Ha! He might have sniped 500+, but he killed THOUSANDS!.
One AAR states that he and his small team killed 1,500 Soviets in one engagment.
Simo was sniping Soviets on a road from across a frozen lake. After killing 50 or so Soviets in a few hours, the Soviet officers mounted a regiment-sized attack to run across the lake and kill the snipers. The Soviets lined up and charged across a 1/2 mile area still taking increased sniper fire. What the Soviets didn't know is that the Finns actually anticipated this and had placed explosives all over the frozen lake. When the Soviets got to the middle of the lake, less than 100m from Simo's position, they blew the charges and well over a thousand Soviets either drowned or froze to death.
That was one (1) engagement.
Next: the Finns attacked the hot kitchens and TENS OF THOUSANDS of Soviets starved or froze to death.
Anyways, ole Simo is my favorite Commie killer next to Henry Bowman ;)
Unintended Consequences (I hadn't thought of Henry in years)
I liked Tony Montana myself, "I kill a communist for fun, but for a green card, I gonna carve him up real nice."
A very very brutal war that almost no one knows about. The Finns were incredible and the poor Russian kids were allowed to be sheep to the slaughter. The Finns would blow up trees and box em in and just mow them down. Sad.
Hopefully the Europeans will do something about that Islamo cancer before it is too late.
An idea taken directly from the Battle of Austerlitz. Only that time the French did it to the Russians.
The success of the Finns was also due to Stalin’s secret purges of the officer core of the Soviet army in the late 1930s, which executed 90% of all Red Army generals, 80% of Red Army colonels, and 30,000 officers of lesser rank. The Soviet army sent into Finland was led by communist party hacks - sort of the goal Obama has for the US military.
Interestingly, the success of the Finns against the Soviets caused Hitler to presume he would have similar success against the Soviets, and failed to note the improvements in the Soviet military following the disasters in Finland.