[karhu308]

A large group of Russian soldiers in the border area in 1939 are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a small hill: "One Finnish soldier is better than ten Russian". The Russian commander quickly orders 10 of his best men over the hill where a gun-battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes, then silence. The voice once again calls out: "One Finn is better than one hundred Russians."
Furious, the Russian commander sends his next best 100 troops over the hill and instantly a huge gun fight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again silence.
The calm Finnish voice calls out again: "One Finn is better than one thousand Russians!"
The enraged Russian commander musters 1000 fighters and sends them to the other side of the hill. Rifle fire, machine guns, grenades, rockets and cannon fire ring out as a terrible battle is fought.... Then silence.
Eventually one badly wounded Russian fighter crawls back over the hill and with his dying words tells his commander,
"Don't send any more men......it's a trap. There are two of them."

 

[ebodell]

Good one. If you do not mind I would like to share it with some friends I made when I worked with Nokia in a former life.

 

[karhu308]

Feel free to share it. I take no credit for this "story". I was sent this "story" in a forwarded email.

Good one. If you do not mind I would like to share it with some friends I made when I worked with Nokia in a former life.

 

[CDFingers]

Got a good laugh out of me! Thanks.

CDFingers

 

[AbueloMark]

Heard this joke 50 years ago. Instead of one Finn, it was one Texican. Instead of Russians, it was Mexicans from Santa Anna's invading army.

 

[suckstwobme]

LOL, that was a good one.

 

[Pahtu]

It was a good chuckle!

Pahtu.

 

[doncb]

:laugh: Love it!

 

[MJ]

ROTFLMAO I'm sending that one around

Finn machinegun company

 

[oparomines]

That is funny, my wife even laughed.

 

[Vic]

That's a funny joke and can be used in many circumstances including Russian. It does make mme think of a chapter in a book I read call "knights cross" true stories of the heroes that won them. One chapter dealt with a German pioneer platoon on the eastern front that held 1500 meters of trench line. There were 10 to start and by the end of the battle 4 remained including the commanding soldier twice field promoted and wounded twice. At night they crawl out and lay mines, trip wires and so forth and fortify the positions they help often 100's of meters apart with crates of grenades, ammo and the fuse boxes for the traps. After almost a week of harsh fighting they actually went out at night and snatched an observer who relayed that the attack was being moved to a different sector because the Red Army command felt that sustained attacks in this sector facing a battalion sized enemy was to costly. Amazing bravery in the face of overwhelming odds.
Be it Finn's Japanese, German, Russian, English or American and all of the others too long to lust- amazing bravery was exhibited under awful circumstances many many times.

 

[LVSteve]

A great general purpose joke, and +1000 on Vic's comments.

Similar story from the memoirs of the British comic Spike Milligan. He was a gunner in a 7.2" howitzer outfit. After a particularly fierce night engagement in Tunisia, a captured German officer said, "... the fire from your 24 heavy guns was the most accurate and intense I have ever experienced". There were but four 7.2s in that unit. Spike's comment? "No wonder we were shagged out".

 

[91/30refurb]

I like it, :thumbsup: thanks

 

[clayshooter2]

I like it, :thumbsup: thanks

+1 I couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[gremlin1945]

Speaking of heros here's a great story.His name is Tibor Rubin.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGUzTx3jgg0