> Finnish soldiers displaying the skins of Soviet soldiers near Maaselkä, on the strand of lake Seesjärvi during Continuation War on the 15th of December in 1942. Original caption: “An enemy recon patrol that was cut out of food supplies had butchered a few members of their own patrol group, and had eaten most of them.”
kelovitro on
Like, “finding” or, y’know… “fiiinding” ?
comrade_fluffy on
The Finnish soldiers stumbled upon an Soviet patrol and found remains from 2 bodies what were already mostly eaten by the rest of the patrol. Supposedly there are photos on the internet what show the bones and etc from the bodies. Personally I have never seen the photos. But they most likely do exist.
Some people think that this is a staged photo by the Finnish army. But most people have accepted the fact that this did happen. It wasnt uncommon to find human meat in Soviet rugsacks when they were captured
StrawhatPirate on
A Soviet infiltrator patrol consisting of four men—Jaakko Anttila (a Finnish defector), Milton Sevander (an American Finn who had migrated to the USSR during the Great Depression), Aleksandr Gerasimov, and Gennadi Timofeyev—was abandoned in the Olonets region in the autumn of 1942 without food supplies. As Lake Onega began to freeze, they were cut off from returning to their side. Although they requested food replenishment by air, none arrived.
As their food supplies dwindled, the situation became dire. Timofeyev broke his ankle in an accident, prompting Anttila, the patrol leader, to kill him with an axe. The remaining three men prepared and rationed Timofeyev’s body for sustenance.
About a week later, starvation loomed again. This time, Anttila shot Gerasimov in the back of the head while he was shaving. Gerasimov’s body was flayed, prepared, and eaten.
The gunshot alerted a nearby Finnish patrol, leading to the capture of Anttila and Sevander on November 11, 1942. Both were court-martialed and sentenced to death by firing squad as spies. However, Sevander, being an American citizen, was granted leniency and sent to a prison camp. Anttila was executed on December 12, 1942, for high treason and espionage.
A Finnish medical officer examined the remains of the slaughtered and eaten Soviets and compiled a report on the incident.
(From older thread, it had links to a few things too).
BeginningNeither3318 on
Get to the chopper!
Seastep on
So THAT’S why they’re so happy?
Inner-Silver9898 on
Was the skin displayed there by the patrol who found it so it could be photographed of was it found on those branches already? I assume the first option but still, quite strange story
dr_pickles on
there is a fairly graphic scene in a Murakami book about skinning someone..alive would be horrible but even dead it takes a significant amount of time and the resulting corpse has to be one of the most viscerally disturbing things a human could see.
CrazyTeaLady12 on
Holy shit! That’s insane and morbidly impressive. This was done so meticulously… wow
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Wtfffffff
I mean it’s either starving to death or eating your fellow soldier
[Additional context](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maaselk%C3%A4_cannibalism.jpg) from Wikimedia:
> Finnish soldiers displaying the skins of Soviet soldiers near Maaselkä, on the strand of lake Seesjärvi during Continuation War on the 15th of December in 1942. Original caption: “An enemy recon patrol that was cut out of food supplies had butchered a few members of their own patrol group, and had eaten most of them.”
Like, “finding” or, y’know… “fiiinding” ?
The Finnish soldiers stumbled upon an Soviet patrol and found remains from 2 bodies what were already mostly eaten by the rest of the patrol. Supposedly there are photos on the internet what show the bones and etc from the bodies. Personally I have never seen the photos. But they most likely do exist.
Some people think that this is a staged photo by the Finnish army. But most people have accepted the fact that this did happen. It wasnt uncommon to find human meat in Soviet rugsacks when they were captured
A Soviet infiltrator patrol consisting of four men—Jaakko Anttila (a Finnish defector), Milton Sevander (an American Finn who had migrated to the USSR during the Great Depression), Aleksandr Gerasimov, and Gennadi Timofeyev—was abandoned in the Olonets region in the autumn of 1942 without food supplies. As Lake Onega began to freeze, they were cut off from returning to their side. Although they requested food replenishment by air, none arrived.
As their food supplies dwindled, the situation became dire. Timofeyev broke his ankle in an accident, prompting Anttila, the patrol leader, to kill him with an axe. The remaining three men prepared and rationed Timofeyev’s body for sustenance.
About a week later, starvation loomed again. This time, Anttila shot Gerasimov in the back of the head while he was shaving. Gerasimov’s body was flayed, prepared, and eaten.
The gunshot alerted a nearby Finnish patrol, leading to the capture of Anttila and Sevander on November 11, 1942. Both were court-martialed and sentenced to death by firing squad as spies. However, Sevander, being an American citizen, was granted leniency and sent to a prison camp. Anttila was executed on December 12, 1942, for high treason and espionage.
A Finnish medical officer examined the remains of the slaughtered and eaten Soviets and compiled a report on the incident.
(From older thread, it had links to a few things too).
Get to the chopper!
So THAT’S why they’re so happy?
Was the skin displayed there by the patrol who found it so it could be photographed of was it found on those branches already? I assume the first option but still, quite strange story
there is a fairly graphic scene in a Murakami book about skinning someone..alive would be horrible but even dead it takes a significant amount of time and the resulting corpse has to be one of the most viscerally disturbing things a human could see.
Holy shit! That’s insane and morbidly impressive. This was done so meticulously… wow
Are all Europeans savages?
Was he okay?
Who tf skinned him though?
This picture.damaged my brain.