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** He did this all using naught but ''iron sights''.
** One lucky Russian somehow manage to shoot Häyhä in the jaw. He survived the head wound, but woke up from his coma a week later just to find that the war ended, and finally died in 2002.
*** Simo got a bullet, possibly explosive, to his jaw, but it didn't take him out. He FIRST recovered his rifle and shot the guy, who done it. Then passed out - That's badass for you. The fact that he was just an extraordinary ordinary man makes it more so; [[Badass Normal]]? He was just a simple Finnish farmer and hunter defending his country, for one thing he didn't enjoy killings, though didn't feel bad either. The Commies had invaded his country and Simo hadn't invited them.
** Another AFAICR Finn from the Winter War was also the second-highest scoring sniper of all time. Just with 20 or so kills shy than Simo.
** Of course, the nicknames, "The White Death" sounds slightly less badass when Russians call sugar that as well.
*** The Russians were probably more terrified of Simo hiding in their sugar, ''[[Memetic Badass|waiting]]''.
* Both the Finns and the Western allies that had made deals with their respective Devils. But the Finns just had to be closer to their unpleasant co-belligerents that the Western Allies. Some of the Finish soldiers were Jews, leading to some odd results.
** Finnish battalion Solomon Klass, a commander, rescued a German unit that was surrounded and was offered an Iron Cross. Klass refused promptly.
** Some Finnish Jewish soldiers set up a field Synagogue, which is a few feet from the German camp and made sure the Germans can hear them.
** The Finnish prime minister, when Himmler asked how Germany might help Finland's "Jewish Problem," is reputed to replied "Finland has no Jewish problem."
* Alexander Matrosov, the Hero of the Soviet Union, got that distinction posthumously after using his own body to block a German machine gun during an offensive.
* Admiral Cunningham
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