The Winter War using Google Earth 

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The K/D ratio for Finland is insane, they really knew their own landscape very well.

0:57 correction, finland did not lose all of this land after the winter war. finland only lost the karelian isthmus, and salla. not petsamo (the northeastern parts) the rest were lost after the continuation war (1944)

The Soviet Union suffered 5x more casualties than finland which is INSANE

This made Hitler believe that Soviet was weak

Mannerhein is a Finn hero and the greatest Finn of all time.

Something I would have liked to hear in the voiceover is Churchill talking about Finland: "Only Finland--superb, nay, sublime--in the jaws of peril; Finland shows what free men can do. The service rendered by Finland to mankind is magnificent. They have exposed, for all the world to see, the military incapacity of the Red Army and of the Red Air Force. Many illusions about Soviet Russia have been dispelled in these few fierce weeks of fighting in the Arctic Circle. Everyone can see how Communism rots the soul of a nation; how it makes it abject and hungry in peace, and proves it base and abominable in war. We cannot tell what the fate of Finland may be, but no more mournful spectacle could be presented to what is left to civilized mankind than that this splendid Northern race should be at last worn down and reduced to servitude worse than death by the dull brutish force of overwhelming numbers."

My great-grandfather's brother died in this war. He was only 19 years old. He died in a trench during bombartment in which his unit took heavy casualties. The bombartment was followed by a Soviet infantry attack which was repelled. His unit held the line until the end of the war. All of the fallen are buried next to each other in Western Finland as they were a company formed from the men of the same village. From the names in the graves you can see that many of the dead were from the same families. There's even a father and a son which died the same day.

My great grandfather (died 3 years ago at 95) was the commander of his unit, he was not the kind of person to talk about the war, but what we ever gor from him was that his unit got ambushed back against a river when a bridge was destroyed, they were slaughtered exept for him and 2 men, one of them critically injured, he and the other guy dragged the 3 rd one from the river and hid in the forest, and carried the injured man to safety. That was all we ever gor from him and it was when he just had some weiard moment that he just started talking, when he got where i stopped hi went dead silent and never said anything about the war again.

According to Nikita Khrushchev, 1.5 million men were sent to Finland and one million of them were killed, while 1,000 aircraft, 2,300 tanks and armored cars and an enormous amount of other war materials were lost. This was second war starting 1941 and ending 1944.

"Hi, I'm Finland and I fought a gigantic military behemoth praticaly by myself and avoided being made into a soviet shithole".

Very well made mate! Cheers, keep up the great work

this proves that skill beats numbers

Things explaining the horrible disparity in casualties despite Soviet overpower in men, technology, gear and vehicles: - Soviets underestimated Finnish defenses and will, committing too little forces. - Stalin's purges lead to decrease in command compitense. - Soviets lacked good winter gear for the coldest winter in the region in decades. - Soviets lacked camouflage as they mainly used brown summer coats. - Homefield and defebders' adcantage for Finns. - Finnish terrain especially in the east was/is heavily forested with only few bigger roads over the border which diminished Soviet mechanized warfare's effectiveness. - Soviets recruited many men from southern USSR who were unfamiliar with the weather up north.

I didn't know Soviets didn't put much troops on the offensive considering their size. They probably thought Finland would cave in and they got off guard with an unexpected war.

My grandpa died on Winter War

These were very hard times to my grandparents in Finland. My grandfathers were seriously injured back then. We lost both of our wars with the Soviet Union. But we managed to keep most of our territory and limited freedom / independence. After wars men had to be very quiet about all heroic deeds in the battlefields. We had Soviet spies and propaganda everywhere. If we were to be conquired, our officers would have been massaquired, our women raped, and many Finns exported to Siberia. Now it is Ukraine who suffers. Our history makes us feel strongly for this great nation fighting for it's freedom and future of it's children against the Russian Federation.

Wow, cool!

Nice I'm early great video like always

Ngl the finish were excellent in understanding there terrain and fighting against the soviets! The Casualty ratio is a fantastic way of comparison for it!

"They are so many and our country so small... where shall we find space to bury them all?"

Very nice!

Пойти на Берлин пока Гитлер бросил все силы на Францию ? Нет ! Потерять тысячи техники и сотны тысяч человек что бы захватить 10% нищей безоружной Финляндии ? Да ! Слава финским войнам

Just a personal suggestion: tone down the background color of the territories controlled. For me the cool thing about these videos is the Google Earth aspect so being able to see the earth better would be awesome. I can tell pretty easily what is red and what is blue without the saturation being cranked. Just my opinion ☺️ seriously do love the videos, though don’t mind my nitpicking

Stalin wanted to take Finland in 2 weeks as a birthday present for him self.

Its ridiculous that we americans fought on the side of the soviets during WW2. Because immediately after, we went right on back to fighting with the soviets as we had before.

Amazing video❤

You should really use the music maphistorial used for his yougoslav war vid!

CHAD FINNS vs virgin soviets

Bro you should making videos like this. ıt s insane

One of my great-great-granduncles perished in this war. He was in the Red Army and was one day setting up radio wires when he suddenly disappeared. He was declared missing in action so his family couldn't apply for material aid.

Finland Sniper 🔛🔝

Bro this is a real life xp farm

Personally for me the USSR just wanted to spread communism, which I absolutely hate

Nice bro 👌

Кстати тут впервые была использована тактика так называемой "народной республики нуждающейся в защите"

It's kinda shocking that one soldier killed 500+ Soviets in the 350k casualties

Which application do you use besides google earth?

Thanks

I love that video

Orcs then and now. Charging face first into your enemy with hordes until the hopes they capitulate.

Will you do ww1?

How do you do this??

Ok,Very nice ❤

Hey why the snow is talkin-

this is the true meaning of "disgraceful victory"

Nice

The ending picture is wrong. The Murmansk area was not taken away by the Soviet Union. It was taken away after World War II.

the finnish will never be broken

SIMO HAYA the famous FINISH SNIPER

how did you do that

And they still lost territory in the end. I guess you can't stop a swarm.

pls continuation war 1941-1944

It was also in this War that the legend of the White Death Was Born

Never forget never forgive

"Unprovoked agression" it seems like Russia has a unhealthy habit of doing this throughout the years.

Russia just spamming troops fr- Ron player

Big part of those areas we lose Stalins red pen on the map. It was blackmailing. Bigger part on the continue war.

someone know where do he get all that information?

结尾芬兰版图错了

Viipuri is still under occupation

Continuation war where

How do you make ur vids ?????

Simo Häyhä: 🗿

🇫🇮💪

Wow almost 400k

A russian general stands at the Finnish border ready to invade. From somewhere in the forest just across the border, a voice calls out, "One Finn can kill ten Russians!" The general laughs, and feeling himself in a sporting mood, orders ten soldiers to cross into Finland. Ten shots ring out, then silence. The voice calls again, "One Finn can kill a hundred Russians!" Surprised but still confident, the general orders a hundred men forward. One hundred shots ring out, and then silence. The voice calls again, "One Finn can kill a THOUSAND Russians!" Enraged, the general is just about to send a thousand men across when suddenly he hears another voice cry out, "WAIT!!!" Looking out, he sees one wounded Russian running back toward him waving his arms in the air and crying out, "Dont do it! It's a trap! There are TWO of them!!!"

The russian casualties, true numbers, can never be precicely revealed, and they are most likely much higher than the ones public. Finnish casualties are numbered pretty accurately, which can and has been investigated by many historians from open sources, church parish books etc. Almost all finns were found from there at that time. Finns even published book in which there were shown all dead soldiers, each listed by cities/town/parishes where they came from. Most of them even with pictures. The completing of that book was a big scale national project..The book is called Vapautemme hinta (the price of our freedom). Finns had also a habit of bringing the fallen soldiers into their own home area for burials, whenever possible. And if not, the burial place was decorated on the graveyard of a home parish. After the battles that included heavy sovjet losses, for example Suomussalmi, thousands of red army soldiers had to be buried temporarily to mass graves in situ. After the war finns asked, if russian wanted to repatriate their dead and the response was that we never lost such amounts of soldiers, the topic was dropped and the dead were left there on their initial burying ground, since their mere existance was not acknowleged by the sovjet government. These mass graves can still be visited for example by the side of the Raate road, where a sovjet elite division was decimated during the Suomussalmi campaign. Go and see for yourselves. Impressive document on the folly of the wars.

Like the USSR was losing and Finland gave up Vyborg and part of the Northern Territories near Norway as a consolation

"Small but strong" finland's title

Didnt they have any strategist? Instead of going head first into mined and fortified south like a bunch of mangloids...why didnt they instead manouver more trops up north and cut them down and encircle them?

Finish were outnumbered 2 to 1, but the casualties were 5 to 1...

great grandfathere-ww2 grandfather-afganistan Father-checnia son- ukraine

in Finland war got Soviet 1940s

As a soviet general once said, "we have won just enough land to bury our dead"

That was rather mean of Stalin. He thought "Now that we have half of Poland. We now take part of Finland, then we conquer Baltic countries." And that's exactly what he did. Why else would Finland side with Germany? To regain it's lost territory. What Stalin did was ridiculous. It also explains the bit from the USSR Anthem, "And Stalin our leader with faith in the people, helped us to build up the land that we love".

Теперь понятно от какого учится великий стратег ВладимВладимирович...

Can you do the Khmer civil war please

Yay

After this, Stalin realized that the Red Army was outdated and began reform, thanks to Finland for the hints ! 🚩🤝🇫🇮

У Украины и Финляндии есть что-то общее

"This is not war, but ruthless aggression" So it's war then?

The absolute failure by Stalin.

Summary: The Winter War was a war between the USSR and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30th November, 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13th March, 1940. Casualties: Finland: 25,904 killed, 43,557 wounded USSR: 126,875 dead, 264,908 wounded Total of Civilians: 900,000 deaths

im from finland

Happiness ❤

Respect Finland👍👍👍🇫🇮

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Tut on how to do this???

Finns were sending injured to sweden for rearmament and supplies. They were 110 % focused.

Finlandia aguantó como un campeón 👑,pero no tanto contra la unión soviética 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

If finland have 3million soldiers they easily can break soviet union

Every minute in Finland a Soviet soldier died

yessssssssssssssssssssssss

this puts on full display on how much of a joke the russian army is

impressive, how the heroic democratic nations UK, France, US were not give a shit... but when Germany attacked Poland, they immidiately got triggered

And why was Soviets so very ineffective against FInland? Several reasons. 1) Geography. Fenno/Russian borders has lots natural defences, hills, bodies of water, bogs and lots, lots, LOTS of thick forest. And the lack of roads, so as the Soviets relied on armored and mechanical divisions, they were an easy target for Finnish guerillas. Also the Finns were familiar with the lands, Soviers were not, as most of the Soviet forces came from Ukraine, Belarus and Asia. 2) Lack of suppiles and supply lines. As the Soviets believed the war would last a week or two, soliders were given barelly any supplies, no proper winter clothing, no warm food, meaning crackers and black tea. There were several instances when Soviet attacked Finnish field kitchens so they could have SOMETHING to eat. 3) Lack of leadership and political influence. Stalin had purged the military from it's leaders 10 years earlier, so the red army didn't have any proper leadership. Division were mostly lead by political comissars, who were more concerned about the spirit of revolution and propaganda than actual military strategies. And the armies were lead to belive that the Finns would take them with open arms as liberators and the Finnish army would kill their leaders and throw out their weapons as soon as the workers red army marches in. It didn't happen. Also, doesn't that sounds oddly familiar...? 4) Weather and Finnish adaptablity. As it happens, it was the coldest winter in several decades, temperatures contantly dropped to -40 celcius and lower, and as mentioned, Soviets didn't have proper clothing or warm food, guess what's the outcome. Also the Finnish army were good at adapting. Finnish army didn't have proper anti-tank weaponry, but they realised the weakness of Soviet tanks, and used Molotov cocktails and combat them. And skiis allowed them to traverse quickly in snow, they could quickly attack against Soviet collums, destroy them and quickly retreat to forest. But unfortunately, Soviets just had some much more men to waste, something the Finns didn't have, and the lack of supports from the west meant that Finns had to sign the peace treaty, prolonged war would have been distasterous.

how to create it?

Wow, USRR was really bad in this war

Early!