There’s something about a sniper that fascinates people. There’s a reason they’ve been highlighted in more than their fair ...

When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in the winter of 1939, one Finnish sniper truly distinguished himself. His name was Simo Häyhä. The Red Army referred to him as the White Death, and for good ...

VLADIMIR Putin makes no secret of his desire to return his country to the glory days of the Soviet Union standing as a superpower. But over a decade before his birth, his beloved Red Army was ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. Simo Häyhä was born on December 17th 1917 in the farming town of Rautajärvi, Finland near the Soviet border. In ...

Nicknamed The White Death, Häyhä was a prime target for the Soviets, who struck him with mortars and heavy artillery to halt his killing spree. Photo / Finnish Military Archives Standing at just over ...

White Death. The very mention of those two words was enough to strike fear into the hearts of Red Army soldiers who crossed the Soviet Union’s border with Finland during the Winter War of 1939, a ...

Mr Häyhä was but a simple man. Growing up in Finland, he did his one year of mandatory military service, and then went back to working as a farmer and hunter in the snow-strewn wilderness. It's what ...