Marshall Mannerheim, 1919

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  1. 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.

  2. There were enough Blofeld vibes for me to imagine a cat on his lap until taking a closer look.

  3. 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!

  4. 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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