The Winter War using Google Earth

Made using Google Earth.
The Winter War from start to finish.

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[mapsinanutshell]

ℹ: *1 flag = ~10, 000 soldiers*

[baconhairbacana]

The K/D ratio for Finland is insane, they really knew their own landscape very well.

[jesd]

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)

[Talangenz]

This made Hitler believe that Soviet was weak

[BGwxlf]

As a soviet general once said,

"we have won just enough land to bury our dead"

[calebhatesthings]

The Soviet Union suffered 5x more casualties than finland which is INSANE

[alexp]

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.

[halimk]

Mannerhein is a Finn hero and the greatest Finn of all time.

[shatterquartz]

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."

[karilang]

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.

[informinform]

"Hi, I'm Finland and I fought a gigantic military behemoth praticaly by myself and avoided being made into a soviet shithole".

[MrErdem]

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.

[jabbathehutt]

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.

[nitin]

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

[AnimatedWarMapper]

Very well made mate! Cheers, keep up the great work

[karilang]

Stalin wanted to take Finland in 2 weeks as a birthday present for him self.

[sagaxion]

"They are so many and our country so small... where shall we find space to bury them all?"

[CJFashi]

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.

[Doxxieeee]

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!

[Brruh_]

It's kinda shocking that one soldier killed 500+ Soviets in the 350k casualties