Tuntematon sotilas

[first lines]

Corporal:
The childhood plays are over now, recruit!

Corporal:
Here you don't smile! If someone can afford to smile in his civilian life, he must remember that here it is not allowed to neigh like a horse!

Viiril?:
I was in jail last night. My old man was drunk when he came back from the Winter War. On the following day he went to work having a terrible hangover. I was drunk too when I came here. And I'm also having a hangover now that I'm about to start the warfare.

Rahikainen:
[Hietanen has been promoted to petty officer] Well, Hietanen. Have you managed to get some p*ssy when you've been on vacation. Women, they like officers. I'm sure that they wet their paint right away, when they saw your stripes.

Hietanen:
You can never be silent of that one God damn thing that is allways on your mind. You're such a strange fellow, Rahikainen. If we survive alive from this war I will take you to our neighbourhood where you can act our bull.

Vuorela:
I need new boots.

M?kil?:
I'm in a hurry. I ain't got any time to give you any boots!

Hietanen:
Give Vuorela new boots right away! That's captain's order!

M?kil?:
Captain is giving orders like we'd be in America where they have equipments and supplies more than they need! You are allways asking captain to give you what you are begging for!

Hietanen:
Bloody hell! I never start to wonder how someone can love rags an cloths so much like you. Some boys love pretty girls. That is something that I understand. But rags and cloths! That so hard to swallow!

Kariluoto:
We'll go far! To the outer limits of our dreams! How many distorded smiles others have smiled to those dreams!

Lammio:
I haven't smile!

Kariluoto:
But many people have! We are the generation who will change the way how the history is made.

Karjula:
Where are you going, private!

Viiril?:
I'm going to Inari, to f*** with wolves.

Rahikainen:
[kicking the helmet of a dead Russian soldier] Hello there! Tell me if it's cold in the Russian hell!

Korpela:
[the Finnish Army is retreating] I want you to arranged me a transfer to another unit!

Lammio:
[confussed] What on earth? Which unit you are talking about?

Korpela:
I'm willing to go to the ass of the world as long as I don't have to look at your face.

Lammio:
[soldiers are whining about the food] If you don't like the food, you don't have to eat it. That is no compulsion.

Sihvonen:
[Soldiers are passing Tyynel?'s body that is laying on the ground] Where was he hit?

Salo:
In the cheek. The bullet came out of the neck.

Rahikainen:
That was the end of Tyynel?'s war.

Vera:
[the Finns have just invated Petrozavodsk] Why did you came? Why didn't you let us live in peace?

Executed Soldier:
[to the lieutenant] Give me a cigarrette, you f***ing dog! [lieutenant gives him a cigarrette] All right, do what you you have to do, you f***ing butchers! I'm getting cold!

Lieutenant, Leader of the Execution Group:
Scarves!

Executed Soldier:
I won't die with a rag on my eyes!

narrator

The younger troops assumed their ranks. There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty:
Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history. pg2

narrator

Once Koskela saw that the guns were ready to go, he called out, 'Shoot for their nuts!' pg56

LT Koskela

'Koskela the Finn. Eats iron and shits chains.' pg298

Major Sarastie to Rokka

'The battalion can operate very well without you. No man is indispensable in a war, no matter who he is.' pg356

Vanhala

'Finnish president Risto Ryti and the National Orchestra proudly present ... a polka:
"Up Sh*t Creek Without a F***ing Paddle".' pg421

Vanhala

'The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics won, but racing to the line for a strong second place came feisty little Finland.' -pg466

narrator

Rather dear, those boys. pg466