- Write Who You Know: Many if not most of the characters are inspired by or composites of the actual people Linna knew during the war. Two of them - Rokka and Koskela - were meant to be direct literary counterparts of two men he knew there; Viljam Pylkäs and Einari Kokkonen, respectively.
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