Author: WW2 on TV

When the Soviet Union marched into Finland in 1939, the biting arctic cold was only one of the challenges the Red Army would face. Within the icy woods of the Land of a Thousand Lakes, Soviet soldiers encountered an invisible foe that would haunt their nightmares: a Finnish sniper they named the “White Death.” Simo Häyhä, once a farmer renowned in his hometown for his uncanny hunting and marksmanship skills, was drafted to repel the Soviet invaders. In the face of foreign aggression, he would become an unstoppable force of vengeance, eliminating as many as 25 Soviets in just one…