Even I’ve heard of him and I’m not Finnish or even European. I think he would have been the only Finn I could have named other than Linus Torvalds up until a couple of years ago, when I read “A Frozen Hell,” a book about the Winter War.
The greatest Finn.
There were enough Blofeld vibes for me to imagine a cat on his lap until taking a closer look.
In 2018 I was privileged to have received a private tour of his Helsinki home. I’ll always admire him for what he and Finland did to Stalin in 1939. Sisu!
Lahtaaja
He is responsible for the biggest mass murder of Finns. What a nice guy.
Was für he Swedish origin?
One of the two people most responsible of Finland staying independent during ww2.
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Absolute Top G
One of the most unknown (in the rest of the world) but a really interesting character that Shaped Finland into what it is today.
He apparently never quite mastered the finnish language. And despised hitler so much he always smoked when they were in the same room.(Which Hitler hated) Even if Germany was one of their best allies again the red aggression.
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Arguably the most important person in our history
Indeed, quite serious
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gigachad energy.
Even I’ve heard of him and I’m not Finnish or even European. I think he would have been the only Finn I could have named other than Linus Torvalds up until a couple of years ago, when I read “A Frozen Hell,” a book about the Winter War.
The greatest Finn.
There were enough Blofeld vibes for me to imagine a cat on his lap until taking a closer look.
In 2018 I was privileged to have received a private tour of his Helsinki home. I’ll always admire him for what he and Finland did to Stalin in 1939. Sisu!
Lahtaaja
He is responsible for the biggest mass murder of Finns. What a nice guy.
Was für he Swedish origin?
One of the two people most responsible of Finland staying independent during ww2.
BASED Commander
Absolute Top G
One of the most unknown (in the rest of the world) but a really interesting character that Shaped Finland into what it is today.
He apparently never quite mastered the finnish language. And despised hitler so much he always smoked when they were in the same room.(Which Hitler hated) Even if Germany was one of their best allies again the red aggression.
Oh yes, year after slaughtering other Finns.
Good times.
[Here’s](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Hitler_Mannerheim_Ryti.jpg) Adolf visiting his buddy for his birthday 🥳
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