Comments by "Jussi M. Konttinen" (@jussim.konttinen4981) on "Military History not Visualized" channel.

@dwarow2508 I'm not familiar with the primary sources. I guess the documents has been classified, but is available in the National Library of Finland for researchers etc. Hämäläinen, Matti: Pommituslentolaivue 44. Koala-kustannus Oy, 2010. 407 sivua. ISBN 978-952-229-104-2.
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We still have those camps, so be careful
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@luckabuse I volunteered for extra time in the Finnish army. Unlike in Russia, we have real voting rights.
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@luckabuse I know. We had a red prisoner at home, just like uncle stephen. They were called "house russians". You should know what the Bible says. Anyone unwilling to work should not eat.
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Total population less than in Belgium. Tell me a country that didn't let Germany walk in.
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Oic. Melting furnace of cultures. That's why English is hard to pronounce. Btw. ankkuri in Finnish. Wonderful how our entire language is made up of butchered loanwords, yet is incomprehensible for foreigners.
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@Josef D It would be interesting to compare birth rates. As a general rule, the birth rate was higher throughout Europe, and today only in developing countries.
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@Mitaka.Kotsuka Peace is terrible for Americans, after watching several jocko podcasts. If you’re a mercenary, it’s a job.
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Obviously, they complied a secret protocol. These were indeed three different wars. To my understanding, the Lapland War slowed down in January 1945 since they kept a small plot near Kilpisjärvi until April. In terms of climate, it must have been like Stalingrad to the power of ten. https://lapinsota-1944.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/7/7/12779786/suomi_1944_80966342j-02.jpg
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@nattygsbord However, only about 200K were barred from voting in 1945. Rest of them did vote for ÖVP or SPÖ.
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@edi9892 I’m pretty sure you’re breaking the rules if you use non-religious or non-italian expressions. Learn the lingo.
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@edi9892 I'm dead serious. By Italian, I mean Italian American and Catholic jargon. Very rarely are my writings deleted.
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@andersandersson5815 I think Churchill was right trying to push Sweden into war. They could have prevented the Ardennes offensive. If you look at the map just before the Battle of Bulge, Lyngen-line in Norway was very narrow. I recommend: Untold Arctic Wars (2022). Nazis took about 208,000 soldiers and 11,000 prisoners of war from Finland to Norway. Only 75,000 soldiers chased them because the Finns had been demobilized by Stalin. However, I noticed one mistake. They say German clothing in Lapland was improvised, therefore poor. On the contrary, Lapland shoes are expensive. Swedish and Finnish fur hats are good.
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Fk Ff At least the Vikings had no free time for political debates. A wounded reads the Seura magazine (@14min30s), which mostly covers articles on gossip, health issues, food, travelling. https://youtu.be/kxqzvMngoek
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About 3,000 Soviets served in the Finnish army, so not all of them were communists. Unfortunately, they were deported and sentenced to gulag for 5 to 15 years. Some of them survived and received pension from Finland.
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Six EU member states and are not NATO-members: Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Ireland, Malta, Sweden and Switzerland (Schengen only). Technically speaking, these countries could invade Germany.
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@pallen2980 Compare Franz Böhme and Friedrich Paulus. Are you claiming that Paulus was clean?
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@lati long Although not an alliance, the USA and France didn't declare war on Finland, thus the 20th Mountain Army was neutral 1941-44. To my recollection, Franz Böhme was the only one who would have been sentenced to death out of 200,000, had not he jumped out the window. They used human shields quite systematically, so I think it was just a tactic of the time. You might want to watch the movie Lone Survivor.
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Rolf Labbart cunningly hid as a movie star
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@nattygsbord Hitler's underbelly turned out to be the most bitter, costly fighting of the war, much of it in treacherous mountain terrain.
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Typically, bold missions result in more losses. Those who served in Afghanistan were in greater danger than a Finn at the Russian border. In 2014, their attack focused on Crimea, instead of Finland. German death toll in Afghanistan was 62, and about 457 British and 2401 American soldiers were KIA.
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@stevewindisch7400 I would agree if there was an objective way of removing symbols. I bet 100€ you don't even know what insignia they used. For example, 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Maria Theresia.
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@stevewindisch7400 Yeah, it's a cornflower. Strange for you to suggest museums should conceal a symbol that is shown in countless of Hollywood movies, (e.g. Private Ryan). That said, different thing is to show bad taste in a public place.
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@romaliop "In such an atmosphere, only one tactic is valid, Danton’s tactic: courage, courage and once again courage! And if you need our help, we will give it to you, brotherly, reaching out to you. You can be sure of that." -Stalin, while visiting Finland in 1917
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@romaliop Yes, but maybe your iq is too low for reading
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@romaliop You’re just jealous because you can’t afford mercenaries. If I could afford I would hire 100,000 Germans, instead of just 10,000
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@romaliop Yugoslavia's neighbors were satellites. Russia's border neighbors were never independent and communist states
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What I've researched about The 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking". They did have ethnic battalions, but concurrently they were heavily mixed.
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@JohanKlein Yeah, I would advise not to surrender. Only about 2,800 Finnish prisoners survived WW2.
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@JohanKlein Conditions vary enormously, as the first prisoners were released as early as April 1940. The last person was repatriated in 1959.
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@JohanKlein There were not many civilian casualties in Lapland either. Unlike Stalin, Gustaf Mannerheim evacuated civilians to Sweden. Lots of anti-Germans in Lapland because their houses burned down. They didn't die though.
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@JohanKlein Corporal Lahtinen was a hostage, that's why he was not repatriated until 1959. The USSR kidnapped about 200 women and border guards in the spring of 1940. I think Lahtinen was released after Stalin died, because he had a German wife and four children in Kazakhstan, one of whom was born at the embassy in Moscow. This has been reported by the Finnish people's news, which is a communist magazine.
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If Finland had been an ally, the army would have withdrawn to Norway.
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@bozo5632 I went to a hotel in the Philippines and a random couple there spoke my language, which is Finnish. Stalin wasn't God. There would be German speakers in every situations.
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