Comments by "Jussi M. Konttinen" (@jussim.konttinen4981) on "The Battle of Tali-Ihantala 1944 | WW2 Battlestorm Documentary" video.

  1.  @halflifeapc8777  Finland exists. RIP USSR. Case closed 😜
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  2. Due to geography, explained in the previous video. They had a tight schedule. Btw Napoleon and Alexander did it. That is why Sweden has The House of Bernadotte. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaties_of_Tilsit
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  3. I don't think so. Largest in Finland.
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  4.  @kaletovhangar  Not that I'm I disputing your findings, but wing commander Lauri Pekuri was trained in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was not an open society, we can never know for sure. Besides, this was an artillery (only) battle.
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  5. Ethnic origins of the Russians https://youtu.be/ZaoKr4pYbEY
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  6. They have since banned mines to facilitate the entry of Russians, but the army has still not been disbanded. I think it (Ottawa Treaty) is a mistake because demining technology has improved. To my recollection, Finnish troop numbers peaked peaked in the 1970s. After all, we wouldn’t have needed the Army if there was no threat.
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  7.  @picklickwick  Yes, when it's broken down into smaller units, we are talking about football hooliganism, Minnesota and gangs. Otherwise, social conservatism and defending property, which is centrism or right-leaning.
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  8.  @johnburns4017  However, majority opinion has always been very anti-Russian, even racist. https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Рюсся Finlandization is a pejorative term for Kekkonen's foreign policy invented by right-wingers. Paavo Lipponen was a Stasi collaborator. Kekkonen was not. He was clearly a centrist politician. Although it's rumored that Kekkonen took uppers in Yugoslavia (pervitin?) and couldn't stop talking, it happened after The Tito–Stalin Split. No harm done: https://youtu.be/BsfKj6bb-Pk
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  9.  @johnburns4017  Where is their goal exactly? Did they achieve it?
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  10.  @Makapaa  It's public information. You don't have to research much when you find that the number of Finnish KIAs is exaggerated. There are e.g. women who died of diseases in Central Finland, people died of german mines in the 1950s, not to mention all non-Germans are counted as Finns. Of course, still a lot of fallen.
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  11.  @halflifeapc8777  .."decisively militarily defeated" Not exactly a fate of Poland. Every step to the northwest is a withdrawal from Berlin. That's why, the outcome is not seen as a victory, but a miracle and a lottery win.
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  12.  @heikkisallinen9012  Life in a gypsy camp.
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  13. All peoples have the right to self-determination. I think the Papuan tribes are a bit too tribal, though.
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  14. Probably AA hit every time they fired at the flock.
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  15.  @johnburns4017  It's complicated, because Lithuania has long been under Polish influence, not to mention the Soviet Union. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Euler_Diagram_for_Baltoscandia.jpg
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  16.  @kaletovhangar  Problem is that they had resentment against each other right from the start. If you ask a kyrgyz, you will get a different answer than from Ukraine. Btw. There are more people in Kyrgyzstan than in Finland.
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  17. I feel like they were qualified at this point, but in a country suitable for defense, it is not physically possible to progress below 1:3 k / d. Marshal Leonid Govorov criticized heavily the commanders when the offensive had not yielded any concrete results despite of the intolerably heavy casualties. They themselves talk about the swamp to this day. More than 100,000 lakes and who knows how many islands, still rising from the sea.
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  18.  @freedomfrogs4847  You could say that. In the case of Finland, either NATO or EU membership makes sense. It's not necessary to pay for duplicate fire insurance.
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  19.  @freedomfrogs4847  Well, they're both NATO
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  20. A surprising number of Peter the Great's "raindrop" coins have also been found in Finland due to The Great Northern War (1700–1721). Around 11 min, a Swedish coin from 1747: https://youtu.be/tA4QlK7svMo
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  21. They accidentally drove the wrong way down a one-way street and collided with a wall of Panzerschrecks.
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  22. You’d think a chess player would also know math, maybe not.
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  23.  @halflifeapc8777  Explain post-war period? You got to be more specific. Once upon a time, the soil of Lepikon Torppa in a box was taken all the way to Moscow, because it was "the best the fatherland has to offer".
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  24.  @Makapaa  https://www.sotapolku.fi/henkilot/smirnoff_lyyli_1919-05-07_salmi/
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  25.  @johnburns4017  President of Finland Mauno Koivisto was also there. He had with him a Bible in which he wrote notes. An interesting moderate-left perspective, although he considered Stalin to be the Anti-Christ. His wife is still alive, from whose bookshelf it has been borrowed by bishop Huovinen. https://youtu.be/tLKx6vYHz3s
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  26.  @nottoday3817  It's a common misconception that Operation Barbarossa was launched from Vyborg. No, it started from the current border. Helsinki 1945 https://youtu.be/tT41pOtcmoY
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  27.  @johnburns4017  Apparently it's further south, in Primorsk. Maybe that's why Govorov criticized the commanders since they had already passed their target area.
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  28.  @rurikhistorik6338  According to Tehran documents (December 1943), there is some truth in it, but even those borders are not guaranteed by anyone other than the Finnish army.
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  29.  @johnburns4017  Russia's influence is greater in Eastern Finland. A significant number of Nordic people already lived in Novgorod. Some Swedes have also changed their names to Finnish after forgetting the culture of their homeland. Wignat culture is very Russian. For example, Pekka Siitoin was a descendant of an SS man and a Russian woman, which made him an amusing character. The same goes for Nikke Pärmi.
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  30.  @WandererRTF  I feel a bit like you would be a Peruvian explaining that Inca culture is not American. Not russian https://www.sotapolku.fi/henkilot/titov_feodor_1900-01-01_salmi/ Finland was not Axis because we have a different flag. https://bit.ly/2zT5Fn8 Not AK variant https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maneesi_univormunäyttely_26_kokelas_1960-luku.JPG That being said, cut cognac is no vodka.
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  31.  @WandererRTF  Geography is essential, because you dismiss the Gothic architecture of Western Russia, or millions of Finno-Ugric people living in Russia. Eastern Finland has been strongly influenced by Eastern European culture since 1323, hence cut cognac. https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life-science-news/finlands-recent-history-is-inscribed-in-the-genes
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  32.  @WandererRTF  The article says, that the people of Novgorod didn't marry outsiders until the 1970s. In other words, Eastern Finland is still more Russian than Russia.
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  33.  @WandererRTF  Apparently you are confusing Swedish-American culture with Finnish. Maybe nowadays not such a thick accent, but it's very Eastern. https://youtu.be/6CJ09qlsU6c
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  34.  @WandererRTF  Although self-irony, Boris Johnson is talking about himself. Self-deprecation and the Corpus Juris Civilis are of Greek origin. https://youtu.be/U0qchnptckA
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  35. Мы пришли из космоса 🇫🇮🤖
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  36.  @popsey72  My Novgorodian culture is not your goddam prom dress http://rauha.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/pahkina.png
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