On March 6, 1940, sniper Haye shot the 505th Soviet soldier at a distance of 300 meters. When the target is headshot, the blood mist flies all over the sky, which is very beautiful. At this time, someone shouted in Russian: "Get down!" It's the White Grim Reaper! ”
During World War II, a war broke out between the Soviet Union and Finland, and the Soviet Union demanded that Finland cede territory on the grounds of its own security, just as Poland was defeated.
Even though the Soviet Union at that time was an out-and-out military power, Finland naturally did not agree to such unreasonable demands.
So on November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union gathered 450,000 soldiers and launched a war against Finland.
In the face of the menacing Soviet army, Finland at that time did not flinch, although they had a huge gap with the Soviet Union in terms of the number of soldiers, weapons and equipment, and logistical support.
Finland knew that they could not compete with the Soviet Union head-on, so they used the "Mannerheim Line" military engineering to use the complex terrain to resist the Soviet attack, and the Soviet army suffered heavy losses.
This is a well-known battle between the weak and the strong, and in this war, a large number of excellent snipers emerged in Finland.
Simo Hayha was undoubtedly the most famous of the snipers, and his most exaggerated achievement was to snipe 505 Soviet troops (542 according to popular rumors) in less than four months.
This result is obviously an exaggeration, and the most mysterious thing is that the weapon used by Heyer is the Mosin Nagant sniper rifle, which has been inherited from the Imperial Russian period, and it is even rumored that the sharpshooter does not like to use scopes.
During sniper missions, Heyer will put on a white camouflage suit and hide in the jungle until he sees the Soviet army in his sight.
At that time, the uniforms of the Soviet army were reddish-brown, which made them extremely dazzling in a field of white, which was a live target, which provided convenience for Heyer's sniping.
Because he and his sniper team are so accurate in marksmanship, they are often able to take out the enemy unconsciously, so much so that they have the nickname "White Death".
For these "white deaths", the Soviet army is very afraid, after all, killing people invisibly, even if they lie on the ground, they may not be able to escape.
There are even some Soviet soldiers who directly collapse in their hearts when they see their comrades-in-arms being bullets that come from nowhere, and choose to sit indifferently and wait for their own one.
Heyer not only used a sniper rifle, according to statistics, he also killed nearly 200 Soviet soldiers with a submachine gun, which was a "death" for the Soviet army.
However, Heyer did not always become a sniper, and on March 6, 1940, Heyer was spotted by another sniper while on a mission, and a bullet hit him in the back half of the face.
Although the surgery saved Heyer's life and repaired half of his face, he was no longer able to take on sniper missions and had to retire with regret.
The Soviet-Finnish war suffered far more losses than expected, and Finland gradually ran out of ammunition and food, so the two sides chose to negotiate peace in 1940.
Although Finland ceded 1/10 of its territory, Finland preserved its independence with the blood of its warriors compared to the fate of other countries being annexed.
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The Soviet Union lost more than one million people in the bloody battle of Finland in the bitter winter (Photos) Legal Evening News 2008-03-13 19:55
