Quote Originally Posted by Celtic_Punk View Post
you guys gave birth to the greatest sniper of all time. And only because he was a legendary hunter. Skills of a battlefield sniper are one with a hunter, this much is true. 800 kills in 100 days. Amazing.
Speaking of snipers, a distant relative by marriage was one during the war. Unlike grandpa, who "wrote out" his war traumas like many vets did, he AFAIK *never* refers to those times...
Go fig.
The winter war was a huge display of how a motivated individual can stand up to the many, in the face of all odds stacked against you. It also proves that moral is everything. Had your people been defeated in spirit you'd have been rolled over by the soviets.
More like rank idiocy and institutionalised incompetence do wonders to negate advantages in resources and technology.