Probably the source of this joke
The Soviet army is marching through a Finnish forest when a general hears a voice from over a hill shout: “one Finnish soldier is better than 10 Soviet soldiers!”
The general promptly send 10 soldiers to root out the voice, there is gunfire, and then silence.
After a few minutes, the voice shouts defiantly: “One Finnish soldier is better than a hundred Soviet soldiers!!”
The general sends a hundred men to remove the nuisance, there is a racket of gunfire, and then quiet.
The voice cries out loudly once more: “One Finnish soldier is better than a thousand Soviet soldiers!!”
Enraged, the general sends a thousand men charging over the hilltop to shut up that voice once and for all, an epic battle rages, and then quiet. After a few minutes, a gravely wounded Soviet crawls back over the hill and cries:
“It’s a trap! There are two of them!”
Jesus!
From his Wiki page
Some of Häyhä’s figures are from a Finnish Army document, counted from the beginning of the war, 30 November 1939:
22 December 1939: 138 sniper kills in 22 days[21] 26 January 1940: 199 sniper kills (61 in 35 days)[22] 17 February 1940: 219 sniper kills (20 in 22 days)[7] 7 March 1940 (one day after he was wounded): total of 259 sniper kills (40 in 18 days)[7]Häyhä never discussed it publicly, but his own private memoir, discovered in 2017, states a number. He begins by stating that “this is his sin list”, and estimates the total number he shot to be around 500.
Also keep in mind how much (or better how few) daylight there was during that time in the Finnish winter.
Additionally, these are only the numbers of those who he killed as a sniper, not counting those who he killed using his submachine gun, which is estimated to be roughly the same number on top.For those interested into the story, the Sabaton history video is worth watching.
And also their song White Death is neat.
Fuck Russia.
if you like snipers, see also carlos hathcock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock
the movie trope of a sniper’s shot going through another sniper’s scope into his eye–hathcock did that
He was also the grandfather of the .50 sniper rifle, because he mounted a sniper scope onto an M2 .50 machine gun.
His biography is insane, the stuff he managed to live through is unreal.
Is he the one that sighted in on a boulder to get everything zeroed, only to have a VC spotter setup on his boulder…?
8mm Mauser Model 98, an old one. Those things make an earth-shattering kaboom. The Germans supplied most of the Finnish equipment in the Winter War.
Nah that’s an M96 (or M38) Swedish Mauser. The front sight is wrong, and it has the Swedish Bayonet. Still loud as hell, and 6.5 Swede is still no joke in terms of accuracy and stopping power today.
Obviously, he is just posing for the photo with a different gun than his own.
According to his Wikipedia article:
He used a Finnish-produced M/28-30 rifle (a variant of Mosin–Nagant)
Finnish 7.62 mm rifle M/28-30 with M/28-30 bayonet.
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The M28/30 was indeed his main rifle, but he had a Swede too. There’s a picture of him after he retired where they’re all in a rack behind him in his house.
If I recall correctly, that picture is thought to be of a Swedish volunteer and not Häyhä, although it is often claimed to be him.
Tbf, with the clothing and mask, this could be almost anybody.
It absolutely could be. I think the assumption is based on what’s known about the photo, not what’s actually in it.
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
He removed a lot of Russian trash from finnish lands… Peak Chad
I know he’s often credited as the deadliest dude ever, but what specifically is our corroborating proof that the numbers are even remotely accurate? Not trying to downlplay, just curious
The Fat Electrician just did a video. Seems legit.
Decent watch. Saddest new knowledge to me was that he lost his original farm he was fighting for in the first place.
Wouldn’t it be easier to aim without the bayonet?
Yes, but he’s posing for a cool picture
