The last time the Russian Bear went after Finland was in the Winter War.Quote:
Originally Posted by Birdbuff
On 30 November 1939, Soviet forces invaded Finland with 21 divisions, totalling 450,000 men, and bombed Helsinki,[96][102] killing about a hundred citizens and destroying more than fifty buildings.
Immediately after the war, Helsinki officially announced 19,576 dead.[204] According to revised estimates in 2005 by Finnish historians, 25,904 people died or went missing and 43,557 were wounded on the Finnish side during the war.
The official Soviet figure (with reference to the command of the Leningrad Military District) was published at a session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on march 26, 1940: 48,475 dead and 158,863 sick and wounded.[22] More recent Russian estimates vary: in 1990, Mikhail Semiryaga claimed 53,522 dead and N. I. Baryshnikov, 53,500 dead. In 1997, Grigoriy Krivosheyev claimed 126,875 dead and missing, and total casualties of 391,783 with 188,671 wounded.[19] In 1991, Yuri Kilin claimed 63,990 dead and total casualties of 271,528. In 2007, he revised the estimate of dead to 134,000[20] and in 2012, he updated the estimate to 138,533.[214] In 2013, Pavel Petrov stated that the Russian State Military Archive has a database confirming 167,976 killed or missing along with the soldiers' names, dates of birth, and ranks.
Basically the Finn's kicked the crap out of the Russians
Between 1,200 and 3,543 Soviet tanks were destroyed. The official figure was 611 tank casualties, but Yuri Kilin found a note received by the head of the Soviet General Staff, Boris Shaposhnikov, which reports 3,543 tank casualties and 316 tanks destroyed. According to the Finnish historian Ohto Manninen, the 7th Soviet Army lost 1,244 tanks during the breakthrough battles of the Mannerheim Line in mid-winter. In the immediate aftermath of the war, the Finnish estimate of the number of lost Soviet tanks was 1,000–1,200.[25][26][27] The Soviet Air Forces lost around 1,000 aircraft, but less than half of them were combat casualties.[27][28] According Carl Fredrik Geust, based on studies of Soviet air force units, Finnish anti-aircraft units have shot down 119 and Finnish fighter pilots 131 Soviet aircraft, though all Soviet aircraft losses have been more than 900.
Simo Häyhä the Finnish sniper managed to knock of 500 Russians just by himself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4
Don't mess with those Vikings Mr. Putin.
