Arguments for cringe: Possibly killed up to 500 Soviet soldiers during The Winter War with the USSR, and is often masturbated to by chuds as a result.
Arguments for based: Him doing this was arguably justified self-defense, as the Soviet Union did initiate the conflict and draw first blood by invading Finland due to them not handing over some land they wanted.
Häyhä joined the White Guard at age 17. He might not have been a frothing-at-the-mouth reactionary, but he did pick the nationalist side to fight on.