Comments by "Jussi M. Konttinen" (@jussim.konttinen4981) on "Little-Known Facts About The Finnish Soldiers of World War II" video.

  1. For those of you who wanted to hear stories about the continuation war. Lauri Pekuri flew Brewster F2A Buffalo. Pekuri was shot down over a pond where he sank, but managed to swim up and escape to Finland. He was sent to Vienna to get new batch of Messerschmitt Bf 109. There he was given the Iron Cross at a cocktail party. Pekuri was eventually shot down again and captured. He was sent to prison in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), where he was tortured. In the meantime, Finland had made peace with the USSR, so they sent the communists back to Russia. And vice versa Pekuri was also released and he returned to Finland in december 1944. Years later, Pekuri commanded a wing when Finland was ordered to acquire aircrafts from the USSR. Pekuri was sent to Kazakhstan for training without knowing what type it would be. It turned out to be the MiG-21. Eventually he retired and traveled to Spain. Pekuri's FAF BW-372 is preserved at the Aviation Museum of Central Finland.
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  2. Myth. Unlike the US and France, Germany declared war on Finland after the Operation Tanne Ost failed.
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  3. That's already more than many people know. I live in Finland and I don't remember ever eating an avocado or a corn dog. I only discovered macaroni and cheese a couple of years ago. We have more salmon, dark bread, and we eat sausage without bread.
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  4. @Snowstorm I'm not joking. Now that I checked, avocado is €3.72 a kilo imported from Peru. Ridiculously, tabasco is also imported from America, even though chili grows in Bulgaria. However, potatoes have been cultivated in Europe since Columbus.
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  5. lol He butchered Häyhä. Although google translate can't form sentences correctly, it can pronounce Finnish very well
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  6.  @mikaveekoo  Is Denmark vastly different from Finland? Voluntary divide and conquer is not very smart. Canada has more inhabitants than the Nordic countries combined. We should be one country. 🇧🇻🇩🇰🇫🇮
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  7. Scandinavians live in Nyland (Uusimaa), which is not Scandinavia. Just like New York was dutch. Finnish reindeer herders live in Lapland, which is part of Scandinavia, so people are understandably confused. I live in eastern Finland, which has always been a Finnish-Russian mix
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  8. Mannerheim's protégé Adolf Ehrnrooth was married to a Danish woman. He made pro NATO statements. They were a lot more cosmopolitan than you think. Board members Jouko Itälä (Orkla ASA) and Karl-Erik Ladau were actual Nazis. Just like Mr. Brooks (2007) by Kevin Costner.
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  9. Finland is quite immobile, as is Russia. https://youtu.be/HwWSwJ-2Ub8
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  10. You are dumb. Baltics were occupied in the SUMMER of 1940.
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  11. When the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (backed by Turkey and Germany) was signed on 3 March 1918, Petsamo was not part of Finland. Regarding Finland it's still pretty accurate. Also, the treaty of Tartu was registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series on 5 March 1921, which was a bit like the UN of that era.
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  12. I doubt that he was in Berlin. Most of them are well researched. Lauri Törni was one of the last to arrive in January.
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  13.  @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681  Pledge or pawn is better metaphor, as Dr. Mauno Jokipii stated. Finland received help from the Luftwaffe in return.
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  14. What's even worse. The communists were ousted in 1948. After that, the Nazis ran amok until 1982. However, one evil does not exclude the other. The Soviet Union was the aggressor.
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  15. The last Governor-General of Finland was a nice man. He was sentenced to death and shot on May 7, 1940. We are a bit like natives in Quebec or Alaska.
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