Royal Marine Reacts To Simo Häyhä | The Deadliest Sniper In Military History

HERE WE GO! Simo Häyhä | The Deadliest Sniper In Military History by Weird History! This guy was incredible!

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[ForgottenHonor]

Whenever someone asked him how he got so good at marksmanship, Simo simply replied, "Practice."

[Spetulhu]

And Simo never bragged about killing people. He just stated he had done what was asked of him as well as he could. He didn't hate the men he killed but it had to be done. If they had come in peace he would happily have offered them food and a hunting trip.

War is hell.

[ForgottenHonor]

Americans have Vietnam flashbacks, Russians have Finland flashbacks.

[Drknss]

In Russia, everybody's gangsta until the snow starts speaking suomi

[arttuuusisalo]

" hit a target 16 times in a minute" keep in mind that the rifle that Simo was using only has 5 bullets in a clip 😬

[Tylran]

A few inaccuracies with this particular video:
-Häyhä wasn't shot by a sniper, but a Soviet infantryman. Had he been alone in a sniper's nest, he might've died.
-Häyhä froze the snow in front of his barrel, not his barrel, in order to prevent the fumes from puffing the smoke in front of the gun barrel. The snow in mouth also prevented vapor from forming.
-He also disliked the sniper scopes because the lens would get foggy and freeze over in the cold winter.

He was asked once how did he feel about his deeds during the Winter War, and he simply responded: "I did my job as well as I could". He never really liked the fame of being the deadliest sniper of all time.

[HafdirTasare]

I love the part where they send out a countersniper, knewing his general position, both snipers lurking for 3 days and waiting for one to make the first movement, until the russian sniper decided to leave since he thought Häyhä was not in the area.

That was when Simo took the shot.

What a fucking beast of a Rifleman.

[Pyllymysli]

Later after the war, during a interview Simo was asked how did he accomplish this unblevieable feat. Simo replied that he had been given a job to do, and he did it as well as he could.

[zimbabwejim]

A "fun" fact: Since days are real short at these latitudes during the winter, Häyhä had more kills than hours of daylight in that war.

[RetiredBrass]

6:18 reminds me of this story: at one time, the Soviets heard a man shouting from the nearby woods "One Finnish soldier is better than 10 Soviets!" Annoyed, they sent a squad of 10 soldiers to deal with this man. Shots are heard, then silence. Suddenly, they hear again "One Finnish soldier is better than 50 Soviets!". Getting angry, they now send in 50 soldiers. Again shooting, screaming, then silence. The unseen man shouts again "One Finnish soldier is better than 100 Soviets!". Really pissed, the Soviets now send 100 soldiers. Shooting, screaming, silence. But this time, one survivor returns. He reports to his commanding officer and begs him "Please sir, don't send any more men. It's a trap! There are actually two of them!"

[davidtheamazing]

Before going to bed, every Russian checks their closet and under their bed for snow that speaks Finnish.

[maxeriksson]

When someone asked Simo ”What did you feel when you shot enemy soldiers?” He replied ”The Recoil”

[nielsbrinchsimonsen]

I read a quote from a Soviet officer, whose men and equipment was being neutralized in guerrila style attacks from the Finnish soldiers, he said that the first Finnish soldiers he saw during the war was the ones capturing him - The soviets was not prepared for the nightly surprise attacks and probably often didn't even see their attackers

[Pugiron]

500 confirmed with his rifle, 200 confirmed with his sub-machine gun. No numbers for his unconfirmed kills.

[julianaFinn]

As a Finn, I know about him, but not in such detail. Hunting is a big part of Finland, and my father taught me to shoot at age 7. (Rifle was bigger than me and papa had to hold me upright lol). Loved this video! Thank you for the respect for my country 🇫🇮🇫🇮👍

[theblackbear]

A man who has hunted in the forest for game, for 14 years, with the same rifle, a man who had won marksmanship trophies for years - with the same rifle,
a man who could place 16 aimed shots in a minute - with his bolt action rifle, on his home turf, facing ill trained invading troops.
Some units were completely wiped out in large scale ambushes.
What the Finns did to the Russians that winter was the work of experts against neophytes.

[LesterJA]

Imagine Simo being a overprotective father and saying to the boyfriend: “I killed over 500 men and I’m not afraid to kill you”

[marcusberggren]

I'm Swedish but my grandmother was born in 1931 so she was young when the 2nd world war and consequently the winter war broke out. She was shuttled to safety in Sweden as many Finnish kids were then during the war. Her brother died in that war at the age of 19. Their home were part of the part of Karjala which is now Russian but was then Finnish.

[joshuaswanson]

The Swedish metal band wrote a song about Simo called White Death. The vast majority of their songs deal with historical battles and soldiers. Lauri Törni, Lawrence of Arabia, Audie Murphy, Witold Pilecki, Alvin York, the Charlie Brown/Franz Stigler incident, the all female Russian 588th night bomber regiment, the "Attack of the dead men" at Osowiec Fortress and on and on. They also have a second YouTube channel called Sabaton History where the discuss the history behind the song.

Just thought you might be interested.😁

[jane_c_ha]

There's even a song in that deadliest sniper