Every year, Russia celebrates “Victory Day” to commemorate the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany. But Russia seems to forget that it was itself an aggressor during the Second World War. Or ...
Simo Häyhä is still regarded internationally as the most legendary sniper of all time. During the Winter War on the Kollaa front, Simo Häyhä, a master marksman from the Karelian Civil Guard, became a ...
The Soviet soldiers never saw him. Their artillery failed to kill him. Entire units refused to advance because of his skills. Simo Häyhä killed more enemy combatants than any sniper in recorded ...
Simo "Simuna" Häyhä was a Finnish sniper who earned the ominous nickname, "The White Death". He's credited as one of the most ...
On hyytävän kylmä talvi vuonna 1939. Metsässä, Suomen ja silloisen Neuvostoliiton rajalla, piileskelee lyhyt karjalalainen maanviljelijä. Valkoiseen lumipukuun pukeutuneena hän on lähes näkymätön ...