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Simo Häyhä (17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002) was a Finnish sniper known to the Red Army as White Death  He was certified in combat by killing 505 Soviet soldiers with a modified Mosin-Nagant ammunition in the Winter War, setting a record for killing a high number of enemy soldiers. Additionally, an additional 200 enemy soldiers were later killed with the 9mm Suomi, a submachine gun, bringing the confirmed total number of soldiers killed to 705, with less than 100 days remaining.

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Häyhä was born in the town of Rautjärvi, near the present-day Finland-Russia border, and his military service began in 1925. Before entering the war, Häyhä was a farmer and hunter. At the age of 20, he joined the Finnish militia and achieved much success with his sniping skills in shooting sports in Viipuri province. He filled his farmhouse with shooting trophies.

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The Soviets tried to stop Häyhä with other snipers and artillery support. As a result, he was shot in the lower left jaw by a Russian soldier on March 6, 1940. When he was found by soldiers, his lower face was shattered, but he was not dead. The war ended with the peace treaty declared on March 13, the day he came to his senses. After this incident, a rumor spread that he died due to the injuries he received. He underwent long treatments and surgeries in Jyväskylä and Helsinki. Shortly after the war, Häyhä was promoted to the rank of corporal and then to the rank of second lieutenant by Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. Never before in Finnish Military history has anyone been promoted so quickly.

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II. After World War II he became a successful deer hunter and dog breeder and hunted with Finnish President Urho Kekkonen. When asked in 1998 how he became such a good bowler, he replied: "Just by practicing." sign in. Another question asked whether he regretted the people he killed. In response, "I just did my duty and what I was told because they didn't do it." Simo Häyhä spent the last years of his life in Ruokolahti, a small village located in the southeastern region, close to the Russian border.