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To: w1n1

I think it is because WW2 is over...

FTA: The Soviets were the only ones that realize just how skilled Finnish snipers were during the war, they were able to kill 40 Soviet troops for every Finnish soldier killed, that is unheard of today.


39 posted on 02/03/2017 4:07:41 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

They need to do a movie about that Finnish sniper. He was a little guy and I think he sniped on the order of five or six hundred people over a three-month period of time. It would be an incredible movie. I think his nickname was white death


43 posted on 02/03/2017 5:37:08 PM PST by BRL
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To: minnesota_bound

40:1 is all the more remarkable as the Finns had almost no artillery supporting their slaughter of the soviets. It really cost them later in the war when the soviets finally overwhelmed them with unlimited bodies to throw at their lines.


44 posted on 02/03/2017 5:48:05 PM PST by zek157
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