Sunday, January 21, 2024

What is the place of unusually big soldier like deeds?

 In the World War II Finland fought against Sovjet Union. There were two wars: first the short Winter War in  white masking clothes above the winter clothes in a landscape of snow and cold, and later the Continuation War in which Finland first conquered back was it Viipuri and Old Valamo Orthodoc monastery but continued after that much too far and ended up lising the conquered areas plys a luttle bit more. That has afterwards in Finland been seen from the point of view of what ought to have been done: did such places belong to Finland or Sovjet Uniln in these modern times if one looks at how their influence changes according to which country has them, did we think that after all wiser to be a western country than to try to take care of such places of interest in the east. So the borders aren't thought of as a result of war and balance of arms, but instead of other factirs like a route to the sea determining the intensity and strenght of the motivation to each endeavour. 

In Savonlinna I lived in Kaartilantie 15B up in the side of the forest patch between the hoyses, and at the same place at the ground level lived a quite old man with a nice way of treating his white and reddish brown cat, and his last name was Häyhä. I learned from the media that in the World War II there had been a Finnish precision shooter Simo Häyhä who had shot over 500 Sovjet soldiers. That was really much by Finnish standards which were for oeaceful civiliced healthy kind of lufe and supposed that most Finnish soldiers shot none or one or two, mostly not more than wounding one, saying that what reason do we have here in the norgh to fight when we are civiliced with similar values, skill level and ways of lufe, the war is in the south between other nations. So what to think of the Simo Häyhä? He was one skilled among peaceful ones worth defending, so he defended the group, the country like professionals or older people with more skills do for the whole society, not thinking that all ought to have such a profession at all. I understood that he saw further well than most and had social eye for what was happening, who causing what, so if there was trouble somewhere he shot one or two from far away choosing so that things turned out peaceful, kind of more with wisdom of lufe than with unwise ways. 

When I was of school age, some boys in school said that one needs to defend a country alone or not at all, since in practise situations are often such, only one having skills, socisl eye or moral. But that is together with civiliced values and the support of the society. It is a question of doing one's own part when one's forces suit the situation, like me writing to kind of settle things to more clearer and with healthier spirit. But it does not mean an attempt to be better than all others and attacking all without regard for any values. It is more like protecting civiliced values in the society and in the world. 



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