Russian spy laughing through his execution in Finland, 1942

[silo]

A Soviet spy laughs at his executioner in a picture taken in Rukajärvi, in East Karelia, in November 1942. It has been thought within the Finnish Defence Forces that the decision to withhold pictures of the fate of Russian POWs and spies may also have been prompted by concerns that pro-Soviet elements in Finnish society could have used the images for propaganda purposes. This picture was declassified by the Ministry of Defense of Finland in the 2006, with the description: Unknown Soviet intelligence officer before being shot, Finland, 1942.

It’s a pretty amazing picture. To capture the last few moments of life. He knows he will die in a few seconds, in a forest in the snow. And there he will bleed out and be forgotten. His life, his experience, has come to an end. What else could he do but smile? That smile was his final Defiance. Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

 

[Abdullah S.]

Salute to the brave man's patriotism.

 

[alimobin memon]

A Soviet spy laughs at his executioner in a picture taken in Rukajärvi, in East Karelia, in November 1942. It has been thought within the Finnish Defence Forces that the decision to withhold pictures of the fate of Russian POWs and spies may also have been prompted by concerns that pro-Soviet elements in Finnish society could have used the images for propaganda purposes. This picture was declassified by the Ministry of Defense of Finland in the 2006, with the description: Unknown Soviet intelligence officer before being shot, Finland, 1942.

It’s a pretty amazing picture. To capture the last few moments of life. He knows he will die in a few seconds, in a forest in the snow. And there he will bleed out and be forgotten. His life, his experience, has come to an end. What else could he do but smile? That smile was his final Defiance. Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

not desiplaying can someone post this using proxy or something ?

 

[MastanKhan]

These are the very last expression frozen on the face of martyred Kashmiri freedom fighter!

Please repost and click on full image----thanks.

 

[Mike_Brando]

These are the very last expression frozen on the face of martyred Kashmiri freedom fighter!

Nah,he was smiling at his fate and for being such a foolish person to fall for the jehadi propaganda at the time of his death.Please don't compare a terrorist with a Martyred Russian Intelligence Officer who was a patriot to the last moment of his life!!

 

[FunkyGen]

Nah,he was smiling at his fate and for being such a foolish person to fall for the jehadi propaganda at the time of his death.Please don't compare a terrorist with a Martyred Russian Intelligence Officer who was a patriot to the last moment of his life!!

What an indian thinks about our martyrs is the least of our concerns... Glory to freedom!

 

[21 Dec 2012]

It’s a pretty amazing picture. To capture the last few moments of life. He knows he will die in a few seconds, in a forest in the snow. And there he will bleed out and be forgotten. His life, his experience, has come to an end. What else could he do but smile? That smile was his final Defiance. Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

That is some deep shit.

 

[Tea addict]

This picture was aso featured in a Youtube video name " 5 photos of people laughing in the face of the death"
here it is

 

[TopCat]

A Soviet spy laughs at his executioner in a picture taken in Rukajärvi, in East Karelia, in November 1942. It has been thought within the Finnish Defence Forces that the decision to withhold pictures of the fate of Russian POWs and spies may also have been prompted by concerns that pro-Soviet elements in Finnish society could have used the images for propaganda purposes. This picture was declassified by the Ministry of Defense of Finland in the 2006, with the description: Unknown Soviet intelligence officer before being shot, Finland, 1942.

It’s a pretty amazing picture. To capture the last few moments of life. He knows he will die in a few seconds, in a forest in the snow. And there he will bleed out and be forgotten. His life, his experience, has come to an end. What else could he do but smile? That smile was his final Defiance. Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

The dress up suggest (he was still wearing the cap) that he was not brought out of captivity rather caught and shot momentarily. That only suggest that he was trying to smile out of the situation and convince the shooter. After all he was a spy...

 

[FULL_METAL]

Ruskies are real badass people or is it the Vodka?

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

Drunk or a communist fanatic.Russians are brave no doubt,but this seems a bit odd behaviour.

 

[Gauss]

death is beautiful. its eternal peace.

 

[illusion8]

Арсен Чакиров (@ArsenChakirov) | Twitter

Since when did an Syrian militant become a Kashmiri freedom fighter?


I thought this job so far was only outsourced to Southern Pakistani Punjab

You guys leach off Turkish and Afghan conquers at least spare stealing credit of Arab militants.






Funniest part is the dude in the pic is not even dead

The desperation here.

Terrorists will go to any lengths and use any level of lies to forward their propaganda to gain jihadis...so will their sympathisers..We are dealing with some vile creatures in this world.

 

[Koovie]

Its truly impossible to feel what that man was feeling while facing death (literally)

 

[silo]

Drunk or a communist fanatic.Russians are brave no
doubt,but this seems a bit odd behaviour.

Ruskies are real badass people or is it the Vodka?

Salute to the brave man's patriotism.

They "savagely" decided to attack a country that was too poor-little-defenceless to harm or threaten the Soviet Union.
The true heroes/badass are the Finnish soldiers that were outnumbered,underequipped compared to the other side and that tried as good as they could to stop the Soviet invasion of Finland. The leadershp of USSR thought they could invade our country and walk in Helsinki in (at most) 2 weeks or less ! I've heard stories that parade uniforms have been found on the Soviet soldiers killed... So they were prepared to parade in Helsinki..

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"With Molotov cocktail in hands,
No fear of their tanks.....
Death or Glory!"