@@user-kk6yg7ds9z In Bear Grylls' tv-show about French Foreign Legion, I heard that after the WW2 so many Wehrmacht soldiers were recruited to the Legion that until nowadays Legion's song still remind germans ones.
russia has more colder regions than finnland your comment makes no sense since russians know what cold is better russia record according to wikipedia -67.8 °C finnland record according to wikipedia −51.5 °C
@@utvm6748 yes but 90% of the Russians live in the moderately cold west Russia, which means 90% of the soldiers were from there too, the coldest temps are in Siberia, in the west it doesn't *usually* go colder than -30C, which isn't very cold for any northener. but in their crappy red army uniforms it was too cold for them.
*Sabaton Intensifies* Shout, Lauri Törni's name A soldier of three armies knows the game Keeps their echo from the past... *Drums and electric guitar* Rise from beyond your grave Son of Finland and the Green Beret May you rest in peace at last, Lauri Allan Törni
They are still shocked about the cold during training. This is strange because you have many areas with snow in North America..I would rather be trapped in arctic conditions than tropic. 😂.
Respect to your father. But did you know that Thorne fought in the SS and participated in the siege of Leningrad, which claimed about a million civilian lives? In the book Just and Unjust Wars, the American political philosopher Michael Walzer , "more civilians died in the siege of Leningrad than in the inferno of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined» Thorny is a war criminal. The good soldiers did not fight in the SS units
@@ГендальфБелый-е6д just because he was apart of it, does not mean he committed the atrocities committed there. Yes he was apart of the SS but he still fought on the Finnish front meaning his involvement with that event were minimal. He also served in prison for exactly that if you had been paying attention.
@@ГендальфБелый-е6д He did that yes, as said in the video multiple times. He did well protecting his home, which is why hes a Hero to all Finns, but his hate of commies drove him further. I don't like to believe he did any atrocities, but it's possible, since the Bastards the SS we're. I'd say he was about even on the war reputation, since he did good, and bad.
And many more. See RU-vid "The Real Finnish Soldier of Three Armies: Lauri Allan Torni" his medals pictured at 10:21 Wikipedia's article on him tells which of the pictured American medals were posthumous.
SHOUT LAURI TÖRNI'S NAME, SOLDIER OF THREE ARMIES KNOWS THE GAME, DEEDS THAT ECHO FROM THE PAST, RISE FROM BEYOND YOUR GRAVE, SON OF FINLAND AND A GREEN BERET, MAY YOU REST IN PEACE AT LAST, LAURI ALLAN TÖRNI
This is a true story, my great uncle Delbert Ray Peterson was on the same helicopter Torin was. My grandpa remembered hearing about him from one of the letters he got from my great uncle.
"Started out as a reserve, soon promoted when deserved, an the legend has begun". Even more amazing, that you guys already collaborated with Sabaton and are now covering this topic, you're among my favorite channels on all of RU-vid at the moment!
"Finns blocked the northern route to Leningrad." While this is true, it leads to the common claim that Finns blocked "supply lines" coming to Leningrad from the northern direction. However, there were no supply routes to Leningrad from north because the territory north of Leningrad had belonged to Finland since the 1920 Tartu peace treaty. All supply routes to Leningrad came from south and east. Also Lake Ladoga was used in transports to Leningrad.
Correct. Finland never participated to siege of Leningrad. Finland only stood at the pre-war border, and never proceeded towards Leningrad. Finland not attacking actually kept some routes open and the whole city was not demolished.
SHOUT! LAURI TORNI'S NAME A SOLDIER OF THREE ARMIES KNOWS THE GAME DEEDS THAT ECHO FROM THE PAST RISE! FROM BEYOND YOUR GRAVE SON OF FINLAND AND A GREEN BERET MAY YOU REST IN PEACE AS LAST LAURI ALLAN TORNI
In the late 1970s I had a Sergeant Major named Saul that had been in the Finnish army against Russia. He then joined the Germany by becoming an SS soldier and fought against the Russians again. After the war he joined the American army and fought in Vietnam. He was the CSM in my cavalry unit and retired in 1981. I guess that he was not alone.
It isnt as good of a story as this one. Its a korean boy that got conscripted by the Empire of Japan and was captured by the Soviets and sent to a POWcamp and later sent to the eastern front as a solider for the red army. Then he was captured by the germans who sent him to garrison the Atlantic wall in Normandy with other POWs and some german officers. He was captured by the allies and set free. Dont know what he did after that.
@@historysimplified4075 what your basically saying is: Japan: You have him USSR: No, you have him Germany: How about I have him? The Allies: Nah chief, lemme have him
From the Finnish lakes Into Germany and USA All the wars he came across Cross of Mannerheim An iron cross, a bronze star, purple heart One distinguished flying cross Shout, Lauri Törni's name A soldier of three armies knows the game Keeps their echo from the past Rise from beyond your grave Son of Finland and the Green Beret May you rest in peace at last Lauri Allan Törni
Torni is an absolute badass. Like, escaping multiple times, fighting on several nations, commanding a Spec Ops unit in Vietnam, until finally dying of Natural causes. No man got him.
russians: why do i hear distant doom music? *lauri charges over a hill shouting perkele wielding a machine gun ripped from a tank* *rip and tear starts playing full volume*
Not quite. The Molotov Cocktail actually existed long before the Soviet invasion of Finland. But they got the name during the Winter War because of that.
@@Thomas.Wright Fuel bottles existed before, but Finns named it and perfected it. Before Winter War, a rag was tied or stuffed into bottle and ignited and thrown. This has several disadvantages. Once you light it, you have to throw it. And sometimes you can burn yourself from the burning fluid. Those are not great things during combat. Finns used alcohol mixed with tar. That fluid was very flammable, burned hot and the tar made is sticky and hard to put out. Also Finns used a sealed bottle, just like any alcohol bottle. This way the liquid remained inside the bottle at all times. As a fuse, Finns had two storm matched tied to the side of the bottle using metal wire. This way you can light the match well before you have to move into position and still have time to wait. And if there is no chance to throw, match burns out and you can use the bottle later or just light the other march. That gives the soldier lots of time, wait for the right moment and be safer. Also the match was barely visible compared to a flaming rag.
I've known Lauri Thorne as soldier who fought in 3 armies but not known so much about him. Wonderful. Also the törni pronounciation was just like a native Finnish. I love your narration and the new merch. This is an amazing video for 200,000 subscribers (actually 201K now)
Then the Soviets weren’t murderous communists, they were just pure blooded warriors. At the end of the day, there are more people behind a genocidal regime than just the few at the top, it’s just people only want to blame the few at the top
Forgot to mention he selected a Springfield M1903 when serving with MACV-SOG as he had carried both Mosin Nagants and Mauser K98's in previous service- saying a bolt action rifle felt natural in a fight to him. He also carried a Carl Gustav M/45 which was located at the crash site in very poor condition in 1999. Photos of it and parts of the CH-34 main rotor blades can be found on google.
There was also YangKyeongJong a Korean man who was drafted by the Japanese, captured by the Russians, then captured again by the Germans, then the Americans finally figured out who he was and this man fought in 3 armies, and SURVIVED!
And I'm pretty sure there is a movie about his life right? if I'm not wrong it called"My Way". One iconic scene from this movie is the one with japanese soldiers tried to suicide bom a Russian tank. Again that's if I'm not wrong.
4 armies I think? Korean, Japanese, Soviet Russia and German. He could of easily joined the American army in Korea if he wanted too, but like Larry Thorne they both missed the Korean war in 1950.
I love the animation it's so detailed and I'm learning it more. And the first time I saw this channel has 100k+ subs and just a few months it has already 200k+!
This man hated communism enough for fighting against them for years, (2 wars) and He died as he did his best fighting them... He truly was a real warrior. Thanks Yarnhub for showing us the history of another awesome man, Another excelent work Yarnhub
@@hachipanki8634 Basically the US got the paranoid from the communist revolution in russia, because the communists wanted to overthrow capitalists which america was very much of. So since the 1930s the US was trying to silence the communists and started political tension between the US and the USSR. When the Cold War started in 1946 (or 1949) The communists wanted to control stuff, but the United States wanted to control stuff too and basically said "you cant so that im the only one that can do that" and then started EVEN MORE political tension. When the Korean War started it raised it even higher because China was supporting NKOR, the US gone crazy over controlling communism. When the Viet nam war started they started calling it the "domino effect" and by the NVA and VC started invading, and Cuba and Turkey started smelling like nuclear ICBMs which then it escalated the cold war into a boiler waiting to explode into Nuclear war. After that it was pretty much just invading countries for the stock market. But the yanks once supported afghanistan against the Afghan - USSR war. (Sorry if I appear a little biased but I tried to keep it neutral as possible)
@@AmericanIdiot7659 I mean it does sound kind of bias as well. It sounds like you're saying the US was unjustified in trying to retain global dominance.
@@humbleguardsman5578 I mean the US did not do as many warcrimes as the USSR did as far as I know. (By that I am meaning warcrimes with govt permission and people not being court marshaled.) There was in the USSR the execution of hundreds of thousands of German, Polish, Finnish, soldiers and officers. And raipng of Berlin, and they killed hundreds of people trying to escape to the west (kind of justified but not sure) Though the US did many warcrimes in Vietnam but it was mostly the troops.
Тебя надо лечить, это (воин) был СС служил нацистом, +белофин, замыкад Ленинград и морил голодом , во Вьетнаме убивал народ вьетнама на своей же земле, типо демократия, а ты его уважаешь значит ты дебил
Thank you for the like. I would like to suggest a video idea, the story of Latvian Riflemen in World War I, especially the Christmas battles and the Battle of the Machine gun hill.
A grand salute to the bravery and courage shown by Finland. The Vietnam army used to call 'green beret' as 'white feather' because they used to sneak in night and behead Vietnam armies without making any noise, and how they do it silently nobody knows. Finland having surrendering much portion of its land to soviet still fought back and today Finland is one of top countries where education is of great quality. Many people dream of studying in Finland. A grand salute to Finland for making us proud.🫡🫡🫡🫡
What an honor. I mean it for real. Not only a man who was brave anough to continue fighting, like in it's blood. The thing is the story is so amazingly animated, like his story. Truly a wonderful masterpiece.
They found some documents some years ago, apparently he put some legal trickery into the forms (he was helped by some American lawyer) claiming that he had been "like some 2000 Finnish officers been imprisoned for preparing resistance against possible Communist coup and Soviet occupation" - i.e. he associated himself to arms cache cases, in which 1488 (no, really) people were actually sentenced because army was storing various small arms basically everywhere in the country to wage guerilla war if necessary. But Törni had been imprisoned because he had joined the German forces when Finland and Germany were at war.
