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badoingle [S] 4 points ago +4 / -0

For those unfamiliar, this is Simo Häyhä, better known to Russian soldiers as the 'White Death'. During the Russian invasion of Finland in 1939, he killed around seven hundred Soviet troops in under one hundred days, using an iron-sighted mosin-nagant and a submachinegun. The Soviet military launched artillery strikes against him, dropped bombs on his suspected positions, and sent teams of counter-snipers after him. He was finally shot in the face with an explosive bullet and survived, recovering after the war. He lived to be 96.

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Littleirishmaid 2 points ago +2 / -0

Wow.

Thanks for the back story.

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KilroyJCNJ 1 point ago +1 / -0

I believe he passed last year. Awesome historical figure. Would not want him pissed at me. . .

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badoingle [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

He died in 2002.

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KilroyJCNJ 1 point ago +1 / -0

Then there was another who passed las year. . . The memory banks are not what they used to be. . .but check last year.

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Racerx719 1 point ago +1 / -0

Wow this is the definition of Alpha

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