Humor of Finnish Winter War
A large group of Russian soldiers in the border area in 1939 are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a small hill: "One Finnish soldier is better than ten Russian".
The Russian commander quickly orders 10 of his best men over the hill where Upon a gun-battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes, then silence.
The voice once again calls out: "One Finn is better than one hundred Russian."
Furious, the Russian commander sends his next best 100 troops over the hill and instantly a huge gun fight commences.
After 10 minutes of battle, again Silence.
The calm Finnish voice calls out again:
"One Finn is better than one thousand Russians"
The enraged Russian commander musters
1000 fighters and sends them to the other side
of the hill. Rifle fire, machine guns, grenades,
rockets and cannon fire ring out as a terrible
battle is fought.... Then Silence.
Eventually one badly wounded Russian fighter crawls back over the hill and with his dying words tells his commander, "Don't send any more men......it's a trap. There's two of them."
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As Finski used to say, " One Finn was worth ten Russians but the eleventh got you". It was a huge tragedy how the Finns were ground to a pulp by a Russian Horde. A brave people.
It seems that at that time there was a lot of bravery in every country. I'm afraid I don't see that here anymore.
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The worst thing about war is that you send your best, bravest people into battle to be killed and leave the weak to breed your future.
Jim
The Fins played the most pivotal moves in the war, able to be a strategic place which both the Soviets and Nazis wanted and even after all was said and done, they lost only a few large cities alone the Isthmus to the Russian treaty - which the Fins were not happy about, from the Winter War thru the Continuation War and the entire war the Fins fought out-numbered greatly to the Russians but they were dressed for battle and knew all the Russian tank's short-comings. A Molotov cocktail to the air intake of a tank meant one dead tank and a line of tanks who couldn't move.
The Soviets poorly arranged troops with tanks, tanks mainly on their own as if indestructible, a major blunder on Stalin's part. But when Finland allowed Nazis to build infrastructure and landing areas to refuel it kept Finland mostly in habitable shape - of course Helsinki and other great cities got slammed, no one escaped the bombs of war in Europe, not even the Fins who more than any other country played this life or death game with less loss than anyone else on the Western European Fronts.
It is amazing to see the history play out - I have a huge book called CHRONICLES OF THE 20TH CENTURY at work I'm reading, and seeing Hitler pop up as early as 1923 and 1925 - and to read his words after a short jail term as he promised his people would build in strength to seemingly impossible numbers, no one thought it could happen until the images of his 600 thousand storm-troopers gathered. From most of what I'm learning of the war, it seems Hitlers biggest blunder was NOT putting more money and development in rocket powered aircraft he thought his Panzer divisions were his main concerns throughout the war. Meanwhile, engines and planes were developed that could fly 100mph faster than the allies and with enough maneuverability to change the face of Europe forever.
Don't ever say it can't happen again - humans are followers and pack creatures. Charismatic people come all throughout history and if they have the fire-power to back up their madness, the mistakes of the past could rear their ugly heads yet again.