveness of their limited artillery by focusing it along these limited avenues of advancement.

@Ingeb91

4 жыл бұрын

It's almost like attacking a forest with a shit ton of bogs and lakes is extremely hard to do.

How many troops you want to invade this small nation? Stalin: Yes.

@MrLense

4 жыл бұрын

Stalin: Task your crew Soviet Generals: How many? Stalin: How many do you have?

@SERBIA1389SERBIA

4 жыл бұрын

This is lake when you Mad in game and send all trops and lose all :)

@wjzav1971

4 жыл бұрын

@@SERBIA1389SERBIA Ugh, reminds me of Civilizations when I send in my tanks (with general) against their musketeers, the game predicts a 95% chance of victory, and then I loose.

@TheBacknblack92

4 жыл бұрын

@Axios .king they won on paper. Realistically it was hugely humiliating and their losses here made germany believe the soviets were weak. This led to the breaking of the non aggression pact and ended up costing the lives of tens of millions of Soviets. How you win matters more than simply winning when facing a vastly inferior opponent. They werent able to use the stuff they did win with regards to their original plan. The Germans still ended up surrounding leningrad and finland chose to remain relatively neutral simply because mannerheim believed hitlers position was more dire than they were being led on If the US attacked mexico and we ended up losing millions of troops and thousands of tanks and planes while mexicos losses are comparably light. Well it doesnt matter if we eventually complete our objectives. No one would expect mexico to beat us, but if we look super weak attacking mexico then itd send a message to russia and china about our capabilities

@horacecunningham7832

4 жыл бұрын

@@wjzav1971 always hate when that happen in civ 4, the changes in civ 5 fixed that

From a Greek, respect for the Suomi.

You can't just reference something called 'The Sausage War' without going into detail. I had to google it :D

@zenfonedavid4466

4 жыл бұрын

not the "sausage" i imagine ,right? damn 9gag ruining my common sense

@cyrilchui2811

4 жыл бұрын

American called it Hamburger, although 30 years later

@jounisuninen

4 жыл бұрын

The Sausage War was actually a battle where the attacking Russians managed to thrust deep into the Finnish flank. They were however starving and when they found a Finnish field kitchen they stopped to eat. That had the effect of partly spoiling their attack.

@Zoey--

4 жыл бұрын

@@jounisuninen Then they got bayonet charged...

@xananymous431

4 жыл бұрын

I search the "sausage" war.. It shows me a different type of "sausage" war!

What a resistance put up by the finish against an enemy much larger than them impressive and heroic

@Brandon0406

4 жыл бұрын

@Jose Raul Miguens Cruz compare the casualties on both sides and you'll see that it was a humiliating defeat for the soviets. In the end, all they did was lose thousands of men and important equipment for a bit of land that really wouldn't give them any advantage at all. If the soviets would have actually won, they would have annexed finland or made it a puppet state.

@ArmaFennica

4 жыл бұрын

@Jose Raul Miguens Cruz Oh dear, ye have some gaps in yer narrative there. I'll help: "first the soviet union was on the winning side." >Take a look at the casualties, losses and met goals. In that context, Soviet Union did really not win. "Two, the armistice was asked by Mannerheim once the finnosh army was rendered incapable of sustaining more combat operations," >Mannerheim was a military leader, NOT a governmental power. He did not ask. -Also, the Finnish Field Army was still in the field, not capitulated and had not surrendered. "the mannerheil line was deep behind the soviet front lines." >And? The VK line and VKT line were made just in time, as the massive Soviet Army was able to crack the vaunted Mannerheim line. (which was far less impressive than anyone thinks) "It was Finland that waa forced to transfer more territory than have ever the USSR dreamed of," >Soviet goal was to conquer the entire Finland. So, no. "and after the defeat the USSR didn't have to keep its initial proposal of exchanging territory with finland, so all those commodities producing chunks of soviet territory as the mines of Petchora wete kept under soviet control." >All the territories would have been under Soviet yoke. And loss of Karelia brought massive famine, the main reason why Finland reached out to Third Reich. "It is true, however than, Voroshilov made a disaster of his military operations but once Timoshenko assumed command he was unstoppable." >He made poor plans because he was instructed to make such plans. -Tymochenko simply threw massive amounts of manpower and fire upon Finns, how very ingenious.. "He jaggernauted the finnish army and in 1944 it took the USSR 10 days to cripple the finnish army." >Now ye jumped into the largest battles of all Nordics?? Battles of Tali-Ihantala were actually the only Soviet strategic offensive which failed. Once again, the goal was to break the lines, conquer all of Finland. It failed and Finnish Field Army was still in the field, and making some counter-attacks as the armistice was signed. "If I'm not wrong when the finns in 1944 they had less than 50 artillery pieces left. If I'm not wrong the Petrozavodsk strategic offensive of 1944 left the finnish arnynon the verge. Sad but true my friend." >Well, ye were terribly wrong. -It's OK to be misinformed, but quite another to have such hubris while being so wrong. Cheers.

Russians; Never attack us in the winter FInnish: hold my beer

@kirgan1000

4 жыл бұрын

Its hard to fight Russia, but it can be successfully done, all like to point out Napoleon and Hitler, but always forget the Imperial Germany victory over Russia 1917....

@dannyarcher438

4 жыл бұрын

@@kirgan1000 you mean during the Communist revolution? When entire battalions deserted? And Russia was on the brink of Civil war?

@kirgan1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@dannyarcher438 To inflict enough losses on the enemy to erode the enemys will to fight so he surrender, is a common way to win. The same thing did happen to Imperial Germany 1918, but thanks to Germany surrended in "time" the state was sufficiently strong to win the German (limited) civil war.

@desmondd1984

4 жыл бұрын

@@dannyarcher438 A big instigator to the Russian revolution was disastrous defeats on the battlefield against Germany. The treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ended the war on the Eastern Front, had a lot of humiliating concessions to Germany.

@nikjoh06

4 жыл бұрын

Well the Finnish didn't attack the USSR it was the other way around.

My grandfather fought in this war. He lost all his friends.

@tariver1693

4 жыл бұрын

My grandmother's brother fought in this war too, lost his foot to a Finnish mine. He told stories about hardships as cold weather and lack of food. Still got recruited during WW2, to drive a horse cart.

@affentaktik2810

4 жыл бұрын

This is a horrible war to die in cuz it was completely useless and nonsensical and never had to happen

@deluca1031

4 жыл бұрын

F for respect

@Sipunak

4 жыл бұрын

@@affentaktik2810 for the soviets, yes, for finns it was dying to save our nation. They are well respected heroes.

@jengaaaaa

4 жыл бұрын

Mine too 💪

For those wondering what the Sausage War was, it was a Soviet attack that pushed past the first two lines of Finnish defenses. the Finns gave the area up and retreated, leaving a lot of equipment behind, including a full field kitchen that was in the middle of cooking a sausage soup when they had to abandon the equipment because of the oncoming soviets At this stage the Soviet soldiers had been under supplied for a good week, surviving the harsh winter on meager rations and when the push sent a battalion of Red army soldiers through the field kitchen setup, the smell of the cooking soup became to irresistible and soldiers began ignoring Officers shouts and demands of them continuing the onslaught as the unpacked their messtins and began eating. this respite allowed the Finns to regather their local forces and eventually surrounded this Red Army battalion, leading to over 2000 captured Red Army soldiers and the local area being reclaimed by the Finns

No joke, I cheered up when the Finns started to win their counteroffensive.

@Ingeb91

4 жыл бұрын

The few times in history the soviets lost, are like warm memories to me =) *Fond helicopter noises*

Finland is Russia’s Russia. A country you expect quick and easy victory over, only to get bogged down in the winter and destroyed.

@Mark-kr5go

4 жыл бұрын

And the video specifically mentioned that the Soviets were having trouble with the cold and frostbite lol

@almightybunny3320

4 жыл бұрын

@@jason4275 They didn't lost! In the end after continuation war finland lost karelia, salla, petsamo and pay compensation. Cold war period finland had very open relationship with ussr and soviets were most important trade partner with finland.

@almightybunny3320

4 жыл бұрын

@@jason4275 I don't think soviets care much about finland, they only want to make some parts of finland a bumber zone against rising nazi empire! After the war finland and ussr made yya treaty which state both nations could help each other if someone invaded them and it also boost the trade so relationship become a warm one. Finnish president kekkonen who had longest presidency after the war and who kept wires his hands almost whole cold war period also had very close relationship with soviet leaders so i don't think there was any cia conspiracy our part, though we had many politicians and other public figures who worked foreing intelligent but mostly stasi because they recruit specially younger people as we find out when stasi files became open! 70s many young activist admire soviet system, others just didn't want to make russian bear angry again but anyway finland just try to keep very warm relationship both sides best they could!

@timoterava7108

4 жыл бұрын

@@almightybunny3320 Incorrect. The USSR indeed wanted to conquer ALL of Finland. The talks about a "little buffer zone against the Nazies" were total BS. After the war Finland had to make a treaty with the soviets. Naturally we would have preferred not to.

@johnbloom1109

4 жыл бұрын

@@almightybunny3320 Explain that to all the dead Russians that were killed by the fins and the fact that Finland is independent of Russia.

Can't wait for the battles around Suomussalmi.

@jonbaxter2254

4 жыл бұрын

What if we used lakes to kill tanks? Yes...

In my family though we’re not Finnish we had 2 family members who left the US and went to join the Finnish people in the fight against the reds and I’m proud of them

@2009Infidel

4 жыл бұрын

Well done, and thank you!

@andrewlancasterimpressionist

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a fascinating story. It would be nice if you could give us some more.....

@formatique_arschloch

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing. As a Finn I feel gratitude towards those men.

@thesouthernhistorian4153

3 жыл бұрын

@@formatique_arschloch agreed my friend even though I'm American I would help anyone who's nation is under attack by a tyrannical government such as the rotten reds in Poland and finland.

@formatique_arschloch

3 жыл бұрын

@@thesouthernhistorian4153 In democracy and our home we believe and fight for it.👍

these guys fought like true spartans, that's impressive !!!

@jxclxc8830

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I hope we will continue improving our army, we are too much behind Russia in quantity, we had luck of USSR to be at bad condition as Stalin killed his generals

"Snow in mouth, hiding his breath He is steady at hand"

@jonbaxter2254

4 жыл бұрын

In the distance, Sabaton...

@TheSnarkyViking

4 жыл бұрын

The greatest sniper in history was Finnish and fought in this war. Simo Hayha, the "White Death" they called him

@superdog1964

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheSnarkyViking Yeppers! This dude was bad ass! He used a regular Mosin Nagant rifle (Actually, a Finnish made copy- M28/30) and iron sights. He was known to crawl through and lay in the snow for long periods of time, take his shot, jump on his skis and then get the hell outta' Dodge. He was hit in the face by a Russian "exploding' bullet that supposedly removed half his jaw and put him in a coma. When he came out of it and read his own obituary, he sent a letter and corrected them! He tried to fight later on and was forbidden because of his injuries. They don't get much tougher than this guy!

I always enjoy these so much. The Finns fought gloriously.

I love me some underdogs kicking ass... Respect to the Fins!

The Winter war or "the 105 days of honor" as we call it in Finland. Stalin thought that the war would end quickly. We know this, because when Finnish soldiers searched the pockets of dead Soviet officers, they found tickets to the victory parade that was to be held in Helsinki.

@vanukas8783

4 жыл бұрын

MrHakis who calls it the 105 days of honor?

@TheRomanRuler

4 жыл бұрын

@@vanukas8783 Well it usually is called winter war, but "105 kunnian päivää" is used every now and then as honorific of sorts. I don't think anyone primarily calls it "105 days of honor", and i don't think MrHakis meant to imply that.

@otom20

4 жыл бұрын

@@vanukas8783 You must be quite young if you need to ask that.

@vanukas8783

4 жыл бұрын

otom20 oh? Really?

@jerichidalgo63

3 жыл бұрын

Russians failed tho

"The Finns were less perturbed by the cold." *knows how brutal the Russian winter has been historically* WTF are the winters like in Finland? o_o

@rikuvakevainen6157

4 жыл бұрын

The red army had expected easy victory so their winter supply lines were not made for a long war. The red army had hoped to crush Finland before freezing mid-winter strikes the red army with full force.

@spidermine7075

4 жыл бұрын

from what i heard the soviet troops where from the southern parts of the nation, also that winter was one the coldest in recorded history.

@rikuvakevainen6157

4 жыл бұрын

@@spidermine7075 it's true that some units were from south like infamous 44th division in Raateroad which was from Ukraine. And it's true that the winter was cold. The story tells that in winter 1939-1940 even Venice's canals were frozen.

@jussikankinen9409

4 жыл бұрын

No snow in Helsinki but 2 meters in santa claus land

@ioaalto

4 жыл бұрын

Cold

Proud to be a finn ❤️🇫🇮

@MikkelBondeStouby

4 жыл бұрын

And you have every reason to be. You guys are highly reveered for it here in Danmark. Wish we could have done the same.

@ioaalto

4 жыл бұрын

@@haraldsigurdsson1232 yes

@davids5126

4 жыл бұрын

@@haraldsigurdsson1232 LoL your entire army would surrender quickly to the Soviets, just as it surrendered to the Germans.

@davids5126

4 жыл бұрын

@@haraldsigurdsson1232 The funny thing is that the Norwegians, as complete fools, wanted to help others, but no Scandinavian country helped Norway when it was attacked. Sweden supplied the Wehrmacht with iron ore and made good deals with the Nazis, while Finland was their ally. Only England came to the rescue.

@SiGRecon

4 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Tunisia.. I've always admired that resistance against the red army and the bravery of Finnish soldiers including my favorite one: the white death Simo Hayha ❤

The snow speaks Finnish... *”PERKELE!”*

@nhienleminhhue6605

4 жыл бұрын

Well, the Soviet won the war so I don't think that joke is that funny anymore

@dotboy9080

4 жыл бұрын

​@@nhienleminhhue6605 but for what cost...

@ventolus2068

4 жыл бұрын

@@dotboy9080 at the cost of not smashing your Ass to pieces like they did to Germany. They were kind to your nazi Ass.

@atsstaaatsssatss4501

4 жыл бұрын

@@dotboy9080 cost of replaceable soldiers and equipment in exchance of 11% of fingolian land which finns will never get back

@MrLense

4 жыл бұрын

@@nhienleminhhue6605 The US also won the Tet offensive..

As a Finn, thats the first time I've heard anyone call that war a "desperate" defense. Despair did not prevent our country from being invaded. Perseverance, bravery and Motti-tactics did.

I admire the Finns and respect their tenacity and protecting their country from the Communist horde of the Soviet Union.

Yes!! The Winter War is one of the greatest and most interesting conflicts of World War II 💪

Wow, the Finns really fought tooth and nails for their land (and yes, I know the Soviets were starved, freezed, etc.) but you can easily see many times where other armies would just simply retreat and give up but they didn't.

@josephmcbloggs8447

4 жыл бұрын

Ussr was jews not Russian and didn't care about the losses

@kalevi5814

4 жыл бұрын

If everything is on stake as it was it's just better to die trying than die in some soviet camps.

@arttuhamalainen507

Жыл бұрын

This must be tough In the freeze

@Maysti87

Жыл бұрын

should have stayed home then.

Soviets: Nooooo you can’t just use Motti Tactics and soldiers armed with sub machine guns to divide and conquer with overwhelming close in fire. Finns: Haha Suomi go brrt

@tyrian_baal

4 жыл бұрын

Finland: Noooo you can’t just put in a competent commander and win the war on your terms Soviets: Haha, offensives go brrrrr

@tyrian_baal

4 жыл бұрын

Totuuden Puhuja Finns: Noooo you can’t just defeat the Germans and make us fight a war to kick them out while also taking even more of our territory Soviet: Haha Soviet Red army go zoom

@lookingforsomething

4 жыл бұрын

@@tyrian_baal I'm glad you are so proud of your totalitarian past. Either way, Finland remained independent of the tyrannical dictatorship that is USSR. That's a major achievement in and if itself.

@skirmisherfront1498

4 жыл бұрын

@@lookingforsomething I second the bravery of the Finns holding out against impossible odds.

@2009Infidel

4 жыл бұрын

@@Feffdc Fvck off Ivan!

As Xerses had learned several centuries earlier, an army of slaves fights poorly.

Russian commander: it’s -25c just hold your ground. Finnish commander: *laughs in snow*

I have over 20 books just about this war, some in English and a few in Suomi, and I want to thank Kings and Generals for highlighting this little piece of a war that many know nothing about. This was not WWII, although many thought it was. Jumala siunatkoon Suomea. Kaveria ei jäteta.

@tobiasbremner9623

4 жыл бұрын

What book would you recommend we start with if we want to learn more about the Winter War and Finland's fight against the Soviet Union?

@vanhasuden1044

4 жыл бұрын

@@tobiasbremner9623 Finland at War The Winter War 1939-40 by Vesa Nenye, Peter Munter, and Toni Wirtanen. This book is a great start to learning about Talvisota. Great pictures so the reader can actually get an idea what was going on. Another is The Hundred Day War by Gordon F. Sander. Deeper reading,, but chock full of information. From these 2 books alone, you can get other books, via the footnotes, to dig deeper. But, if the authors have a Russian name be advised that they will shine a bit more light on the Russian war effort.

@tobiasbremner9623

4 жыл бұрын

@@vanhasuden1044 Thank you for the great recommendations. As a history enthusiast this will make for great reading.

@vanhasuden1044

4 жыл бұрын

@@tobiasbremner9623 And as an enthusiast, these will definitely get you going. There were books written in the 50's, books about American foreign policy, books that seem similar, but have different points of reference, books that will make you feel like you were in the many battles, books about Finnish tactics, and if you are lucky you can find the Holy Grail of books by finding a book on Simo Häyhä, which the last time I saw it on line, sold for over $1600.00. I have 2 books on him, written in Finnish, and took me forever to translate. But were awesome and worth the time.

@timomastosalo

4 жыл бұрын

For Finns it was the WWII. And for Stalin it was connected with his thoughts on Germany. He was a suspicious mind: killed so many of the political and military leaders, so he didn't trust Finland to stay neutral, but allow German forces attack through it's territory. Well, no German troops during Winter War. In the -42 counterattack, yes. So, it is WWII - it just makes the picture more complex. Like also how Soviet Union and Germany split Poland, though Poland was supposedly allied with France and UK. Guess they just knew they didn't have the strength to help. After the Winter War started, the USA, France and UK had some discussions that Finland should be helped, and before the war in the 30's UK and France had given some promises to help Finland. But I think the didn't want Soviet Union as their enemy, since they were anticipating German attacks. But some American Finns joined Finnish army, and UK did send a small voluntary force, was it a company or a few, or a battallion, don't remember. But they spent most of their time adapting to the winter, didn't learn to ski well - and finally they saw action as ambulance drivers.

Imagine how World War 2 would have played out had the Finnish been given 1000 M1 Abrams tank and 1000 Spitfires.

My god it must have been so hard for the general of fins to make a strategy to defend a extreme wide battlefield with limited troops

Simo Häyhä, Belaya Smert "The White Death" approved this.

@Torgo1969

4 жыл бұрын

"Hundreds of kills, a man and his rifle Embodied the Sisu of Finns"

@IvanKala

4 жыл бұрын

@@Torgo1969 more than 500 to be exact.

@Torgo1969

4 жыл бұрын

@@IvanKala Yes. I have some Finnish clients and I think of The White Death when I see them. Simo is immortal in our hearts, in all of us that resist Bolshevism.

@IvanKala

4 жыл бұрын

@@Torgo1969 real number was around 505. Respect

@Erikhedoulo

4 жыл бұрын

Is there any movie made on Sumo hayha?

"The Finns were less perturbed by cold" - I think that sums it up nicely.

Gotta love the quality of these videos

Soviet: *Attacks Finland* Simo Hayha and Mannerheim:So You Choosen.....DEATH

Those Finns... Well, they did give us the Molotov Cocktail (by name at least).

I think the title is misleading. It should be "The Red Army's desperate attack against Finland"

Great video K&G's as usual, excellent new series, keep up 👍🏼

I've become a patron so i'm early

Thank you for these amazing videos!

Without a doubt my favourite KZread channel brilliant content and narration thank you for existing

Finns are our brothers. I'm proud of them.

@sectorgovernor

4 жыл бұрын

Ural-Altaic

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

@@sectorgovernor: The Altaic hypothesis hasn't convinced the majority of linguists, let alone any larger superfamily like Ural-Altaic.

My grandmother was born in the Karalian region and she evacuated back to Finland during this war, and she met my grandfather, so if this war never happened I would never have been born.

This is a very done presentation, thank you.

Earned a subscription from me! I've been to Finland and viewed many of their maps and battle plans in the museums on the island of Suomenlinna. Awesome people

Keep making these videos! Screw the demonetization, you guys are awesome!

13:20 The Soviets used counter attack! It hurt itself in confusion!

@pressando

4 жыл бұрын

What kind of pokemon are you? How do you do the things you do...

THX KG ! Very intense & action packed ! Your vids just keep getting better !!

Simply amazing. Thank you for your dedication 💙

I loved this video. Part of my ancestry is from Finland. And I was doubly impressed with how brave n audacious the Fins were. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

Those Fins are tough! Love it.

I think you made accurate and unbiased presentation. Even pronunciation of finnish names was correct and visuals were great! Thanks!

An excellent overview, clearly articulated and beautifully animated. Thank you Kings & Generals! I would love to see more of those little news clips; reminds me of that classic post-war documentary: World at War.

The world war 2 channel has also followed the Winter war week by week. Defenitely suggest everyone to check it out!

Respects for Finns! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I love this channel. Amazing work. You deserve many many millions of subs. Thank you thank you

Your videos are so intruding that can't be resisted can't wait for next video

Russia: You can't defeat me in winter. Finland: Hold my snow.

@sectorgovernor

3 жыл бұрын

Finnland: I am the winter

“General Frost, you’re engaging friendlies!”

very well made episodes, the scandinavian and finnish fronts is a mainly forgotten part of the 2nd world war,but highly important. hoping for an episode of the Continuation war also. Keep up the good work.

Another epic war! Thanks to Kings and Generals 👏👏👏

So Stalin you invaded finland? Stalin: -yes And what did it cost? Stalin: -yes

Soviet army: " send in the T 34 tanks" Flying Finns: "get me my skis"

@Romkosss

4 жыл бұрын

T34 not created yet at that time.

@MJKDESIGNer

4 жыл бұрын

@@Romkosss Soviet Army "T 34 not invented yet... oh crap, send everything."

@Kopyrda

4 жыл бұрын

@@Romkosss I knew that and it always made me wonder - what's the meaning of the number 34? It's not the weight, not the year of production, and not even the year of initial designs, I think. Is it because of the engine? Kharkiv model V-2-34 .

@timomastosalo

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kopyrda Maybe the year the plans were approved and patented. Think the 1st models were ready 39 or 40. I don't think it's a wonder a new model talkes 5-6 years to make functional. Tanks were a very new techology yet. BUT: the designers of T-34 made a ground-breaking work - their designing principles are behind every functional tank design after that. They designed the ideal model for the time, and the following models of every country after WWII has followed the basic platform of shape, tracks, speed, suspension, armor. Of course new developements followed later, like the explosive armor enhancements, and all the electronics. But the principles of the hullwork: low as possible, slanted surface if possible, weight distribution, powerful gun -but sensibly: not extremely to hinder movement, rate of fire, balance, weight.

@jussikankinen9409

4 жыл бұрын

No most finns hate skiing and like disc golf

I just started watching your videos and I have to say they are fantastic

Terrific script, narration and graphics. Thanks for posting.

Cool new intro, K&G - I likes!

Just like the Vietnamese against Mongols and U.S., the Finns had an advantage of the mastery of their environment.

@nymalous3428

4 жыл бұрын

Well, to be fair, when the Vietnamese were fighting the US, they had the backing of Communist China. Further, they would retreat into Cambodia, which prevented the US from pursuing and destroying it. The Finns, on the other hand, did not have a "neutral" country to retreat to, and did not have a super-power behind them, they were on their own.

@thesauceman8457

4 жыл бұрын

On paper, the North Vietnamese were losing the war, but they held out long enough to break America’s political resolve and public support for the war.

@Stego1819

4 жыл бұрын

Except that the soviet army sucked at that time while the mongols and the US had by far the most powerful military forces at their time.

@themiddlekingdom9121

4 жыл бұрын

@@nymalous3428 and military equipment aids from both the PRC and USSR. You are correct, the Finns didn't have anyone helps them at all, they fought against the USSR alone.

@joukopeck

4 жыл бұрын

Vietnam had Soviet Union and China helping them ( proxy war)

I'm loving that the channel is going to such detail into fairly minor part of WW2 that only lasted some three months.

@2009Infidel

4 жыл бұрын

And i'm loving how an idiot (you are either a Russian or a pantywaist Swede) can't see the significance of a tiny badly armed nation of barely 3.5 million people, holding its ground and humiliating an aggressor with a population of 170 million people, and probably the most powerful military of its time. In comparison France, a well-armed country of 40 million people fell in six weeks.

The quality of animation gets better with each new video. Thumbs Up!!!

19:18 “The Sausage War”? I’m sorry, what?

@liampetersen7548

4 жыл бұрын

Da frek

@59Lemony

4 жыл бұрын

The hunger stricken soviets got distracted by sausage soup, forgot the battle and started eating. Because of that they lost when the finnish counter-attack came

@liampetersen7548

4 жыл бұрын

@@59Lemony those poor bastards

@thomashaapalainen4108

4 жыл бұрын

@@liampetersen7548 ehh screw em. My great grandfather and my grandmother lived in Agläkärvi at that time.

@altaccount80

4 жыл бұрын

Wait did u Mean 1918's war?(WW1)

THE Finn's are a NOBLE RACE, They fight like "HELL". BRAVO!!!!!

I needed some material for a presentation that im making about this war. I watched the video and made the presentation with this information. Got A. Thank you!

An outstanding video as always.

When snow starts speaking Finnish jokes incoming.

Both Soviets and Nazi made a mistake of underestimating Finland. Even after the Winter war wermacht wasn't impress and decided that Soviets lost only because they were weak. Well no. They lost cuz Finland were strong.

@ultimatefriikki

3 жыл бұрын

@Kürassier1806 The Finnish army doctorine is to make an attack too costly to be continued, we are aware that it just isn't possible to hold the lines forever. So mainly it's just inflict as much damage as you can, fall back, harash with small units and artillery, repeat.

Thanks for sharing the knowledge, 🇬🇧

Great work in making these videos.

7:10 Too cold for the Soviets? Just another day for the Fins! :)

That moment when winter works against the Soviets.

This was Awesome!

Been away for some time because of university, glad to see you have maintained your videos quality, if not improved. =)

finsk sisu i all ära. the Red Army paid dearly for their "victory"

The Germans: Never try to invade Russia in the winter The Russians: Never try to invade Finland in the winter

@dmitrijikharev2841

4 жыл бұрын

Ummm. Russians actually won.

@AutomatikBalalaika

4 жыл бұрын

@@dmitrijikharev2841 Strategic win yes but losses were enormous and Soviets didn't occupy Finland.

@mathias61

4 жыл бұрын

@@dmitrijikharev2841 What did they win? Huge amount of fallen Russians and a little piece of land. I wouldn´t call that a win ;-) Stalin made a huge mistake...

@chrisleo841

4 жыл бұрын

Fuck stalin for bullying Finland is not the fair contender but with GOD'S HELP SOVIET COVERDS WAS LOST, BRAVERY SAMO YAHYA

@dmitrijikharev2841

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisleo841 You, Sir, with God's help should attain some English, or any other language, literacy. Then read a few books. You know, the ones written by real historians rather than your brothers in sharing the one brain cell. And only then I would consider posting anything in public fora such as this. Comprende?

Been watching these videos for three days straight while trying to do the tactics in HOI4 and total wars. One of the most entertaining channels out there

amazing video series!!

Tanks:exists Wooden logs:Hippaty hoppaty I gonna jam your tracks

So ridiculous how educational content about basically anything not wholesome gets demonetized, wouldn’t you want to reward educational content?

A fascinating study of this zone of the Second World War. How on earth do you get all that information into an understandable and clear video? Deserves a medal.

Love your videos K&J but the newest ones are so detailed with individual units that it takes away from the overall campaign/battle energy. I love your work, and will remain a loyal fan, but can you consider showing a brief description as you have before in the battles of antiquity (First video you made was still the best - Battle of Actium!!)