@Kings and Generals I have fluffy relatives who lived in similar climates. They were covered in thick feathers that kept them warm in the cold temperatures. As always another excellent video. Only you guys can make an era I dont study fascinating

It's better to skip 20th century wars.

Arabic?

Good video!A history of epic and brave. Expecting you can consider greco-italian war I sggusted.

Hey kings and generals make on 1965 India-Pakistan war.

He really does deserve his own documentary.

@@Jokakutihut1 Mannerheim remained an imperial loyalist all throughout his life and kept a signed portrait of the old czar in his study. When visitors asked why he kept a painting of the long dead czar he said always said simply, "b/c he is my emperor." He blamed himself for losing the Russian Civil War where he was a general on the Whites and the execution of the royal family. There is a fascinating book about him - "The Horse that Leaps through Clouds."

@@dinolandia8978 might give it a read thanks

He respected and even loved old Russia but hated Stalin’s USSR. As you say he lead Russian troops in WW1. Started as a ‘one star’ general (brigade) 1914 and ended it as a ‘three star’ general LtGen (corps) 1917. Not sure he participated in the Russian civil war after the revolution. He was busy fighting for Finnish independence after 1917

@@scepticalwalker3984 Finland never fought for intependence, it was given to them from Lenin. The whites in Finland did fight against the majority red population with German aid tho.

If they shit themselves, they should at least shout about a great victory and unprecedented courage.))) I've always been amused by such people!))) (I'm talking about the Finns.) :D

@@user-it3ve2bl7j I find your comment amusing,but I`m laughing at you only for different reasons.

@@Karlosangeles1 I'm talking about the Finns))

@@user-it3ve2bl7j I can understand the humiliation of being defeated by a much smaller and poorly equipped defender..

@@Karlosangeles1 Are you schizophrenic?))

They just practiced for the winter olympics

It comes from Norway, actually:)

Aaro Pajari, a man of the meme. Also, Siilasvuo. The artist of Raatteentie

same applies for penthatle in the summer olympics, all military exercise sports

Has to be my favourite Winter Olympic event..

My grandfather was in train to be sent to front when he was pulled out of the train to his disappointment. He was only phone mechanic and reapair guy in vital communication hub. Spend his war riding harley davidson and racing to repair lines after soviet bombings...

I sympathize with you friend. War can be a terrible affair.

After watching a video about toy soldiers maneuvering on the map, I'm thankful that you wrote a comment like this. The whole generation of men were if not killed, mutilated physically and/or psychologically. You can only imagine the long term impact of that to the small country including women, children and children's children. Everyone lost something. As a Finn history nerd, big thumbs up for the video tho. Totally looking forward to the next episode!

Tali-Ihantala was probably one of toughest fights there was. Whole Landscape changed with artillery barrages in a day.

As I know from history, the battle of Tali-Ihantala was decisive for Finland, as soviets advanced there straight after they have taken Viipuri and there was a question will they make a breakthrough towards Helsinki or not. Finnish commandment understood that and thrown into this battle basically everything they had and won it, which was the last victory of the fins in WW2, but at very big cost, so at the same time they were unable to stop the soviet advance to the north of Ladoga. After this defeat soviet marshal Govorov asked for more reinforcements to continue his advance towards Helsinki and "to break that Finnish spine" as he said, but Stalin refused, saying that the outcome of the war will be decided in Berlin, not in Helsinki. He definitely realised that price of this victory might be too big, as soviets already had once before. Actually, Russian historians even today don't like to mention this battle. So despite this tragic end you must be proud of your Greatgrandfather.

I would have given 50 kilometer or more but I am an ameeba without a spine. There is a Finnish saying: "If you give your small finger to the Devil he will eventually come to demand your arm!"

Thanks for watching!

The best intro to the Winter War, everything was accurate and right. Also, a right amount of pre-war history is needed to understand the whole shabang.

@@morzh1978 Yes, you're right son.

@@morzh1978 That the Swedish State treated Finnish-speakers unequally is a myth man.

@@morzh1978 Finnish wasnt forbidden in Swedish times. It was just not used in administration since the administrators weren't Finnish-speakers. And Åland has never been Finnish-speaking, why should they have to use it?

Thanks you we never forget. 🙏💙

true heroes every last man

Despite the fact that they could get a large territory from the Soviets without a war and without losing Finnish territory as a result of the war. No matter what you say, Stalin's demand to move the border away from Leningrad was quite reasonable.

@@AWtify Reasonable or not they lost that's all that matters.

@@AWtify We do not negotiate with terrorists.

Christian, good joke. But there were other finnish commanders besides mannerheim who played key roles in the winter war

I am well aware of this fact! :) I don´t know why you felt the need to point this out

This is not a joke but "true" story. Stalin had respect for Mannerheim. He was only "white russian general" left alive after purges. And he had served imperial Russia. After ww2 communists wanted to have Mannerheim trialed as war criminal (logic was not big thing in war crime trials) it was said commrade stalin was not at all pleased with idea. And Mannerheim was president after the war couple of years...

Actually, soviet bombers appeared in Helsinki and bombed capital. Thus starting war. Finland (3.5 million inhabitants) is not stupid enough to declare war on 170 million Soviets. No matter what soviet history says. It just dont happen. Size matters.

soviets won the war in 44 lol

How does the snow sounds like in Karelia?

From what I heard grandfathers speak, it was very cold, but when in front fighting, you didnt feel because of fear of death. And nobody talked. Everybody kept very quiet untill very end.

ebin :DDDD

It should be "tulta munille" which was the Finnish war cry. It translates to "fire at balls".

More like when the snow is kind of like back home in russia but smelling faintly of coffee and a liberal outlook.

The Finns acting gangsta until a large scale soviet offensive

Finnish soldiers kept very low profile. Soviet Union had two very powerful weapons, airforce and artillery. Russian artillery is not called god of battlefield for nothing. And with 20 against 1 ratio, yes there was gangsta around, but it certainly didnt speak finnish.

even tho the Finns lost, history remembers them as the true winners

Then it's probably the most pathetic victory the world has ever seen :D

@پاسدار فرد Александр what about the continuation war, they won it, they took what they wanted, and that counted as victory even tho they lost

Love Finland from Poland !!! ;-)

BatMax every Poland hates Russia ？is that true ？

@@tjq1888 We just hate russian imperialism. We don't have anything against russian people.

@@tsarnature6587 you too joseph!

Not this year. South of Finland is all black. No skiing or skating in nature...bummer.

Nice reference!

In der tat

Yes and I hope Ukraine right now is as successful.

@Ginno Ricci your profile pic fits just perfectly...

Finland: I'm about to ruin this army's whole career.

Stalin, stop, this is my no-no square

@Ginno Ricci: Muslims are about 2.7% of the population in Finland.

@@seneca983 That's about 2,7% too many imo

Just like against David. Goliath mocked God before the fight. So God instructed and supported David to win,

Wait... was David defeated by Goliath? I thought it was the other way around.

@@alekseyibragimov9873 Yeah, this time David didn't defeat Goliath. But he won what he aimed to win, his life. And anyway, there's nothing with which to defend what Goliath did. Bullies are bullies. If it happened downtown in front of a police or militia, the police would put the big bully in jail, even though the small guy didn't die. Well, if the bully wasn't one of the police.

@@timomastosalo If David didn't cooperate with criminals, he woudn't have to be shackled and strip-searched. Twice.

@@alekseyibragimov9873 Once - the ratalion trip, to get back what was stolen from him. And being forsaken by UK, USA and France they was only left this Austrian who wanted to be German, a dark haired dude who wanted to be blonde. First time the Goliath attacked because he was suspicious. Bit there was no ruse against him But he made one to start to war - with field guns and ammo the little guy didn't have. David fought that fight without the help of those criminals. UK & France even planned to help, though they had selfish motives concerning Narvik & Kiruna. And they sold out the little guy. The Western allies abndoned the little country by the Baltic. There was only 2 evils left to choose: to let the bear eat you, or join the wolfpack to fight the bear. Well, there was no Axis pact signed, so that far it didn't go. Finland saw the war preparations of Stalin - they were sure he would atatck again, the signs were in the air. They thought the smaller risk was to attack then, when the Germans did too. So, actually with the 39-40 war Stalin got what he feared: Finland now fought against him with Germany. An example why we shouldn't believe our fears, we might mke them happen by our fearful actions. And Finland wasn't a Nazi country: it was a democratic many party country with socialists almost the biggest one. The extreme left and right were small: the communists were not in fashion, and the right wing extremists made a failed coup in the early 30's, so their leaders were arrested, and their support diminished. After WWII their party became illegal.

I have so much admiration for the fins! (From a Brit)

@Noname me too bro ! Kurealia will be free again onesmore !

I am proud of my granddad too, he removed commies in yugoslavia.

My grandad was in this war. He was officer, i have seen his medals in my grandmoms home. He died when i was young boy. He was a good man but when he drinked the demons off war game out. My morher hated, feared and loved him. Sober he was good husband and good father, but war broke him and in the end, war won.

@@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621 the balkan became shit after Titos and the communist was removed.

Welcome aboard!

Damn me for being alseep when it was first uploaded.

Almost as fast as Sweden prevented English and French volutaries coming to Help Finland at hour of its need. But ordinary Swedish people with arms did help and thanks for that. But Swedish socialist government..

Without Swedish iron ore , ball bearings and Norwegian fish...oil...nazi Germanys world war would have been strangled in its infancy. I always wondered how royal navy screwd Norway so good.

History does but economical and political facts dont change. Finland -Russia realtions after ww2 were complicated but relatively well handled by president Kekkonen. No matter who is in chargec(besides socialists) you need to feed and employ your population.

@Stick me thumbs in yer ass The Soviet Union was wrong to invade Finland, but the Fins made it clear they were a rival by joining the anti-communist pact with the axis before the war. And during the continuation war, they killed a lot of Soviet Civilians, Finland was no Saint, and The Soviet Union still saved humanity from the Axis in the end.

Нет

Some 1200 Danes volunteered to fight in the Winter War (including some excellent pilots), many who died defending Finland. We Finns will never forget their sacrifices for our country.

It seems K&G now has a video on that as well.

There is a section about Mannerheim's Petrograd designs on his Finnish wikipedia page, though it's absent from the English version for some reason. Essentially Mannerheim, who'd made a decades-long career in the Imperial Russian Army and had many friends among the Russian white leadership, was a committed anti-bolshevik and would've wanted to lead his victorious White Guards to assist the Russian whites by taking Petrograd. However, this fell apart because the great powers weren't ready to fund the expedition (Finland's economy was a wreck after the civil war and there was a wide spread food shortage). Also the various White Russian groups were opposed to independence movements in the former empire and didn't want to recognize Finnish independence. At home Mannerheim lost the presidential election to Ståhlberg, who was more moderate and wanted to focus on rebuilding Finland and reuniting the divided nation rather than launching risky military ventures. So eventually Mannerheim's plans came to nothing and he retired from politics for the time being. It's interesting to speculate what would have happened if Finland had attacked Petrograd from the north while Yudenitsh attacked from the south in the fall of 1919.

Besides Vickers there were also Renault FTs, I believe.

@@Oxtocoatl13 Thanks for taking the time to educate me! Much appreciated. I had always thought the Soviet claims/fears of Finland attacking Leningrad (before WW2) to have been an idea without any basis in reality. However, now thinking about it, the combination of the voluntary expeditions to East-Karelia, the plans for an attack on Petrograd, the close ties to Germany and the general anti-bolshevik attitude after the Whites won the Civil War - I am beginning to understand now. Naturally, after the Bolsheviks won their civil war in Russia, I don't think anyone in Finland would have been stupid enough to try to pull off that stunt, but overall it does give some basis to Soviet demands.

@@seneca983 Ah, how could I forget! It's true, the Renaults were the only operational tanks Finland had at the start of the war. However, they were from WW1 era and useless in combat, which I think they never saw. I think I remember reading they were disassembled and used as fixed position guns on the Karelian Isthmus.

@@Oxtocoatl13 Interesting because Mannerheim refused to attack Leningrad for Hitler in WWII

We rest easy in here, you guys keep the East side of border Russian free and we keep the Northern / Baltic side clean =) Also Poland can rely on our help if it comes to that.

General winter helped both sides in this war. It helped the finns at first since soviet troops were not prepared for such harshness at first and deep snow hindered movement. On the other hand, frozen lakes gave soviet troops and tanks much more options to maneuver and attack.

how is it to live in Murmansk? Are there many Sami left?

@@gilgameschvonuruk4982 It is nice to live in Murmansk, but mostly in summer time. Otherwise it is cold and dark. However now it makes no diffirence where do You live - most of the people everywhere in the world locked themselves at theirs homes)) Saami people live in central part of Murmansk region as well as in Murmansk itself. The number of Saami people is the same for many year - about 2 000 people. I have Saami and half-Saami among my friends.

If Stalin had succeeded 1939 - 40 and the Finnish-Karelian Socialist Republic was established, the northern Europe would have developed differently. Sweden could not have remained neutral in WW2, Germany could not have reached Leningrad. The Soviet Union would have been much stronger with easier sea borders to defend. It would have won the race not only to Berlin but further west as far as it wanted to go, it could have crushed Germany without the allies. In the continuation war, the Finnish army was already 500 000 men strong, and to keep the balance, the Soviet Union had to keep divisions in Carelia instead of using them further south. My opinion is that if Finland had been occupied, there would not be independent Finland nor Independent Estonia today. There would be a much stronger and bigger Russia.

@@MurmanskRU But there was Karelo-Finnish SSR in any case but it was annexed to the Russian SSR in 1956. Not sure if that would have happened had all of Finland been conquered.

They say that Finland is the most beautiful country in the world. Assumption is that you are going as a tourist. :-)

@@KingsandGenerals yeah and not as a warfighter LoL

@@22vx you mean invading war soldier

@@KingsandGenerals I can definitely confirm that it is quite beautiful here. Sincerely, a Finn

@@FinnishPatriot oh Finland, a beautiful country with nice people, saunas, days of complete darkness, and the ones who took the shit out of Russians during winter.

Ja mitä tämän pitäisi tarkoittaa?

@@juliushakala5148 Emt, jotkut asiat o itsestää selvyyksii mutt jossain o väärin käsityksii kute Mainilan laukaukset...