The Winter War using Google Earth
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ม.ค. 2024
- Made using Google Earth.
The Winter War from start to finish.
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Music:
- • Shattered Helium - Rul...
Speeches/footage:
- • Finnish Minister On Th...
- • Talvisota- The Winter ...
- • Sympathy For Finland (...
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Battle of zwolle pls
Siege of Vienna,please.
Siege of Viena please.
Fake numbers
irretrievable losses of the Red Army:
65 thousand 384 people were killed and died at the stages of sanitary evacuation.
Died of wounds and diseases - 15 thousand 921 thousand.
14 thousand 043 people were missing.
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In total - 95 thousand 348 people."Russia and the USSR in the wars of the XX century" edited by G.F. Krivosheev.
I've seen your numbers in this lie. Write the source or you're just a liar.
The K/D ratio for Finland is insane, they really knew their own landscape very well.
The numbers are inflated as fuck tho
But still lost their territories...
Sad thing.
@@Max_Skogrthing is that they couldn’t fight forever as they would eventually run out faster
Yeah thats one big reason Germany thought it would be easy to defeat Soviet Union
Soviet losses were taken by the highest estimate which includes even Soviet citizens with whom relatives lost touch during period of war.
Finnish losses were taken according to Mannerheim.
Incorrect comparison.
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)
True
Thanks for the correction, you are right, Finland did not lose as much territory in the Northeast as is shown in the video until the continuation war, my mistake.
cap
@@W4emTP Article 2. "The border between the Republic of Finland and the USSR is to run along the new border line so that the USSR annexes the territories of the entire Karelian isthmus including Viipuri and the bay of Viipuri along with its islands, the western and northern shores of Ladoga including the cities of Käkisalmi and Sortavala as well as the parish of Suojärvi, a collection of islands in the gulf of Finland, the territory east of Märkäjärvi including the parish of Kuolajärvi and parts Kalastajasaarento and Srednissaarento."
@@W4emTP maybe literally just take 5 seconds looking it up instead of making yourself look dumb by saying something like this 😭
The Soviet Union suffered 5x more casualties than finland which is INSANE
@@SaveSadMosta_RaceTo1k Please do tell why being backed by the UK specifically, as opposed to the various other countries that sent aid to Finland, contributed to the high casualties inflicted onto the Red Army.
Fake numbers ...
Russians never cared much about their soldiers
@@johnsch1988 What source do you have to prove it is fake?. Just admit that your "glorious" USSR suffered a ton of casualties just for tiny pieces of land 💀
@@SaveSadMosta_RaceTo1kbarely
This made Hitler believe that Soviet was weak
And the Soviets suffered massive losses against the Germans aswell. The KD ratio was almost 1:2
@@Iamnotracistlmao and captured Berlin at the end anyway
@@Iamnotracistlmao It was 1.4 Red Army loss for every German.
@@comrade_commissar3794 Yes and that's embarassing
@@red-gp9ohh you shouldn't just look at the result and be like : yeah these guys won so they are stronger than them. soviet union had a strong army, but not stronger than germany. they way germany alone just pushed the soviets to moscow is really admiring. then the soviets pushed the germans back by help of the winter, which weakened germany, and also with help of American/British support through Iran.
Mannerhein is a Finn hero and the greatest Finn of all time.
he's not Finnish, technically he's swedish
@@razzy1 He was born in Askainen though? Which is in Finland.
Mannh\erheim was swedish and didnt speak finnish😊
@@jagplaysroblox2169 He was Finnish tho.
@@jagplaysroblox2169 He was finnish speaking swedish. Swedish is the second official language of Finland.
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."
Very relevant in actuality, with Ukraine now
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.
God bless him
He will not be missed.
@@comrade_commissar3794What makes you say something like that about a kid who only defended his country?
Opa pastel de carne bão demais 😋 @@pasteldecarne6576
@@pasteldecarne6576 probably roleplaying as communist russia, what a child
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.
"Hi, I'm Finland and I fought a gigantic military behemoth praticaly by myself and avoided being made into a soviet shithole".
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.
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.
Sounds familiar....
You want them to send an army half the population of finland? You just dont know anything about wars
@@oicmapperNo he wanted them to send enough equipment to last more than a month, and to actually focus that equipment in the south where it actually mattered
Winter War seems so similar to the current Russia-Ukraine War: undersized invading army, goal of taking just a portion of defending country's territory for economic + geopolitical reasons, and ultimate stalemate-ish outcome.
They sent 1,2 million. Finland's population was 3 million. That's an insane amount. Note that Finland's number is the whole army, incl. air defence, navy, guards, bases etc. whereas Soviet numbers are only the ones at the front, not the whole Red Army. In reality the manpower imbalance at the front was much worse than 1:2.
this proves that skill beats numbers
But the soviets won
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.
My grandpa died on Winter War
I hope he goes to Heaven Inshallah
😢🫡🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
@@raduga.1231Ayo why the smile 💀
@@Liberistan_Peoples_Republicno pfp?
*in the
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.
Like it happened to Poland, Germany, Hungary etc thank heaven that we can defend our countries now
Very well made mate! Cheers, keep up the great work
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!
irretrievable losses of the Red Army:
65 thousand 384 people were killed and died at the stages of sanitary evacuation.
Died of wounds and diseases - 15 thousand 921 thousand.
14 thousand 043 people were missing.
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In total - 95 thousand 348 people.
@@johnsch1988 which source did you use? because on every source i look soviet casualties are not less than 120k.
@@amiralirezaei2693 "The secrecy stamp has been lifted: The losses of the Armed Forces of the USSR in wars, hostilities and military conflicts" - the monograph published in 1993 is the first comprehensive comprehensive historical and statistical study conducted by a team of military historians under the leadership of G. F. Krivosheev
The Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 lasted only 105 days but was quite bloody. The Finnish side lost 100 thousand men from almost 600 thousand of called up. The losses of the Red Army numbered 391.8 thousand men from 1 million who participated in the military actions.
so yes they did pretty badly
"They are so many and our country so small... where shall we find space to bury them all?"
Stalin wanted to take Finland in 2 weeks as a birthday present for him self.
Wow, cool!
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
Учитывая размер советской армии, СССР мог сделать и то и другое одновременно
У СССР и Гермы был заключён пакт, я бы посоветовал тебе историю чуть подучить прежде чем в комментариях выебываться
@@arty5876 Size is not same as skill. when you send drunks to war, you get what you see
Finland Sniper 🔛🔝
Вот только они не смогли себя опровдать в войне,хоть и красная армия несла большие потери но прорвартся глубоко в Финляндию смогли
@@fxebet_9590ehh not deep but they did invade
@@fxebet_9590 What do you mean deep😂
Very nice!
CHAD FINNS vs virgin soviets
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🏳️🌈vs🇷🇺
@@chujciwdupe5786 russia is gay
@@Georgianmapping19283 2008❤️
@@chujciwdupe5786 mentioning a war isnt gonna make me cry
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.
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
I agree!
Amazing video❤
You should really use the music maphistorial used for his yougoslav war vid!
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.
Nice I'm early great video like always
It's kinda shocking that one soldier killed 500+ Soviets in the 350k casualties
Simo Hayha was a Finnish sniper who killed 500 Soviet Soldiers (official)
Imagine, how many he actually killed but was not identified or found.
@@Bangladeshi_Edits and not just a casual sniper. using no scope to avoid sun reflection. putting a ball of snow in his mouth to avoid the steam from his mouth. he was really brilliant
@@amiralirezaei2693 Yea, I forgot that
@@Bangladeshi_Editsзабавно, конечно же это не ложь и все честно, никакой пропаганды тут нет) Как минимум тут преувеличение в 10 раз.
@@user-fj6ru3bv8hYou are very incorrect…
Personally for me the USSR just wanted to spread communism, which I absolutely hate
They could care less about spreading communism, they just wanted people to exploit
Кстати тут впервые была использована тактика так называемой "народной республики нуждающейся в защите"
Orcs then and now. Charging face first into your enemy with hordes until the hopes they capitulate.
Забавно, но даже во Власти не колец были моменты когда уважали крепкого врага, который умел побеждать, крепкие урук хай были серьёзным противником, но как я понимаю мордорская снага что-то там кричит на орков Изенгарда, глупый ты снага украинская, все равно ты будешь орком для эльфов, тебя всего лишь используют. Ах да, умолчим что орки это эльфы, которых пленили и пытали, но которых не приняли. Из всех мудрых, только Саруман принял их, и за него, в отличие от Саурона воевали не за страх, за совесть. За ним шли, даже тогда когда он потерял власть и был изгнан из Изенгарда. Даже в этой книжке, не все так однозначно. После победы так называемых сил света был устроен геноцид, весь народ был уничтожен, вместе с детьми и женщинами. Профессор предупреждал, он не хотел что бы его сказка стала нацисткой агиткой, но увы она стала. Но да ладно, Урук Хай! Смерть эльфам)))
*What is your point?*
@@MusicallyQ I done stated it, tf you mean?
@@haydenmcwhorter6363 *Eow read this comment I wasn’t writing to ya I was writing to this Russian user comment, tf did you get mad for.*
@@MusicallyQ You didn't exactly @ them to make that clear.
Bro this is a real life xp farm
I love that video
Its crazy how important environment is in warfare
Nice
Will you do ww1?
It will be delayed cause he said that Adobe after effects has been crashed which is the only program that where he is making his own videos.
the finnish will never be broken
RUSSIA BREAKS FINLAND & EUROPE
Except they were. They lost the Winter war and they lost the continuation war.
I dont know why the soviets wanted that frozen shithole of a land
@@comrade_commissar3794 Defensive victories, though. Also kept their independence. Based on the comments you've made on here your brainrot is obvious
@@lusmuu The Soviet Union didn’t want to occupy Finland. If they wanted to, they could have on two seperate occasions. Immediately after they broke through the mannerheim line during the winter war and were marching on Helsinki, and immediately after the Finnish surrender during Second World War.
> Defensive victories though
Neither the Winter War or the Continuation war were victories for Finland. The Soviet Union won both times undeniably.
Thanks
Nice bro 👌
Which application do you use besides google earth?
Im looking for that too man
he made a tutorial a few months back
@@franvbxd7350^^
this is the true meaning of "disgraceful victory"
*Почему?*
Hohol rashrukalsya
@@hto_ya_blyat у СРСР було 5 разів більше втрат але вони всерівно перемогли
@@DbgevdDgdgdgd english please
Because stalin killed his competent generals in his purges
Ok,Very nice ❤
Never forget never forgive
The ending picture is wrong. The Murmansk area was not taken away by the Soviet Union. It was taken away after World War II.
You mean Petsamo, but yes, it was ceded only in 1947.
Мурманская область, это что у вас так называлась, мирные овечки которые хотели захватить и Мурманск.
@@francisdec1615It was ceded in 1944
@@user-fj6ru3bv8hMannerheim literally refrained from capturing murmansk even tho he could have
@@oltzu5206 Forgive me, of course, but actually the attempts were made from Finnish territory. But ok, you are a Westerner, so I forgive you for your ignorance on this matter. The Red Army held serious forces there, plus the terrain itself made it difficult to advance; it was for this reason that during the Winter War and later at the beginning of June 1944, the main fighting took place on the Karelian Isthmus.
Hey why the snow is talkin-
SIMO HAYA the famous FINISH SNIPER
How do you do this??
And they still lost territory in the end. I guess you can't stop a swarm.
Zombie swarm yes. Z
that's a bad mentality you have. imagine being a part of the swarm yourself
@@taavetti13 that's a bad mentality you have. imagine being a finnish farmer defending your own country attacked by stalin's swarm yourself
Simo Häyhä: 🗿
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!!!"
"Small but strong" finland's title
Russia just spamming troops fr- Ron player
🇫🇮💪
Которая преобулась после блокады Ленинграда 😥😂
Don't do the thing to someone else that you don't wish to be done on yourself
how did you do that
Wow almost 400k
Viipuri is still under occupation
Удачи, ядерный грибок над Хельсинки стоит Выборга, вы готовы сгореть в ядерном пламени, которую вам пошлёт возможно даже не человек, а машина судного дня, как говорят на Западе мертвая рука.
Yea maybe Finland will get it back one day..
@@user-zi5cg9zm8sкак всегда, финны мечтают о геноциде, такова ваша нацисткая сущность, мы помним как вы провели геноцид в Выборге в 1918 году, уничтожали русские семьи, тех кто по глупости надеялся спастись от большевиков, мы помним концлагеря для русских детей. Неужели вы думаете, что после начала четвёртой войны, русские пощадят вас? Может быть вас всех стоит депортировать на землю Франца Иосифа или выгнать к шведским хозяевам.
@@user-fj6ru3bv8hmitä helvettiä oikein höpötät
@@user-zi5cg9zm8s nah, its a shithole now
pls continuation war 1941-1944
im from finland
Yay
"Unprovoked agression" it seems like Russia has a unhealthy habit of doing this throughout the years.
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.
Soviet losses have long been known for 92 thousand . There are a lot of studies on this subject, but who needs real data...
@@johnsch1988 "In 2013, Pavel Petrov stated that the Russian State Military Archive has a database confirming 167,976 killed or missing along with the soldiers' names, dates of birth and ranks."
English wikipedia. Plus the usual russian downscaling, as is done in Russian conquest attempt in Ukraine too, the real figures are horrifiyng for the people of russia. But, their own leaders do not care if their young lads are marched into slaughter in futile offensive wars. Not then, not now... that is sad.
Tu comentario vale cada letra en toneladas de oro
@@johnsch1988 you're desperate to make the soviets look good here lmao
@@canister6344 lol it's only history
It was also in this War that the legend of the White Death Was Born
Like the USSR was losing and Finland gave up Vyborg and part of the Northern Territories near Norway as a consolation
The soviet union broke through the Mannerheim line and they were rapidly advancing on Helsinki, with nothing to stop them. Finland ended up giving the Soviet Union way more than they asked for.
@@comrade_commissar3794 Russia lost the Winter War Russias true objective was to take the entire country of Finland and take away Finnish independence as a whole but failed, Russia lost the winter war and remember Russian communists lost to Finland during the Finnish war for independence/Finnish civil war in 1918 Russia lost the entire territory of Finland and merely taking back a tiny amount of territory in 1940, while taking humiliating losses in the process, is not enough to claim victory especially when Russias true objective was to take all of Finland and take away Finnish independence all together, its really embarrassing for Russia how their so called mighty army, 760,000 Russian soldiers vs 300,000 Finnish soldiers, Russian army outnumbered Finnish army by over 2.5-1 but Russia still lost, 3,880 Russian air crafts vs 114 Finnish air crafts, Russian air force outnumbered Finnish air force by over 34-1 but Russia still lost, 6,541 Russian tanks vs 32 Finnish tanks, Russian tank fleet outnumbered Finnish tank fleet by over 204-1 yet Russia still lost the war
@@comrade_commissar3794 what was more than they asked for that the finns gave to soviet union?
@@comrade_commissar3794 The soviets asked for the finns to remove all fortifications on the karelian isthmus (making helsinki and viipuri vulnerable), a military base in hanko, and a bunch of islands in the gulf of finland. Doesn't sound like a good deal, does it? They also were not rapidly advancing to helsinki, they hardly even reached viipuri.
@@canister6344the breakthrough of the Mannerheim line occurred on the eve of the onset of warm weather. Finland's desire to get away with it is obvious. If Finland had not done this, with each new week the attacks of the Soviet troops became more painful, including in the ratio of losses.
结尾芬兰版图错了
How do you make ur vids ?????
He made a tutorial in his channel
someone know where do he get all that information?
Finish were outnumbered 2 to 1, but the casualties were 5 to 1...
great grandfathere-ww2 grandfather-afganistan Father-checnia son- ukraine
When I read this Russia's modern history is just war.
@@cloverfinderboygamer3573
Same for the US really:
ww2, korea, vietnam, afghanistan, iraq, Libya. All in order.
@@cloverfinderboygamer3573like USA
@AR0300 No, my favorite country is 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
@@SweetPotatoNotFound2 US just sends troops everywhere, the Russians invade everyone
"This is not war, but ruthless aggression" So it's war then?
He said "this is not just war, but ruthless agression" implying that it is war, but also ruthless agression. Those two are not the same thing.
War is unneccessary violence, and it's ruthless in any war situation@@emil3458
@@hypnoex5282 Hmmm, well, i don't think a normal war would have been called ruthless, i think it's the slaughtering entire villages and bombing civilian infrastructure that is the ruthless part. But some people count that as a part of war so..
@@emil3458 Wars have rules and if they are broken then it's entirely fair to describe it as ruthless
Continuation war where
Теперь понятно от какого учится великий стратег ВладимВладимирович...
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".
Так, расскажите мне о вторжении Финляндии в часть Советской Карелии, которую вам и собирались отдать в качестве обмена территории, при этом вы сохраняли Выборг. Вы выбрали сторону тех, кто из людей делал мыло, вы создавали концлагеря для русских детей в Петрозаводске и злобный Сталин почему-то сохранил вам независимость, только вот заставил предать нацистов и ударить им в спину.
Did you realise that poland/Finland/baltics were part of the Russian empire? Ussr basically wants to regain its lost territories
@@AhmedBabiker-sr8fl Yes
@@AhmedBabiker-sr8flDid you know moscow was occupied by Poland? We should retake our own land. Damn what does Mongolia think about this?
@aulus3792 occupied? During a civil war, right? They lost it right back
Happiness ❤
Every minute in Finland a Soviet soldier died
second
After this, Stalin realized that the Red Army was outdated and began reform, thanks to Finland for the hints ! 🚩🤝🇫🇮
Their hints still did not work against the storm ⚡⚡
@@amiralirezaei2693Moscow before winter 😂😂😂😂
@@Yugoslav_Partisan communist detected. opinion invalid
@@amiralirezaei2693 I'm not a communist.
@amiralirezaei2693 how's the 6th army doing? How about your capital😂
yessssssssssssssssssssssss
Big part of those areas we lose Stalins red pen on the map. It was blackmailing. Bigger part on the continue war.
The absolute failure by Stalin.
I know you
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
900 000 civilians? Finland only had like 3 million people
yeah no 900k civilians didnt die. Finnish government says that Finland had 1000 civilian casualties during winter war.
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.
Yes! Finally someone understands!
wut de heilcopter
Respect Finland👍👍👍🇫🇮
If finland have 3million soldiers they easily can break soviet union
Finland's population (1939) was 3.9 million people😂
Can you do the Khmer civil war please
As a soviet general once said,
"we have won just enough land to bury our dead"
У Украины и Финляндии есть что-то общее
Оба легли под запад и выступали за фашистов
@@artetamentaТипично для россиян, которые верят оправданиям Путина, чтобы оправдать свое вторжение в Украину.
Финны проиграли войну за 2 месяца... 😂 Думаешь тоже ждёт Украину ??
@@artetamentaPutin nationalist?
@@artetamenta ussr are the n axis. Ussr were n azi allies.
Objectively evil people the soviets
Early!
Dont mess with finnish polarbears!😂
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?
Stalin was kind of famous for executing most of his high level army commanders.
Finlandia aguantó como un campeón 👑,pero no tanto contra la unión soviética 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
😂😂😂😂
Si la unión soviética sufrió muchas más bajas que Finlandia
@@Speed249And what? Still won lol
@@Sussybaka07075 That does not make it stronger, the USSR was very weak at the beginning and the war against Finland was unnecessary.
How is your ally n azi Germany doing@@Sussybaka07075
@@Speed249 más bajas si, pero ganó
Yo I’m first no way
u are third
@@JontoRBLX second prob
@@Amebaaboba zephyrRBX0 is second
Sovjet is using the same tactics to this day and the casualties are always bigger in Russian side.
штрум грозного? Война 2008 года? Война в Сирии? Война в Украине с примерно одинаковыми потерями?
in Finland war got Soviet 1940s
this puts on full display on how much of a joke the russian army is
Soviet
@@Efsaaneh what's the difference, both evil
Hitler moment😅
@@blazer9547 calling soviet things "russian" is a common tactic by ruzzian nationalists to justify "reuniting" them one day, plus historical accuracy matters
Ну вот Гитлер посчитал что оно так, только эта армия довела его до самоубийства в своём бункере, он так боялся попасть в Московский зоопарк, где ему было самое место.
impressive, how the heroic democratic nations UK, France, US were not give a shit... but when Germany attacked Poland, they immidiately got triggered
and they didn't even help poland. Poland got abandoned by all it's allies and left alone in the hands of germany and soviet union.
@@kessu1863 Because they were already invaded by the USSR, which suspiciously became an ally of Germany at that time.
Maybe Poland shouldn’t have attacked Czechoslovakia? After that, everyone turned their backs on it, the USSR tore up all the agreements, and returned the land occupied since 1920.@@kessu1863
They actually tried to help, it was norway that refused to give military and logistical acess into finland
Ussr were literal n azi allies.