Finnish photographer Osvald Hedenström took this photo in 1941 and it's really weird.
, the hanging trees are not an optical illusion or cloned on Photoshop — but a type of camouflage used by Finland during World War II to disguise the road from Soviet forces.Almost 75% of Finland is covered in trees and the Finnish decided to make use of the country’s natural resources as a method of concealment and defense in World War II.
“The Finns didn’t have funds to buy artificial camouflage such as nets in vast quantities,” military historian Colonel Petteri Jouko tells“The Finns have camouflaged the road to Raate, about 10 km from Russia, with pines hanging in the air, because right on the border there is an observation tower erected by the Russians,” Hedenström writes in a caption accompanying the photo.
Pine trees were hung from cables which were connected to poles on the right-hand side of the road. The trees were strategically installed there to obscure the view from the nearby enemy Russian tower.reports that the erected trees would not conceal the road from aircraft. But if Russian forces were looking at the area from a watchtower, all they would be able to see was an uninterrupted line of trees.
The image is now part of the Finnish Defence Force’s photographic Archive, which contains 160,000 photos captured between 1939 and 1945, when Finland fought two separate wars against the Soviet Union.
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