I guess you can call defending your country butchering. Many invaders died by the knife. Venturing into the forest was dangerous.
Sako and Valmet supplied some of their service weapons. They still do.
If you captured a Russian soldier you got to keep the red star on his uniform. The first ones were metal, later they were made of cloth.
There are many lakes along the southern border so few routes into Finland.
The Russians broke through the middle border area using overwhelming force in 44-45. The Finns joke the people in this area are lazy and they lost because they took their time getting to the front. (lots of regional humor in small countries)
I forgot, every Finnish soldier had his knife and used it. Don’t they call it “ukko pekka” or something?
When the Finns counterattacked, “Their machineguns barked, their knives were loose in their sheaths, and they did not take many prisoners.” - Time magazine, 1940
Finnish humor: “So many Russians! Where will we bury them all?”
I also forgot that in Finland the saunas are co-ed. May have to go there after all.