The world's top ten sniper list, the former Soviet Union, the United States, Germany have players on the list, but one of them is a Finn, unremarkable, but with impressive results to the top of the world sniper list, his life is full of legend, the status has not been surpassed.
Simon Haye, a Finn, was born in 1905 in a small town in Finland. He joined the army in 1925 and began his sniper career, but it was the Winter War in Sofinnish that made him famous.
In 1938, after Germany invaded Austria, the Soviet Union followed suit, hoping to lease land in neighboring Finland for military operations, saying that it was to strengthen the security of Leningrad, but Finland resolutely refused.
In 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany signed the "Non-Aggression Pact", the Eastern European countries were privately divided, and soon after, Hitler sent troops to attack Poland with lightning speed, Poland was occupied by the German army, and the Soviet Union once again hit the idea on Finland' head, repeatedly asking the Finnish government to come to the Soviet Union for negotiations and consultations, hoping to change places, but all ended in failure. The Soviet army then maliciously created a conflict, and on November 30 of that year, it sent troops to attack Finland.
Because the war broke out in the winter, the war was called the Soviet-Finnish War, also known as the Winter War. The Soviet Union sent 1.2 million troops, and Finland at that time had a population of only 4 million, and only 200,000 people were sent to the war. Finland's borders run north-south, the climate is cold, according to records, this winter is one of the three coldest winters in Finnish history, and the country is mostly mountainous, which is a unique blessing for Finnish soldiers who are familiar with the country's terrain.
There have been a number of excellent snipers in this war, and Simon is the most prominent one. Simon Haye is not the tall and mighty hero we remember, he is about one meter six or so tall, this height is very advantageous for snipers, easy to hide camouflage, and Finland has snow cover all year round, people basically ski, Simon is no exception, and the technology is not bad. War in the cold winter months, for the Finnish soldiers who are familiar with the terrain and know how to ski, it is a tiger.
During his four months of fighting soviet forces, he achieved impressive results. Killing 524 Soviet soldiers, and according to incomplete statistics, more than 200 people were killed with machine guns, and simon's sniper rifle did not have a laser sight at that time, but he could accurately kill the enemy at 700 meters away, so people gave him the nickname "White Death".
Faced with such an untimely bomb, the Soviets counterattacked through various means, but none of them were effective. Until March 1940, during a mission, Simon was hit in the jaw by a Soviet sniper, and the bullet pierced his left brain, and everyone thought that he could not survive, and the tenacious Simon survived.
Shortly after recovering from his injuries, Simon was promoted to lieutenant and then retired, and it wasn't until 2002 that the war hero completed his legendary life.