White Death - Finnish Sniper Simo Häyhä - Sabaton History 028 [Official] Reaction! 

He wa born b4 Soviet Union was established as a country and died after it collapsed... Outlived a country? Ok, that's kinda cool 😎

"Russian sneezes" Snow: Bless You Russian: Oh fu.. BLAM

He did his sniping during finnish winter, he had like 3-4 hours sunlight daily. Moonlight was also helpfull with white snow.

Kinda funny that this video popped up in my recommendations specificaly today, december the 17th 2023, today would have been Simos 118th birthday if he had still been alive, may he rest in peace and all of us finns thank him sincerely for his service to our great nation!

Check out Simo Häyhä *Deadliest Sniper in Military History* Or/and Sabatons Lauri Törni/Larry Thorn *Soldier of tre Armys* you can RU-vid them ! Btw. My Dad fougth in that war... and i had a same model riffle (Pystykorva/Spit) as Simo had when i did my military service in Finland !! !

God bless Finland

thx for doing this awesome story, shared it.... grts. from a dutch cheesehead in Lower Saxony

Magazine only have 5 shots...so 16 shot in 1 min says it all

31 Finns + Simo vs 5,000+ Russians - the Finns: "Hey, tovarisch! You need more men!" LOL! His name lives on because he was extra-ordinary! When the leader of Finland, Mannerheim, met Hitler, Mannerheim lit up a cigarette knowing that Hitler was rabidly anti-tobacco. When Hitler said nothing about the cigarette Mannerheim knew that Germany needed Finland more than Finland needed Germany! The Finns stopped the Russian advance in 1944 when the Germans could not! A friend of mine in Finland said there are about 250,000 Russian soldiers in Finland - all about 6 feet under the ground! Sisu! - a Finnish word which has no single direct English translation - guts, stoicism, honour, bravery, endurance, persistence, "never-say-die"!!! (Aussies know it as ANZAC-spirit)

It wasnt during his training in the army, it was shooting competitions that he won. 16 times a minute with that gun. 505 confirmed kills.

Cheers from Sweden. I live in a industrial city and we have lots of finnish people living here. A coworker of mine told me 5 years ago about his father that was a finnish jägerinfanterist during ww2 which meant he used bicycles and/or skis to move around. During an engagement on the Karelen isthmus(border region to Russia) his father was ordered along with his batallion to spearhead through a artillery post with bunker fortification connected. They had 5 snipers paving the way for them. I dont know if it was Simo Häyhä but they apparently was good. They used friendly artillery masking their movement and snipers shot look outs. Safe to say the finns were experts in asymmetric warfare at that time. :)

16 times a minute, and he had to reload twice!

"what did you feel when you shot enemy?" "recoil"

Thank you Finland that you are with us.

Forest is a Finn's second home. You goto somebody's home to pick a fight, you will get a bloody nose.

Holy shit! Finland mentioned!! torille!

And it is not always stressed enough that he achieved his body count in much shorter time than the Russian that comes very close.

A great sabaton song about this very war is Winter war/Talvisota, you should check it and thr history out!

They have in Finnland 4000 extra sniper recruits for the army in 2022. Even 15000 or more civillian hunters are following sniper trainings last months. They know the Russians wanna try it again with Putin these days.

He would also pour water on the snow in front of his nest, so that loose powder snow would not be kicked up by the muzzle blast when he fired, and his position would remain undetected. His biographer Antti Rantamaa (who was his company chaplain and later head of the Finnish Lutheran Church and member of the Finnish parliament, so it would be hard to imagine a more trustworthy source) stated that he could judge the distance to within a metre up to 150M and that rapid-fire of 16 hits from 150M in one minute was not only bolt action but used a 5 round clip which needed manual reloading. In 98 days of active duty between 30th Nov 1939 and 7th Mar 1940, he was credited with 542 kills 259 sniped and the remainder in close action, in temperatures ranging between -40C and -20C (-40F and -2F). That is an average of 5.53 per day. And only the confirmed ones. Shared kills where more than one sniper was involved, are not included either, but being such a highly accurate marksman, it is likely that a high proportion of those should be credited to him as well, but no count is known.

Finland about 60 000 dead, Sovjet about 400 000 according to the finish war statistics,

it was so cold during that winter, that sometimes when the russians got hit, they would literally just freeze standing up. sometimes the finns put the soviets on sides of the road as guide signs with their hand pointing to the next village, which demoralized even more soviet soldiers.

who would win? 500 soviet soldiers, or a finnish farmer

Interesting, amazing story

No bullets fly and smoking snakes Sabaton history 👍

The Finnish proverb is heard: the forest responds when it shouts

Very interesting story!

Now check out why the WINGED HUSARS were so powerfull and how Vienna 1683 relates to New York 2001.

We all can shoot a rifle but we all cant bee snipers but we are good hunters in Finland i hawe a m24/30 mosin rifle ☺️☺️🇫🇮🇫🇮

Great reaction again. Especially knowing that you have served soo many years. Isn't a snipers position to prefer? Compared to close quarter combat? Anyway I'm not on the list to be called in anymore, so I can comfortably stay watching RU-vid videos... 😂😂 Much Love 💙💛💙

A common mistake in these. At 1939 when the winter war started Rautjärvi, where Simo Häyhä was living, was not anywhere near the border. Only after the war the new border partly divided also Rautjärvi and Simo had to leave his own home.

The part two of Uprising is still a great watch.

If I had a penny for every single different way Häyhä was pronounced in this video, I'd have half a pound

i can imagine that afraid snipers is same kinda afraid when walking to ground and afraid walking mines. can make head grazy in some point when thinking and scare that kinda things in war all the time. of course finland not have anymore anti personal land mines coz well we are stupid sometimes ( fucking tarja halonen) :) thanx to great reaction like always and have lucky new week there.

"it is a blessing & a curse that we was born in the North"

Very interesting love it

HayHa was a legend

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16 shoots ind 1m with a riffel ho hold 5 shoots

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Check out Sabaton No Bullits Fly Story. That one is amazing to?

The dude who spoke first pronounced Simo's name well but, the narrator for whatever reason pronounced his name reasonably decently the first time but became steadily worse as the video goes on. Why? Presumably they both learned Simo's name at the same time. But wtf, nothing depends on it. (Btw, he didn't only put snow in his mouth to prevent the vapour puffs, he froze his rifle's barrel to also prevent the escape of visible vapour. He didn't "find a new home," the government gave him a farm. And the rest of the boo-boos. Like, his total kill count, rifle and machine gun, was 800+. All in 100 days.)

The narrator's pronunciation of "Häyhä" just hurts my ears. Also 5:34 that photo is often used to portray Simo Häyhä, but that's just a staged photo of some random Swedish soldier. Not a Finnish rifle, and Simo didn't use masks.

Simo was a basic reservist. But a a tad better shooter than the others :)

Interesting how the Germans got defeated by the Russian Winter, yet Russia also got defeated by the Finnish Winter a mere 2 years earlier.