Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "WW2 Guns in Service Today" video.

@detroitandclevelandfan5503 Hmmm. Russians have an on-and-off relationship with the truth.
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@ДмитрийЩербаков-ш2я I fail to see any relevance in what you wrote. Are you trying a clumsy straw man attack?
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@detroitandclevelandfan5503 You were congratulating your Russian friend for a very obvious exaggeration. It may even be fabricated altogether.
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@ДмитрийЩербаков-ш2я Right. My late uncle was a high-ranking diplomat who negotiated all manner of agreements with the Soviets. He was staunchly religious and would never lie. His Russian counterparts thought him a devilish schemer, because they couldn't get their heads around the fact that someone would always speak the truth. Some time ago, I read the Winter War dairy of a Red Army commissar. It read like a fairy tale. There were outlandish claims about the so-called Mannerheim Line being as strong as the Maginot Line (and designed by the French, too), bunkers with springs that make Soviet grenades bounce off harmlessly, snipers in every treetop, thousands of US pilots facing them in the air, etcetera, etcetera. No doubt, the poor commissar believed all of that. For Russians, the adage that the first casualty of war is the truth holds special meaning.
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@Kinotaurus So, the case in world-famous in the whole of Russia. That doesn't help your credibility.
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@fus132 Obviously. Simo Häyhä was not and the Finns in general are not naturally prone to exaggeration.
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@2singingsquadronofficial567 I have been at the Mannerheim Line. And at the Maginot Line. Different as in day and night.
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@2singingsquadronofficial567 You don't say.
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A Mauser copy, in other words.
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@Gurfi28 We had the MG3 on our ex-Bundeswehr 2A4s, but now it's the MAG and 2A6s, the latter being ex-Royal Netherlands Army. Finnish Defence Forces, that is. It's true, officers miss out on all the fun -- I've yet to fire the MAG.
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