Talk:Sulo Kolkka

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Is this article neutral? Seems a bit propagandic, even for me as a Finn.

I believe that while the number is often counted at 280+, it has been collaborated by several soviet writings and documents, I'll try to dig some info up and add it to this article if I get the time.

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I changed the measurements to show metric first. Already during the war, both Finland and the USSR were completely, totally and utterly metric. I won't have some Anglosaxon putting words into our mouths. — JIP | Talk 11:15, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Does Sulo Kolkka really exist? Has somebody found information about him outside internet? (Finnish books etc.)

[edit] Some strange similarities with Simo_Häyhä

The information relating to his alternative use of a submachine gun and the number of kills he achieved using it (200) is almost identical to parts of the entry for Simo_Häyhä (another Finish sniper).... not just in facts, but also choice of words. Was someone mixing up the facts by accident?

Kolkka:

In addition to the kills he made as a sniper, Kolkka also was apparently quite fond of the submachine gun as he made an additional 200 kills with it during this same time frame.

Häyhä:

Besides his sniper kills, Simo Häyhä is known to have made well over two hundred kills with a submachine gun, a weapon he was very fond of.

Deon Steyn 06:10, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

As said, it is higly possible, even likely, that Sulo Kolkka never existed and that he is rather a creation of some foreign corresponder and that stories about Simo Häyhä (who was a real person) could have been connected with the story of Kolkka.

[edit] Urban legend

Sulo Kolkka might be an urban legend. So far very little information is found from Finnish books and even there has been an officer called Sulo Kolkka (born in 1904, Säkkijärvi) reader must be very critical when using "the facts" of this article. --Tbonefin 07:18, 7 November 2005 (UTC)