[moosiah]

Hi In my 'travels' about the net I found a website for a finnish movie about the war between finnland and the soviets on one side and the nazis on the other. in ww2 the finns fought the soviets w 11 divisions to a stand still w just a handfull of men...........the finnish airforce used german and british planes bought before the war..... some finnish pilots even flew against american pilots too, in a strange twist. did you know that there was a American vollenteer group that flew w the soviet air force???? the triple "7"s any who,,, look at the trailer it's v cool!!!! lots of suomis in it .....

http://www.tali-ihantala.fi/

 

[Shattered]

That movie is available at the Creek as well as hundreds of others.

 

[Mongo]

That movie is available at the Creek as well as hundreds of others.

It is not the "Winter War" but a different one. Is it available on DVD with subtitles? Who has it at KCR?

 

[mt-ac]

Finns surrounded by Ruskies!

Private to Sgt: What are we going to do? There are fifty of them and they have us surrounded.

Sgt to Private: Start shooting now! It will take us all day and most of the night to bury all of em'.

 

[moosiah]

sonoma, also known as the valley of the moon, strangely enough is the location of the largest population of retired Finns in the us........ big place here called FAHA, that means something in Finnish, also means Finnish American Home Asso any body ever see any movies about the swiss in ww2?? hundreds of swiss came thru here too.
my cousin that lives in Finland once told me "never piss off a finn" I guess the russkis learned that the hard way
(what dodo head!!!! I just figured out the spell chek )

 

[Bill S]

....any body ever see any movies about the swiss in ww2?? hundreds of swiss came thru here too.

Switzerland was neutral in WWII. They were not invaded nor did they fight. Did you mean "Swedes" instead of "Swiss"?

 

[Marines42]

The Winter War is excellent too. The Finns are nobodys *****!

 

[panzerfaust]

Yep, a good film.

'Winter War" well worth watching. We have lots of Finns here, NOT to be trifled with. "Sisu!"

 

[swilson]

Switzerland was neutral in WWII. They were not invaded nor did they fight. Did you mean "Swedes" instead of "Swiss"?

Isn't there an infamous quote concerning Switzerland being invaded by the Germans..... Something to the effect of a German General or Ambassador speaking to a Swiss General or Ambassador and stating " Our army outnumbers you two to one. What can you do to stop us." The Swiss reply, " We will all shoot twice and go home".

I have heard the story several different ways from WWI to WWII. Google lists tons of variations and time frames. I wonder if there is a grain of truth in there.

 

[Shattered]

It is not the "Winter War" but a different one. Is it available on DVD with subtitles? Who has it at KCR?

Same guys that were selling "Winter War". There's a hell of a lot of them there. Hard to know what's good and what's crap though, unless the guy plays it.

 

[Shattered]

The Winter War is excellent too. The Finns are nobodys *****!

Yeah hey... but I'm not getting into that steam up deal and roll around in the snow thingie... they do strange things when there's no wimmen around...

 

[Bill S]

Isn't there an infamous quote concerning Switzerland being invaded by the Germans..... Something to the effect of a German General or Ambassador speaking to a Swiss General or Ambassador and stating " Our army outnumbers you two to one. What can you do to stop us." The Swiss reply, " We will all shoot twice and go home".

I have heard the story several different ways from WWI to WWII. Google lists tons of variations and time frames. I wonder if there is a grain of truth in there.

I'm not familiar with the quotation, but keep in mind that the Swiss REQUIRE every home to be armed. Just because they have remained neutral doesn't mean they are pacifists.

There may have been threats of invasion, but those threats never turned into real action. It was actually worth it to the Germans to leave Switzerland as a neutral "safe" haven for their stolen wealth. If they had invaded and captured Switzerland, then the Allies would have counter-invaded and seized all holdings. By leaving it neutral, the Allies couldn't touch the Nazi's secret bank accounts and treasure troves. And once the expansion of the Nazi empire faltered, there were plenty of nazi higher-ups who saw the writing on the wall and stashed money in Switzerland in case they needed to disappear.

 

[Marines42]

Switzerland is what we call "fiercely neutral" to mean that they maintain a large and formidable army to dissuade anyone from trying to invade them. Every able bodied person maintains their militia weapon in their home with a secured box of ammo that is not to be opened until ordered to. They have an annual training event where they all come out to qualify. Pretty darn good thinking in my book.

 

[Shattered]

Pretty darn good thinking in my book.

They originally copied "our" idea. Somewhere along the line we went terribly wrong.

 

[moosiah]

swiss nutrality

during ww2 the swiss Luftwaffe shot down about 100+ german Luftwaffe planes trying to cut across switzerland... they lost about 10-14 planes them selves, so they stopped all air combat operations by the swiss airforce. by the way ,,the swiss flew Me 109's wouldn't that make an interesting movie????

 

[moosiah]

It is not the "Winter War" but a different one. Is it available on DVD with subtitles? Who has it at KCR?

I was told that it would be available on DVD later this spring........

 

[panzerfaust]

Swiss neutrality....

The Swiss are a "neutral" country, yet have historically provided the world with some great mercenaries. Remember: Papal guard, etc. Although they are prohibited from exporting arms, they simply team up with another "host" country for the R & D and design/fabrication work, like Sig/Sauer. (Swiss/German) Fantastic designers and engineers, look at their time pieces.

 

[moosiah]

Switzerland is what we call "fiercely neutral" to mean that they maintain a large and formidable army to dissuade anyone from trying to invade them. Every able bodied person maintains their militia weapon in their home with a secured box of ammo that is not to be opened until ordered to. They have an annual training event where they all come out to qualify. Pretty darn good thinking in my book.

actually, every swiss home has a small closet on the side that the front door opens to. In the closet is your battle pack. rifle, min 200 rds ammo for your rifle, grenades, pistol lif you have one and ammo for your pistol. they don't check to see if your ammo is open, they check to make sure that it's in date! which means that you better be using it at the range, the only things that are really leagle to do on a sunday in switzerland are go to church and shoot your gun at the town range (300meters!!)