Story about the one of the greatest war heroes of Finland.

Its time for a story about one of the greatest war heroes that Finland has to offer: Simo Häyhä. This post was inspirated by iAdrenalines badass of the week -theme.

When you think of Finland, the first thing that comes in to your mind, isn't the word military powerhouse. Likewise if you look at Simo Häyhä, skinny Finnish farmer who was under five feet tall, you wouldn't think, that he would become an unstoppable killing machine.  Oh well, what do you know.

Simo Häyhä doing what he does best. Fucking up russians.

It all begin when Häyhä was spending his days farming, hunting and crushing giant logs into sawdust with his bare hands, until Soviets decided to fuck with Finland with a staged artillery shots and start a war to invade Winland. Simo was called up into service and he was issued with a good old M28/30 rifle, which is an russian made rifle and which Häyhä has hunted with it all of hes life. The thing that made Simo, the unstoppable force that fucks up russians non stop, was his knowledge of the forests, his enduring patience and his impeccable rifle marksmanship. He would dress up in all-white camouflage, sneak through the woods with only a day's worth of food and couple clips of ammunition, and then lie in wait for any Russian stupid enough to wander into his killzone. 

Simo Häyhä ready to fuck up russians.

His first battle-experience came in the hard-fought Kollaa campaign when temperatures at the time ranged from -20 to -40 degrees Celsius which is like 68 ºF to 104 ºF and if you still dont get it, its gold as fuck and the entire forest was covered with several feet of snow. His personal best during, Kollaa campaign, was fucking twenty-five kills in a single day.  He would become the top fragger of Finnish army and getting his nickname from Russian Army as they called him The White Death. One point in the war Russians become so desperate, that they tried to take him out by launching a goddamned artillery strikes on locations in which they guessed he might be hiding. After that didin't work, Russians sent their own snipers to take him out, but Simo managed to win those duels every time. You see, Häyhä didin't use a telescopic sight.  He preferred to use the rifles regular iron sights because it allowed him to present a smaller target, and because several of the russian snipers he smoked, were given away by a glint of light reflecting off the lenses of their scopes. Finally, near end of the Winter War during a random assault, some random russian got a lucky shot at Simo Häyhä, hitting him in the jaw with an explosive round. Simo went into coma and was pulled of the field by his brothers in arms. He would finally awake eleven days later, on the same day that the Winter War ended.

The Winter War ended as a victory for Finland.  The Red Army captured a mere 22,000 square miles of territory and lost close to one million men, more than forty times the number of Finnish casualties.  Simo Häyhä received five medals for valour, including the prestigious Kollaa Cross, and was express-promoted from corporal to second lieutenant. Häyhä raked in a total of 505 confirmed sniper kills, some sources indicates, that he got 542 kills, and he killed two hundred men with a Suomi 9mm submachine gun, bringing his total kill count to over 700 men in under just a 100 days. Nobody in history has ever been credited with more confirmed kills than Simo Häyhä.  

                                          

                                      Say what you say but you have to respect the man!