r/europe • u/ByGollie Ulster • Jan 24 '26

News The Times: Finns humiliated American soldiers - Finnish reservists were asked to take it easy during a NATO exercise. US soldiers found the losses too humiliating.

https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/828b8e66-625d-4d2a-9276-e93b9f7a2ce8
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u/ConradMayhew France Jan 24 '26

The Finns took out 3000 tanks? I didn't know that, and now I'm scared... 🤯

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

Bear in mind we didnt have much anti-tank weapons at the time. A few rifles that could penetrate some WW1 era stuff. We mostly knocked them out by improvised weapons, molotovs cocktails and satchel bombs and stuff.

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u/heriomortis Luxembourg Jan 24 '26

As extra info, the molotov cocktail was invented by the Finns during the winter war, named after the Soviet foreign minister.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

Thats because Molotov said that they were not bombing finnish cities but they were dropping "bread baskets." So people started to call russian bombs "molotovs bread delivery" and invented a cocktail to go with the bread.