The White Death — The True Story of Simo Häyhä

In the winter of 1939, on the Kollaa front in eastern Finland, the Red Army sent counter-sniper teams, artillery batteries, and entire infantry platoons to kill one man. They could not find him. He lay in snow trenches at minus forty degrees, using iron sights because a telescopic scope would glint in the light. In one hundred days he killed over five hundred Soviet soldiers. They called him the White Death. His name was Simo Häyhä. He was a farmer from a village no one had heard of. This is his story.

True stories of the men and women whose courage History almost forgot.

— Chapters —
00:00 Cold open — the Soviet counter-sniper
01:15 Rautjärvi — a farmer and his rifle
02:30 The Civil Guard, the shooting competitions
03:45 November 1939 — the Winter War begins
05:00 The Kollaa front — 'Kollaa holds'
06:15 Iron sights, snow mounds, packed snow in the mouth
07:30 The kill count — five hundred and five
08:45 The Soviet response — artillery, counter-snipers
10:00 March 6, 1940 — the explosive bullet
11:00 Waking from the coma the day peace was declared
12:00 After the war — farming, dog breeding, quiet
12:45 Reflection — 'I did what I was told to do'

— Sources —
• Tapio Saarelainen, The White Sniper: Simo Häyhä (Casemate, 2016)
• William Trotter, A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War (Algonquin, 1991)
• Finnish Defence Forces archives — unit records, 34th Infantry Regiment
• Robert Edwards, White Death: Russia's War on Finland (Weidenfeld, 2006)

— About this channel —
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