Could also be for better equipments too, since Russian Oppressors only had massive vehicles for road movements, but no winter clothing or equipments for snow. Finnish equipments were not most modern, but light and fit to the conditions.

I passed through those forests travelling from Helsinki to St Petersburg 2 years ago. Gave me a sense of what tough terrain this is, especially in Winter. Truly a force multiplier if ever there was one.

Love the Finns as well and long live Finland 🇫🇮 greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪

@@tommymagnusson Love you too 🇫🇮🇸🇪

Just the fact that the Finns could all pretty much use cross-country skis made a huge difference. The Soviets had numbers the Finns had every other advantage and made the most of every single thing they had. It's not the first time a small number of defenders have defeated a huge number of attackers but its definitely one of the biggest and most impressive times.

exactly

The first dokumented use of motti-tactics is from 16th century when a small force of skiers with crossbows fought off a superior Russian force on the Carelian isthmus outside Viborg.

They were extremely mobile in the freezing weather and used to extreme effectiveness. They inflicted 5x the casualties on the Soviets. They were actually using reindeer teams to move their machine guns and artillery pieces. A reindeer team can haul up to 700 pounds of gear for 8 hours at a time without stopping in absolutely crippling cold. The Russian trucks and tanks were having trouble with the terrain and the cold weather.

@@yankees29 Santa doesn't hand out gifts to bad kids, and to russians. He gives the muzzle.

@@Tyrfingr yes indeed . Yuri got a stocking full of coal. Got their asses kicked big time.🤣

What little equipment there was available was mostly concentrated on the Isthmus, where the Soviets focused their offensive also. Equipment situation was not exactly ideal at the best of times in this war.

Or possibly even "Saatana." BTW: Loved your work at Austerlitz, Jena & Friedland.

Seems legit.

@@Perkelenaattori Lets say that it was "Ei perkeleen saatana" or "Ei saatanan perkele".

@puks roope Vittua nää selität, sanoit "If you don't know word perkele you are not to Finland" Ookko kännissä tai jtn?

No. It's almost illegal to be proud of our history and heritage.

@@poowaffle so you are saying that its almost illegal to be proud that we dont speak russian rn

Amazing. Welcome to the channel. I'll try to do a more general Talvisota video for the finale this year.

I live in finland

Hold my Minttu!

@@rhoddryice5412 Hold my makkara If you aren't sure what that means,it means sausage.

@@miksoinen2546 hold my KALJA(beer)

@@tuulasuikki1455 hold my hockey stick

Hold my mämmi

How about the Ukrainian losses?

@@corvusduluth ukrainian = russian back then :DD

they had no national identity because of russian empire that banned ukrainian in ukraine :D@@corvusduluth

They only sent volunteers. If sweden had sent a real military force the out come of this whole war would have been way different

@Tearjerker those 1170 horses were alive

Oulun torilla tavataan, perkele!

And finns can pronounce english so well?

@@diamondsarenotforever8542 Depends, English is usually the only foreign language we know. Atleast for me, If I concentrate on pronouncing it, I can speak pretty much the same as Americans, but if I'm tired, I start being sloppy.

@@diamondsarenotforever8542 Most of us do. Especially the younger generation.

@@diamondsarenotforever8542 As you can see on the map at 1:00, it's misspelled. It's not about the pronunciation.

Thank you.

Mut kukaan ei tarjoa juustoa sen leivän ja voin kaveriksi....

@@Pikkabuu Ei passaa olla liian antelias :P

Ei kuitenkaa olis ollu mitään leipää jos olis käynyt hakemassa.

yes to be honest I'm not so sure about that one either. And I have caught a few other mistakes by the author I got this from whenever I read about Talvisota, so I'm not sure.

There was some leaflets but they were so efective that they become obsolete.

@OrangeManBad I got the same one.

You greeks were just as brave in WW2 :)

Winter war are the most difficult videos.

@@ww2-epicbattles why?

thank you so much. And I have some big plans for next year.

@@ww2-epicbattles can't wait to watch them :)

Raate. The double a means it's long as in fAther. Finnish doesn't have the 2 th sounds of English, so we Finns would spell that word 'faadör', and mother as 'madör'. Then matter we would spell 'mätör'. Ratte would be said like 'rut-teh'. That teh is best achieved by saying 'tet' (or bet), like the English speakers who drop the last t - so not as 'tay' - Finnish spelling 'tei' (like vein).Furtherspelling ee means just that eh sound stretched long (same with all the vowels) - important because all the ei, ee & single e happen frequently. Compare the mother and father 'a & aa' above. Texas drawl might help in Finnish :)

@@timomastosalo cool story bro. raate ratte, sama mies eri verkkarit. I think we all know what he means knowing the context off this comment section. And he's 100% right these are good tactics and these are not so popular. There are bit some tension when talking about the winter war on open platforms. Russians still view these conflicts in their own way. Not much is told there about the molotov ribbentrop pact secret protocol and if it's viewed, it's "necessary evil" said by Putin.😏 And the start off the conflict "mainilan laukaukset" are still said by Russian government channels that it was Finns that provoked them first or it is still unclear. Yes in 1989 and 1990 Russian admited the truth about these things but with Putins dictatorship the view point of these things have changed. Actually the whole nation is changing. Making closed internet for the nation. China is selling them the tech. And they are banning or not letting global platforms be part of their society. They have started making their own news media, social network etc etc. " At a press conference on 19 December 2019, Putin went further and announced that the signing of the pact was no worse than the 1938 Munich Agreement, which led to the partition of Czechoslovakia."in Krim Ukraine conflict. The propaganda structure during mainilan laukaukset was seen again in Krim conflict.

@@sampov8498 That comparison to the oartition of Czechoslovakia back fires: both are as wrong, bigger nations bullying the smaller ones. So it doesn't give it approval. I'm aware of the change after the early 90s - lived through those times as a young adult already. And the separate news source there has been working for 10 years or more. I mentioned the Raate road because English speakers can spell filer and filler, and notice the difference. I would get it if it was some name like Köyliöistenniitty. that not every letter or dot is there - but Raate doesn't have many strange moving parts. I'd rate it having just A difficulty . awkward as aardvark. And they write Greek names correctly, which are longer and more complex than Raate, they just usually drop the Greek endins, in the names off Antiquity. So it's just a too sloppy reading - which is even easy to fix, so I won't let that just slip. There's that same great country attitude as with other great powers, not caring enough. The Greek names they care about, coz it's linked with the idea of the roots of tehir civilization being there - so it's like owning the culture of Antiquity as your 'own history' - and the difficult names seem to form no problem to learn.

Let's be fair, soldiers motivated by propaganda have achieved impressive feats at multiple points in history: the Assassins proved that in the Crusades, as did the Hitler Youth at Berlin. The individual Soviet soldier often fought bravely, but he was let down by inadequate training, inexperienced leadership, and inflexible tactical doctrine.

@@stephenwood6663 Propaganda has its use , when is a substitute for training , adequate equipment and leadership as it were for red army , is pure stupidity .

@@mecho68 The Red Army's failures in training and leadership were, in large part, the result of its simultaneous expansion, and the purging of its officer corps. The former was going to result in inexperienced troops seeing combat, and there was very little way around that. The latter had a lot to do with Stalin's fears of a military coup. These fears were not unfounded (some of Trotsky's supporters actively pleaded with him to use a coup to reclaim power!), so I hesitate to call them 'stupid', but their deletrous results on the Red Army's effectiveness are undeniable.

@@trumpjongun8831 Nyhän sie vitsin murjasit voi, että mie sain nauraa makiasti.

Yes, just so it happens I've been thinking about Operation Bagration recently. This is the shame how one of the greatest offensive operations of WWII doesn't get that much attention on historical channels.

@@Kopyrda Yes, it is weird how operations like Barbarossa and Typhon get so much attantion despite their failure. While the success of Bagration seems to have faded.

yeah this is the problem I always have when searching for Talvisota information. One source is contradicting the other and I have no way to confirm which one is correct.

One more reason for me to finish my feature length documentary which is relevant with Russia's agressive stance.

one of the best ww2 movies.

None of the different sources I used mentioned the commander actually using an aircraft to escape. It's so difficult to find precise, legit informations on Talvisota.

maybe I didn't forget but didn't know because english sources about talvisota are rare.

@@ww2-epicbattles Ok

Onks siel ees mitään :D joku sale ja kyläbaari.

@@allualex2606 Ei täällä ole mitään :DD Joku K-Marketti ja muita liikkeitä ja kauppoja ainakin

@@vKit_ Onks siel joku muisto homma liittyen toho Raatteentiehen?

@@allualex2606 On täällä tuo Raatteen Portti fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raatteen_Portti

1 Finn = 10 Russians

@@allualex2606 1=10 is December and January. Then the attitude towards the enemy changed. When it became clear that the Red Army faced a serious opponent, the ratio of irretrievable losses changed. The result is 1 to 5.

@@rurikhistorik6338 and those are just official numbers. Probably way more soviets died in Finland than reported.

@@allualex2606 It is very difficult to turn over the consciousness of the European man in the street about the Winter War. In February 1940, during the capture of Fort Poppius and other important defense nodes, there were no endless chains of Soviet soldiers. From the beginning there were "Stalin's sledgehammers" - 203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4). Then there was a company of scouts with a company of sappers. The same myths about the Mongol army of the 13th century that they took in quantity and they sent countless crowds to the walls of the city.. No, they had excellent technology. As one of the smart people said, "Stalin is Genghis Khan with a telegraph."

@@rurikhistorik6338 Finnish destroyed Russians with high kd and superior tactics and morale.

There has to a separate video about this historic person. I've read about him. Very interesting.

The Army of the Isthmus was composed of six divisions under the command of Hugo Österman. The II Army Corps was positioned on its right flank and the III Army Corps, on its left flank. The IV Army Corps was located north of Lake Ladoga. It was composed of two divisions under Juho Heiskanen, who was soon replaced by Woldemar Hägglund. The North Finland Group was a collection of White Guards, border guards and drafted reservist units under Wiljo Tuompo. That is a cpy from wikipedia Winter war page. It seems to be quite accurate. There is more accurate description in some sources, but those are in books written in Finnish.

In the Finnish army less than one thousand.

I mean the 10:56 sounds so badass so lets just pretend its true

He's a full time voice actor. We all pay him to narrate in our videos.

no. we just hire the same voice actor.

@@ww2-epicbattles Okay, thats still cool because he is really fitting for these kinds of videos

@@Mokkilaituri real question here is: are you Aake Kalliala?

yes it's him

that's because it's him.

Öö mitenniin et believe?

You mean finns?

No, we would not. Stop even dreaming about that. No more wars, what has been in the past shall stay there. Lets not repeate mistakes.

@@TheNismo777 war is inevitable and necessary if there is to be peace, think about it if hitler had won WW2 there would be a constant state of proxy wars all over the globe still fighting the nazis and they’re idea of a dystopian era where the third Reich rules for a thousand years, look it up they weren’t fighting for freedom only we were and we won so there is peace between a lot of countries not all but still

hey Erich. Nice to see you here

Onko tanki online hyvä peli

@@xuserx67 ihan paska

no you're just listening to the same voice actor.

You think Soviets or germans are not aware of cold weather? Not very clever? It was significantly long supply line and it was also one of the coldest winters ever recorded

@@ripvanwinkle1819 soviets started 30. 11. Frost should not be surprise. Suply lines were not so long

@@brianoidperson true, ask the dead russians in Finland tho