I hope it’s worth it. Because it is for me.

A kiss...😘

Sure @Kings and Generals 😘

These long videos are so awesome for traveling!

Thanks Kings & Generals. Hope you can make videos on the Wars Between Kingdom of Thailand(Ayutthaya), vs. Kingdom of Burma. Or the Kingdom of Thailand (Ayutthaya) vs Kingdom of Vietnam.

Yeah that was funny I just got to the part of the video.

I stopped the video and scrolled down to look for this comment. Also, the whole part with russian tanks stop working and soviet soldiers dying of cold really feels like the best reverse uno card against the soviets. The finn's out sovieted the soviets.

Finnish him

true story, it was so dark u could hear them before u see them

I dunno man these Pine Trees are speakin Finnish

Happy kitty

Truth.

You don't watch for free. There are commercials. That's your fee

Fiiinlaaand

@@ulflyng4072 pretty sure the videos are demonitised, youtube dont support war related contents

"except the mongols"

Yeah pretty sentiment but complete bullshit 🇲🇳

@@TonyBustaroni no, it didn't.

​@@TonyBustaroni worked for the russians too.

lIKE uKRAINAN HEROUS

only for them to throw it all away with the Continuation War

@@SkyeEditing sure but through the whole Cold War they manage to steer a steady path of neutrality which kept the Soviet Union from invading them again.

It's the Finnish way to do things...

@@SkyeEditing I see it differently. Continuation War gave a chance to take back what was lost in the Winter War. It was about 14% of the area of Finland, 2nd largest city, Viipuri, and the "right arm", the Petsamo area with it´s mines and the access to Arctic Ocean with the only port there. Whilst we didn´t get our things back, we didn´t lose much more with it, apart of the human cost, which is always the case with war. Yet Finland stayed independent and out of the communist hell. Of course, now the EU, Chinese Communist Party, globalists in general etc. are trying to bring new communism, painted eco-green. This fight is probably not with weapons per se, but all freedoms are at stake.

@eqw alle As far as i know finnish KIA losses in Continuation war were 64 000. Soviet losses were 200 000 (but it against Wermacht troops in Arctic also)

Beautiful

@@EM-tx3ly Couldn't agree more

Caucasus need to learn from Finns

@@EM-tx3ly lol, could not agree more

With Putin in charge ..... no chance but after him perhaps lol Putin wants to be a Czar not the President and Czars are for life

Btw this is the only monument in Russia dedicated to the winter war

Unfortunately, if memory serves right, Nazis actually cited the winter wars as a reason for breaking the NAP with Russia and are often considered to have been allied with the Finish. They went so far as to even nominate three jews from the Finish army for the Iron Cross. ( declined by the Finish, of course ) However, anyone who claims the finish were Nazis or even all of the German army were made of Nazis soldiers doesn't know what Nazi stands for. Nazi was a name given to the members of the National socialist Party. A lot of the soldiers weren't party members and similarly, there were commanders who did not adhere to the party membership, politics, or even ideology, in fact, it is debated if even Erwin Rommel was a member of the Nazi party or not.

Was a soviet, not a soviet. Was a nazi, was not a nazi. Reminiscing about such past things helps no-one. Only thing they might do is relight the candles of hate. Some things are best forgotten... I Have met many Russians in my still rather short lifetime 32 years. All very nice lads. I consider them brothers of North.

@ Алексей П I’m not excusing the slaughter in Vyborg or the really bad treatment of Slavs during the war. However, ”Western propaganda” doesn’t talk about how of the 10-30 million people Stalin murdered, the Finno-Ugric people were hit probably the hardest. 25,000 Ingrian Finns were killed, and their population was small in the first place. Stalin liquidated at least 80% of the Finns living on the Kuola peninsular by execution in the forest or in gulags. He even killed the Finnish communists that fles Finland after the civil war. Also what do you mean by agression in 1941? Finland punished the Soviet Union for trying to conquer it unprovoked and took more land. Was it wrong that the USSR conquered half of Germany (and would have taken all of it if the Western powers didn’t come)? Germany didn’t even have a substantial Russian minority, Eastern Karelia had many Finns and was inhabited by them long before the Slavs conquered the area in the middle ages. Finland refused to even cut the Murmansk railway or go into Leningrad, so this agression sounds funny. Finland also didn’t actively participate in the siege of Leningrad; the reason why the Finns were North and North-East of Leningrad was because they had built their greater Finland for strategic and political reasons. If Finland hadn’t done this, they would probably not have stopped the Vyborg-Petrograd offensive in time on the VKT-line in the summer if 1944, leading to Finland’s destruction. Remember it was Stalin who started the conflict with Finland while cooperating with Nazi Germany and it was him who ordered the civilians to stay in Leningrad, refusing surrender. I won’t even talk about Soviet war crimes. Neither side is innocent, both commited war crimes. But there’s no question which one was the agressor.

Petrozavodsk* Not Petrograd

Häyhä. His surname is Häyhä. And love back from Finland! 🇫🇮❤️🇵🇱

@@mariasirona1622 Not everyone has ä and ö on their keyboard :)

@@mariasirona1622 When will you realise that not everyone has öäå letters? wake up

Poland and Spain. Somehow my two favorite European countries since childhood. And still are.

@@cally2984 there is ä and ö in every keyboard, not as a one button but as two upper dot with alt+shift+that button (not exact, dont remember, with a smartphone know :) ) and after that press 'a' or 'o', and ä or ö will appear. Same with German 'ü'. Lack of understanding and learning the use of keyboard is beyond me, I've known that told above since 2001. And our households internet connection was up 2003.. lazyness of people.. gg.

Tell that to Erdogan

Sweden-Finland tried to ally with Turkey 1709

As a south african with boer warriors as some of my ancestors, respect to turkey's warriors during their war of independence in 1922 , what a brave fight !

Russians

Real Russians don't deny the evil of the communist regime...

kova

@@Lancia444 You're wrong about that.

@@ZahrDalsk @Sayuas No true Scotsman...sorry I meant Russian...would ever deny the evils of communism.

I actually read that in Bane's voice 😄

@@Cortesevasive not really if they had just signed the Soviet treaty they would have just given up their strategically defensive positions without a fight and would be defenseless if the Soviets ever tried geting anything more out of them( look at what happened to the Baltic states). The way the Finns fought showed to the Soviets that anexing Finland wasn't worth the cost and effort. So while the Finns still lost the territory the Soviets wanted the war helped secure their independence.

@@arijao92 True. In the narrative and on the map darkness does not become apparent. On the latitude of Suomussalmi in mid-winter there is four hours of daylight, four hours of twilight and 16 hours of total darkness.

@@Cortesevasive If Finland had lost the war, then Soviets troops would've had a victory parade in Helsinki as planned. There would also have been the Kuusinen puppet government sitting in Helsinki.

Losing 10% of the land of the land and 1/3 of the economy is not a victory

Great gun, great gun maker

They are all Russians. Mostly so called "Kremlin bots". They are paid workers of Russian goverment and their job is to propagate pro-Russian disinformation.

Until Erko's envelopes remains untouched and only those whom can see them, are not allowed to speak about them in public, I am giving the benefit of a doubt that the war was *arguably* possible to evade. Then again I also question the need for war, was Soviet-Onions government so easy to offend that they'd wage a war over one idiot in important job? Or was it inevitable because there was some need for war. Can't never know truly, we can only speculate.

becoming a Nazi ally of course doesn't put any blame on any government, does it? and yes, i'm mostly Russian. partly Polish. and no, i do not support the government of the Russian Federation, and i consider it to be the main enemy of the people of Russia. i'm afraid they won't pay me for that. but that doesn't change history.

@@jan_kisan Dude, you joking? You Ruskies have been better friends with Germany between 1939-1941 than all the Axis states have been. Did you forget that the so-called defensive pact you signed gave Russia free hand to grab land from all surrounding countries? In return, you gave invaluable raw resources to Germany which kept the German Army running up until 1941.

@@jan_kisan thats all very rich considering Molotov just signed the pact with Ribentrop a couple of months earlier, at least do a factcheck, before spewing bot arguments like Finnish Nazi, Finnis bad. Fact is the Finnish tried to avoid this until the very last moment and your people, like most times in their history forced this war , so that they can gain territory.

@@johndoe5432 It took about 50 years to get them out of eastern Europe.

@@johndoe5432 "they fought the nazis so they must be good guys"

Russia lost around 12,000,000 soldiers killed and 18,000,000 civilians murdered (mostly non Jews, the worst unrecognized Genocide since the Mongol and Imperial Japanese invasions of China) upon the Eastern Front in less than 4 years and so where are their Holocaust Museums? The squeaky wheels get oiled with sympathy and money, the silent wheels dont, in denial.

@@michaelbruns449 Propaganda my g Thats how it works... They talk about a particular incident enough because it serves them a specific purpose and ignore other incidents + they never mention the war crimes that they commited

Goes to show also the character right there, doesn't it?

President Kyösti Kallio was already sick during the war and died from heart attack in December 1940 on his last day as president. The stress took its toll.

Yeah one breakthrough and Your army could collapse

@@Hallstat72 im purely watching this because im related to Kyosti

President Kyösti Kallio on hearing soviet attacked across the border "Gunpowder them" "Ruutia vaan" (Not direct translation as it is impossible in english) Edit: he actully said "Kruutia vaan" which is the same but with more "countryside" dialect, and he actuslly said that as response when the President of the Republic Kallio and Commander in chief Field marshal Mannerheim entered the Presidental castle and adjutant major asked how Finland would respond to the challenge. Challenge being the full scale invasion that started that morning.

@@davisbizarreadventure448 Thats cool.

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OIKEIN !

First time I’ve seen this, cool.

Мой прадед герой. Сражался в Советско-Финской войне 1939-1940. Вернулся живой, дожил до 1982. Я живу в Санкт-Петербурге, у меня остались некоторые вещи от прадеда, старая бритва и шинель.

Take care, We dont know the outcome of the war, but one thing is clear= Russia is NOT winning. The forrests are speaking ukrainian, and no Russian is safe.

Russian ancestry including ethnic substrat of Mari Merya Finn Karelians and other fenn SO FINLAND is PART OF RUSSIAN MIR , I'm russian yhaplogroup I1a nordic, but have uralic and slavic ancestry also When time comes we will retake our lands in Finland

Proud of my ancestors

For being a Finn myself, I find the Ukrainians skills and motivation while fighting against the Russian aggressions a great example not for us but the whole world. We will stay beside you. Slava Ukraini!

@@zte2196 keep dreaming

He wanted to take part in continuation war, but he was refused due to his wounds. God knows how many kills he would've got.

Simo Hathaway

What's even more amazing is that he did NOT use a scope on his rifle. He said t hat a scope could give away his position due to sun glare on the lens.

@@vilzupuupaa4680 Continuation war was basically Finland trying to take back their stuff. Sad that Finland didnt get to keep that part of Karelia..

@@bicepbrah8179 yep. It was rightful Finnish land.

Lol

lol

Yep, there seems to be a pattern. In despair, regroup, name it Task Force "Whatever", and it'll be just fine.

@@samirantanen707 i think the main reason why they keep calling it a task force even in small numbers is because its made up of mixed outfits like policemen, marines, airmen, navy, coastguard and army which they hastily group together to make a combat unit.

@@jansandman6983 ...Farmers, tailors, smiths... you there, judge, take the machine gun. The reindeer will provide close air support. Got it?

That's a piece of history.

1965? That book is one year older than my dad XD. Should I read it?

@@Saunakiuas06 That's when I got the book. It was already used at the time. If interested, I still have it and I'll get the publishing date. Let me know.

Was it by Roy J Snell published in 1940?

Fly golf is finns men sport, pink fly golf cause sknny fish lines cannot play soccer

We will hold you to that promise. The wars are not yet over

actually like this one, well done

A lot of the Soviets were Ukrainian though.

@@weirdofromhalo It's just a joke. Don't over think it

Outpizza-ing the Hut, Finland Edition

@@weirdofromhalo looool is that how russians justify this embarrassment?

A man who made money trading the myth about himself, while his country lost territories and paid reparations to the USSR until 1955.

@@kalsarikannit2058 what fucking money? wtf are you smoking? he fought, he killed, he did what he was told.

@@NaumRusomarov It's a troll, don't feed it.

@@jbdbean242 the man lived the same lifestyle before and after the war, he didn’t gain much more than any other guy who fought for Finland, so why would he lie about it

with explosive round left side on the face

Mannerheim is a legend

:DDDD

This was really good watch

@@mikaelmilnikov ?

*TORI KUTSUU*

@@canadianmmaguy7511 Yes, the last sausage party I attended was also ended by a Finnish surprise attack.

@@canadianmmaguy7511 lol so true.

@@canadianmmaguy7511 but strange to see finnish gays in tel Aviv

@@canadianmmaguy7511 How coincidental coming from a Canadian, the gayest country in the world.

@@denniswilkerson5536 Sweden: Am i a joke to you?

Hey im also canadian! And my grandma's family is also from Finland! They moved to Northern Ontario just after WW2.. 🇫🇮 🇨🇦 👍

❤❤

@@Piss-Poor-Infantry Wow... my grandma is Canadian and I'm finnish. She lives in Toronto and I visit Ontario and North America every two years

Hey I'm a Canadian too and I love and will support Finland 🇨🇦❤🇫🇮

This is complete nonsense. Visit the Senate Square in Helsinki and have a look at the monument in the centre of the square. You may think about why it there. Also you should learn a little about Finnish history if you claim your root in Finland.

@@DoctorJ_TTV they were allowed to exist. Just like Japan. But There was a literal line through the middle of it for almost half a century with different governments controlling it

It really helps when you have been skiing since you were 5 year old and hunting since you were 12 year old 👍

@@DoctorJ_TTV what were the allies supposed to do, stop as soon as they got to germany's border and let the nazi regime survive? lmao

True, but they also had had help with a difficult terrain. The dutch tried for 5 days but would soon run out of ammo, and surrendered due to terror bombing. Though russia bombed Helsinki for instance, it was not the same as for instance Warsaw, Rotterdam or London. But true, the Finnish are a gritty people with no true love for mother Russia!

Hopefully America can resist the communists. The current "resistance" is actually the established power... so, the only thing theyre resisting is our continued freedom.

How exactly are communists stealing your free dumbs?

@@Cortesevasive And accomplish what? Most of the people left to countryside, military high command was in Mikkeli and parliament was in Kauhajoki. Also finnish anti air was quite effective against Soviet bombers.

@@Cortesevasive They actually tried multiple times, but Finland used a strategy to fool them and it worked. Basically, during an emergency all lights were cut off from the city, and huge bonfires were lit somewhat 20km from the city center in a place that wasn't inhabited by almost anyone back then. During winter, there was sunlight only for a few hours, so the Red Airforce dropped all their bombs to the place where they saw lights. Also anti-air positions in that area made them believe that Helsinki was there.

You will have the courage, like our fathers used to have. Slava Ukraine. From Finland!

The same to you fellow ukrainians. You are the second country to beat sh!t out of your country! Stay strong! Heroyam slava! Heroes will be never forgotten!

Ukrainians fighters have the same spirit my great gandfathers had in winter war, you will be as successful as Finland was Slava Ukraini!

Looks like everyone needs to fight to break free from Russia. You're doing great job over there buddy, prosperous years are coming after the war

I think Putin read Stalin's diaries and mistook them as war tactic manuals. I wish lots of strength and victories to you Ukraine! Regards from Finland.

You too will be accepted into Nato..

Ukrainians were Soviets and Ukrainian troops fought in the Red Army. You're a clown

That is true

@@myamericans1112 what did you just say? I'm genuinely confused, you start talking about how Canada apparently saved Finland's economy then you start talking about how some Canadian Finn's (sorry I mean CANADIAN) decided to fight for Finland and that somehow that's a bad thing. I mean that's what I picked up from that jumble of words because that sure wasn't the best built sentence I've ever seen. I just don't understand the "I am sorry" part or the consistent full caps Canada or the point of sending that, like I'm talking about how I am grateful for what those soldiers did and you're talking about how Nokia is Canadian and that it's a bad thing that Canadian Finn's fought for Finland. Like what's up with your tone man?

@@myamericans1112 I'm still just confused what the point of that reply was

@@myamericans1112 Wtf are you even saying? why are you telling me this? I'm so confused man. Like please learn how to write. It's literally just meaningless words stuck together with the "I support the Russians next time." put at the end. I mean ok. Cool, but when?

@@thepickle5214 that dude is so embarrassed he deleted his comment lol

they had german equipment lol

@@v3ger273 nope

@@v3ger273 Eh.. nope.

@@meryatathagres1998 for a start the finish officer has a hugo boss uniform

@@mipecio legit google says that a large portion of finish equipment was bought from germany 🤣 u clown

@The Spicy Russian No

@@rihc3584 No? Yes id say. Why say otherwise, it means Finland is a hard to beat enemy

Sisu is why they fought against overwheming odds. Look it up its a awesome part of Finnish culture!

@Connie Springer HMMMMM

This video is mustering all finns from across the world.

I heared about youtube first back in 2012 and started to watch videos back in 2014 with starting with some minecraft videos I enjoying to watch as 10 year old and I found this channel back in 2019 and been enjoying watching his content once in while.

@@jout738 yeah

@Ralis Sedarys 1) the difference in manpower between germany and yugoslavia wasnt as big as the one between soviets and finns 2) the geography of the balkans is better suited for defence that said however, yugoslavia definitely deserves a mention. 💪🏽

@Ralis Sedarys Yugoslavia was conquered, Finland was not conquered.

@Ralis Sedarys The same incompetent enemy that also managed to defeat Axis in the eastern-front by themselves mostly.

Greece?

Just because no one really gave a shit about it

An underdeveloped country whose economy is solely based on raw materials and fossil fuels + a desperate need to be feared and respected superpower + a culture that has no respect for human life whatsoever = a recipe for disaster.

@@karelianmghow9095 and they've been baking that bread since at least Peter the Great

@@jeremiahlynds3465 I'm glad you mentioned Peter the Great. Many look back to the Soviets but I think you have to look at Peter the Great's reign to understand modern Russia. Peter did many things that later rulers would mimick.

@@fartknockerR17 good thing the intentional extermination of Ukrainians wasn't what I was referring to... Also if Russia's action are what NATO are indeed adversarial against, so be it.

@@jeremiahlynds3465 Peter the Great. Ivan the Terrible. Anatoly not Great not Terrible. (a.k.a. Dyatlov)

why do people to this day still speak of the history channel.. last time I was on the channel I must have been like 15 years old and now I'm 27.

For a while, they did lose the war in the end

As Pegazin said Finns repelled the invasion till the end of ww2. For an underdog That is a victory, not a defeat.

@@deathbyastonishment7930 Yah obviously, but look at the casualties of the Soviets compared to Finland.

@@deathbyastonishment7930 Finland never surrendered, there were peace negotiations!

@Grin Akuma I’m not a nationalist so I’m not sure why it would matter, but I’m from Australia.

You're wrong, it wasn't surviving communists. It was surviving an attack of a stronger army. And that's the thing small nations have always done, in Finland we have a millenia long history of it, starting from Novgorodian chronicles.

You should start reading Marx, Lenin and Mao, when PRC come you will need it

🇹🇼👍🏻 🇨🇳👎🏾

Too bad winterwar was brutal but we live in 2020+ now wars are much more brutal :/

Thanks I really like to hear ppl supporting finnish but the ukraine one just why? What did ukraine even do??

Then the radio was jammed with Säkkijärven Polkka, and it's a goodbye for Soviet troops.

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 Säkkijärven Polkka aka. Boss Music for Finland level of the world conquest game.

And my axe

@@ilmarisarjakoski7166 and my bow.

Thank you for this I rlly enjoyed it !! Hope ur having a good day

Soviet aggressor*

@@Cortesevasive Finland at this point was fighting almost alone against the biggest military power in the world who had made a pact with Germany that seemed like an alliance. That alliance made Germany stop help from certain parts of Europe from reaching Finland in time. Also Allies were backing Finland in it's fight against the Soviets and told Finland that help will come and that made finnish leaders continue war longer, but when finns realised that help is not coming and Allies are trying to get Finland continue their war for the benefit of the Allies who could use Winter war as an excuse to invade Norway and Sweden and stop iron deliveries from there to Germany.

@@oskariharmanen3412 of you read Churchills memoars it stands clear that the idea of sending say 40-50 000 soldiers to Finland was just an excuse, the real target had been to take control over sw iron mines. But they had not enough troops with winter training and eguipment. Look at French Legion at Narvik: some of the alp rangers had new skis but forgotten the ski bindnings...

@@Cortesevasive I hate those who commit holocaust as much as those who commit holodomor😉 Luckily Finnish people defended themselves against such a tyranny.

@@Cortesevasive Also I never heard any crime commited by Finns against jews or homosexuals or Romanis which makes German-Finn alliance cyclical not ideologic.

Russia fought 11 times with Turkey - and only with the help of Britain & France Turks managed to win once)

Линия Маннергейма их и спасла. Больше ничего.

Finland knew. Lost meant sure death in the Siberia work camps. Finnish was also stiff farmers and hunters nothing like todays fatties😁. Country is also full of forests and lakes roads were very tiny. Stalin had murdered own commanders before war. But maybe that winter war saved Russia they got time to improve before gentleman called Adolf began operation Barbarossa.🙂

@@mappermapperovich Salty

Around 35 minute mark on the video is the area where my great grandfather fought too 🙂 Tolvajärvi-Ägläjärvi.

@@trumpjongun8831 My grandfather too.

Mind-blowing, isn't it?

Don't forget Mark Felton.

@@Caldera01 Kings and Generals for epic battles, and Mark Felton for curious stories often forgotten.

I mean it is bad ass, but extremely sad. There is nothing but sorrow in the idea that so many were sent to die because of the greed of Stalin and his ilk. Most of those people didn't need to die on either side. I hope this will not repeat ever aganin.

"The Soviets barely gained enough land to bury their dead."

So I liked for you, it's brilliant.

@@youarealwayscorrect 🤔🤔🤔

@@DoctorJ_TTV Russians had allies then. Aka the Allies of Great Britain and USA. So while its true Russians lost most during WW2. Working together was overall in the benefit overall. Russians fighting Finns shows how they arent as tough as they try to show in autocratic fashion in modern Russia. Lack of civil rights and human rights is main reason why i am not pro autocracy which is what Trump base and Putin followers are into

@@DoctorJ_TTV Meh, think an invasion they would lose more. Reason why eastern Europe even went to NATO is because Russia was doing their own ethnic wars in the 90s, and obviously fearing they would be next. So obviously trusting autocrats is hardly smart.

@@DoctorJ_TTV Well i am unsure if i should waste time, 5 subscribers, no videos. Troll farm account have somewhat less. But i will bite. Vietnam war you could atleast criticize in USA, tell me how autocrat countries deal with it again?. And in the end USA lost that war it was highly unpopular. I could go on about the other wars (not sure why you included Iran, i mean if you mean the Coup d etat in 1950s, then yes i would agree, replacing a Democracy with a puppet friendly to the west i agree was not ok). But again i rather take civil rights, human rights over a place you cant have any of those.

This wiseass just copies my popular quatation from another video

@@user-xg6ol9rb9g Stalin, is it you?

Wow, I didn't know he ever said that, but that's awesome to get a compliment from your former enemy. 👍

Did Stalin actually say that?

@@enderreaper1482 From a short research it seems he indeed said this.

Most people under cannot ski now

it depends what you mean cause russia is soviet union soviet union is russia they just changed from communist to capitalist plus finland went from being part of russia to being finland

@@randomchannel-ze2cw I'm pretty sure the Soviet Union broke into several countries, think the Baltic nations and Central Asian Republics that didn't exist till after the Soviet collapse

@@randomchannel-ze2cw LONG LIVE INDEPENDENT POLAND AND UKRAINE!

@@theawesomeman9821 literally,Soviet union's Southern borders was touching the Northern India's border which is southern most country in Asia. So Soviet union must be huge country consisting huge manpower same as China & India back then. Britishers tried hard to keep their jewel( Indian Subcontinent )out of the hands of Soviets before giving freedom to india.

Ultimate revenge

Well to be honest that is kinda what we've always done for Sweden ☺️ I mean back in the day when Sweden fought all those wars with Russia it was Finland that was on the front line with Finns fighting for the Swedish crown (Finland was a part of Sweden for centuries)

Finland was indeed rather poor and broke at that point, between rock and a hard place. Don't know how they figured they could pull this off, it seemed pretty impossible given the resources. Finnish leadership must have been well informed and understand the odds by understanding the political climate in both finland and soviet union, the strategic value of the terrain and weather and make everything work in their favor and prepare the tactics and positions meticulously. And they were right, soviets although certainly having some competent leaders who understood the situation, were in disarray for many reasons.

@@FINNSTIGAT0R Barely. At peak the Swedish army consisted of 1/3 of Finns. Youre talking sh*t

@@marcusaurelius3487 When the war was fought in Finland, Balticum or Russia, Finnish troops played bigger role than their percentage of all kingdom's troops. When wars were in Sweden and Denmark, the Swedish troops played bigger role. I've seen numbers that Swedish era wars did to male population of Finland, and it was ugly. Those generations lost relatively much more of their numbers, than the generations of these modern wars.

​@@FINNSTIGAT0R It was not so much the Finnish troops that stopped an invasion of Sweden from Finland, but the landmass itself; Finland got invaded and almost fully occupied in 1713, 1742 and 1808 - despite this, Russia never launched a full scale invasion of Sweden from Finland. Why? Because they simply couldn't feed an army of that size, required to successfully occupy Sweden, over such scarcely populated lands. Their only option was, pretty much, from the sea, but the Swedish navy (sometimes with aid from Great Britain) rendered this close to impossible. Of course, with the logistics of today it would probably be possible, but not so much back then.

We do. According to studies Finland is one of the most patriotic countries in Europe, with the absolute majority willing to put their lives on the line if there would be an armed conflict. We keep our veterans in very high regard. Very high.

I'm from sweden and gotta say there's nothing like hearing the finnish people swear and curse. They can put up a helluva fight, partly because the Swedish empire was so successful was because of the badass finns backing us. Proud of my brothers to the east. Stand strong, we Scandinavians have had our past troubles but no one has managed to conquer a unified Scandinavia so far(mostly thanks to you finns)

it is definitely noticeable how patriotic they are. their veterans are extremely respected, sadly every year there are less and less of them, "soon" there will be none.

Yes these heroes were allies of nazi Germany back then, responsible afterwards in starving millions of people in the blockade of Leningrad and setting up concentration camps in Karelia. Very tough people behind multiple trenches, barbed wire, concrete bunkers, machine guns, manned by artillery, instructed by foreign officers and financed, supplied with weapons. Lets not forget the meters of snow. Try to find an army who would break these lines. Yes, they broke.

@@The_OneManCrowd nah, the guy is just poorly informed(actually, propogandized) about actual matters of that blockade and the true causes of those starved to death. And his crying about defenders setting up proper defense - man, that's is a prime example of his(and folks like him)utter stupidity)))- According to his "logic", finns should have fight on a plain field with their bare hands )))))) It's like, cmon, why do you resist, how dare you shoot back to us, we bring "peace" and "happiness".....)))))))))))))))

We are stubborn.. very very stubborn.. as Stalin said in the end.

Accurate.

How the hell did the Finns survive with no fires and no shelter? It doesn’t seem possible.

@@Smoove_J simple. They didn't. They had those.

@@Smoove_J They had tents with fireplaces. Also they were familiar to wear many layers of clothes when it's cold, keep themselves moving to maintain warmth of muscles and protect their feet, hands and face from frostbites. Skill that Finnish mothers taught them when they were children. That time, most Finnish men were used to do lumberjack work and hunting in winter, when farming works were impossible to do.

as a finn i know that there where also voluntary fighters from estonia so respeckt to that also

Hey Esto's went to Finland to fight the commies... as did Finns come to help us. Proosit!

​@@drdelewdedYes, but the outcomes and history is now very different. Fact is that finns can be proud of their history and that makes being patriotic easy too i can imagine. Estonians, lets say me who wants to be patriotic and proud to be estonian have to fight really hard with all the influences that say here just give up go to finland or somewhere else to the wide world, because its not worth it and grass is greener and we are small doomed nation anyways, here ill show you that history confirms it. My brother is in usa, my relative is in finland, my friend is in canada and who hasnt gone jet is talking how they want to go. Getting harder every day to justify why i even want to be patriotic or be proud to be estonian, whats the point if so many just dont give a damn. At least i have an answer in gym if somebody asks me "bro who hurt you" 😂

@@guigtargh9534 No idea how you went so sideways on this. Im Esto Canadian and have USA citizenshit.. which is where Im moving to.. But Ill always be an Esto.. And considering its History, Esto has done pretty good in the last 20 years. Prosit, I need to go back.. I haven't been since 95 and 97

@@drdelewded Ok perfect. First do you speak estonian? Second were you born in estonia grew up here? If not then its impossible to understand where im comeing from. Not to talk about you then, for example my brothers children will never be estonians, because they will never speak even the language or know the feeling of growing up in such a small country with that history. Yes estonia has done relatively well in seartain aspects, but not in integrating the 30% slavic leftovers who dont give a damn and that magnifies the feeling of wanting to leave this place that has such a divide. I had the opportunity to follow my brother to usa, but i believe that estonian can be in home only in estonia, only here i dont have to justify why im here. Sorry, but you become estonian by growing up here or at least liveing here for long time and knowing the depressed dark jokes that only we understand🤣 Sorry had a shitty day😉

Indeed, the Finnish Tank Corps back then was practically non-existent.

We will never forget these brave men from our beloved neighbour countries, who volunteered for helping us in Winter War. 8260 men, 12 fighters, 4 bombers, 10 other planes from Sweden. 725 men, 12 pieces of artillery, teaching our pilots with 6 training planes, some rifles from Norway. more than 1000 men including some fighter pilots from Denmark. not to mention those Estonians, who deciphered the encryption of Soviet radio transmissions and transmitted the information to Finland. Respect from Finland, forever. We will not forget your help in our almost desperate situation.

Your great-grandfather did not repeat the mistake and put on a good show in the sequel of this Winter War though, even took to the sky on the Finnish behalf. Wasn't the air battle of Continuation War the cradle the flygvapnet was born?

None of the Scandinavian countries had a real choice unfortunately. Norway, Sweden, and Finland were wedged between two super powers.

@Grin Akuma oh yeah, no doubt Scandinavia tried its best to defend themselves. I was just saying in terms of politics and treaties, they had their hands tied.

@Grin Akuma ah, i get ya 👍

@@lolnoobus while that is mostly a joke, we cannot underestimate the consequences of the war. Nordics would likely be communist, the germans would not have been so cocky during barbarossa, not to mention the pride Finland got and the humiliation the USSR got in the eyes of the world.

Imagine sending any regiments to Finland without winter camouflage.

I mean there are quite alot of "mountains" in the north

Mountain troops were and still are in many countries the ones with the best training and equipment to survive in cold and snowy terrain. At least, apart from the most elite special forces who are trained to operate in any conditions.

​@@chrislfc2317theres no mountains in finland

@@TheRapist1708 hence the way I spelled mountains. The northern border with Russia has lots of steep hills where mountain regiments are probably of use

@@Valokaari I did not know that. Interesting!

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Incredible!

I have played hockey in Malax hockey arena. Im from Kokkola Karleby, not so far away.

No need for shame. You still helped lot.

@@arvopohja7693 Yeah I know, but I wonder what if anything could have been different if there were a swede standing next to every finn

Thanks for the acknowledgment. I think most Finns have inherited a sense of being alone, which probably originates further back in our history, but was definitely strengthened by the wars. I felt surprisingly touched by your comment, so thank you. Sadly, I fear that Ukrainians now suffer the same feeling of aloneness.

@@annasaarinen332 Aslong as we support Ukraine in best way we can. But yeah its sad, i am cheering for them overall. Really admire their courage!

We had a few thousand Swedish brave volunteers and they fought bravely

They actually planned that the Soviets will continue to fight like that.

Germany only goal was take Moscow, St. Petersburg and Stalingrad. Thats why Operation Barbarossa was need to be quick and decisive but they failed. Because in a long war against Soviet Union will be the end of the Third Reich which they did. But Soviet Union lost so much men that they can never continue to wage war after the end of WW2, USSR wants to take whole of Europe but they can't because they lost too much men. Russia still haven't recovered from the losses they took during WW2 until today.

@ wtf are you talking about?? Red Army emerged if not the strongest then one of the strongest after war in Europe. Do you know that operation Unthinkable (when allies together with the remnants of wiermaht planned surprise attack on the Soviet Union and was called off for fear that they definitely will not succeed quickly and even might not succeed in a long run?? Do your know who defeated 1ML Quantung army in Manchuria in August 1945?

The Germans were aware of that of course. But they believed the extent of that is much smaller than it actually was. And they tried to fight the war using conventional rules of war like they did against France for example.German generals believed that taking Moscow would end the war, while in reality that would have done not much, a logistical disaster yes and a whole load of other things the Soviets would still have so much more manpower that it won't turn the tide of war. Or the Soviets traded casualties for times. This would be unheard of in other nations. They can do it to some extent. But not even close to what the Soviets were able to.

@ in war against axis deaf rate was 1(g.s.)/1.3(s.s.), others were citizens. In plans of operation "unthinkable" wrote that Soviet Army could conquer all Europe in 1-2 months even if USA would bomb all Soviet biggiest cities.

@@jussim.konttinen4981 Interesting in how Finland defeated Nazi Germany quite soundly.

@@Cortesevasive Germans were allied with soviets during the war

@@Cortesevasive We could have lost even more land and much more lives if we had done as Baltics did and cave to the Soviets.

There was only one finnish puppet sate in second world war and it was on the soviet side during winter war.

@@Cortesevasive Were bribed by germans because what? They didnt accept Soviet demands of land? Yeah you must be allied with Germany if you dont accept. I can make a quess that you are Russian by that logic. Also Ukraine is bribed by U.S because they don't give Russia their land, soon you will follow same logic and invade them as well.

@@Cortesevasive With that logic, France should have given up part of their Maginot line to the germans only because they asked for it

I would be very interested to hear all the stories that led to the soviet failures. There was a lot going on in soviet union which finland probably understood and gambled on and sort of won we all know that, but the soviet politics has not been covered very much.

And now imagine how under apprechieted the Lappland's War and the whole arctic side of this all is. The most silenced and ignored of them all.

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Still lost the war

@@slavic_viking9638 and the winner got communism

We lost 10% of previously Finnish territory and all of the nickel mines in the north. This weird and cringeworthy obsession with online weirdos that Finland won is pure right-wing projection.

@@henriashurst-pitkanen8735 would you prefer to be Russian?