One Man vs The Soviet Army: The Untold Story | Leechy |

[00:00:00]Did you know the Soviet Union deployed an entire army to kill one man and still failed? His name was Simo Häyhä, a Finnish farmer, quiet, unremarkable until the winter of 1939 [music] when the Soviet Union invaded Finland and Simo walked into the snow with a rifle.

[00:00:17]>> [music] >> The temperature dropped to 40° below zero. He wore white to disappear against the snow. He used iron sights instead of a scope so enemy snipers [music] couldn't catch the glint of glass. He was nearly impossible to find. In under 100 days, he recorded over 500 confirmed [music] kills. The Soviets sent counter snipers, nothing. They called in artillery [music] strikes on his position, nothing. They sent entire search teams into the forest, they didn't come [music] back. One man, one rifle, one winter. They eventually hit him with an explosive round to the face.

[00:00:49]His jaw [music] was gone. His men carried him out certain he was dead. He woke up on the exact day the war [music] ended. He lived to 96. The record still stands.