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The Unknown Soldier

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The Unknown Soldier	comment	The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas) is a novel by Finnish author Väinö Linna. It is a war novel set during the Second World War on the Finnish-Soviet front between 1941 to 1944 (known as the Continuation War in Finnish historiography). The story describes the tour of duty of a Finnish machine gun company and its men. The main protagonists are the men of rank and file and lower-ranking officers, who are all conscripts or reservists.(Not to be confused with the DC Comics character of the same name.)The novel is based on Linna's own experiences in the war before he was promoted to Sergeant and transferred to recruit training. Many of the protagonist personae are loosely based on real life persons from Linna's patchwork regiment where many soldiers came from different regions of Finland. The Unknown Soldier is considered a deep analysis of the psychology of soldiers and the effects of war on people as well as the makings of a good soldier.The book is written in extremely realistic style. Battle scenes are not sanitized, and the traits, personalities and psychologies of the soldiers are well portrayed. Because of its utter naturalism, it is considered heavily an anti-war novel rather than a heroic epic.During its writing, the Unknown Soldier saw extensive Executive Meddling by the publisher WSOY. The vulgarity of Linna's writing as well as many of the negative remarks by the characters of the book towards Finnish military high command, religion, communism, Soviet Union and the war itself were considered too Politically Incorrect for 1950s Finland and subsequently significant amount of these comments were deleted from the final release of the book by the publisher without them consulting with Linna about it. On the other hand the publisher also removed extensive Author Filibusters by the narrator that the publisher and many readers alike felt ruined the flow of the book and were oftentimes Anvilicious in nature. An uncut version of Linna's writings was published in 2000 under the title Sotaromaani (A War Novel). Whether these last minute changes ultimately improved the work or not is still hotly debated by critics and audiences alike.The book has been translated into many languages; however the original English translation is very poorly translated. It not only omits some scenes but even changes some character's personalities entirely. A new English translation has been made in 2015 by Penguin Classics under the title Unknown Soldiers.The novel has been made into a film several times. A black and white movie was made by Edvin Laine in 1955, and a color one by Rauni Mollberg in 1985. A third adaptation was released in October 27th, 2017, with a 7 million euro budget - the biggest and most expensive Finnish movie to date - with its premiere being part of the nationwide celebrations of the 100th year of Finnish independence.Compare with the works of James Jones for roughly similar American works about World War II.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1122ec31	type	Farm Boy
The Unknown Soldier / int_1122ec31	comment	Farm Boy: Finland still being a relatively poor, agricultural, unurbanized country, many of the characters come from small low income farms. Linna himself did so too, and was fond of the character type. At least Hietanen, Rokka, Susi, Salo and Mäkilä all are mentioned to have farming background, and with Koskela it's emphasized that deep within, he's just a simple gentle Farm Boy.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Unknown Soldier / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: And they do. They really do.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_12575a9f	type	Friendly Sniper
The Unknown Soldier / int_12575a9f	comment	Friendly Sniper: Corporal Rokka, with a Suomi submachine gun. He single-handedly slaughters a Soviet ski company in an ambush. This is based on a Real Life event.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
The Unknown Soldier / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: As Riitaoja's condition grows worse, he starts to mutter to himself.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Unknown Soldier / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: 2nd Lieutenant Jalovaara, when war is over. He falls in a heap, crying openly over the fate of Finland. Kariluoto experiences one when he returns to the front from his Wartime Wedding and finally understands the army has practically collapsed and defeat is unavoidable.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
The Unknown Soldier / int_14c791fb	comment	Conflicting Loyalty: Because of the deep social and political divisions in the 1940's Finland, some of the soldiers feel they're fighting in the ranks of their enemies (the capitalists) against their ideological brethren (the communist Soviets). The prime example is corporal Lahtinen.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
The Unknown Soldier / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: Half the cast, but Hietanen and Rokka take the cake.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_159ce749	type	Ensign Newbie
The Unknown Soldier / int_159ce749	comment	Ensign Newbie: Second Lieutenant Kariluoto. Also Second Lieutenant Jalovaara.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_18d420b0	type	Lovable Coward
The Unknown Soldier / int_18d420b0	comment	Lovable Coward: Riitaoja. He's afraid like a child and incapable of controlling his panic. Most other characters don't hold it against him, because they all know they're afraid too. Instead his vulnerable childlike personality is endearing and discourages mockery or cruelty.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
The Unknown Soldier / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: The soldiers don't hate the enemy, and when Russians are caught as prisoners, most characters treat them with sympathy, curiousness and friendliness.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
The Unknown Soldier / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: The first act follows in detail how the young soldiers little by little grow apathetic to the horrors around them, and begin to accept them as part of their daily life.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
The Unknown Soldier / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Corporal Lehto. He is one of the most unpleasant characters in the book. However, he isn't unfair or unreasonable, simply very rough and emotionally cold. Even when he kicks the poor Riitaoja who's lying crying on the ground, Lehto is actually trying to force him to stand up and carry on, because otherwise he would get left behind the enemy lines and certainly die. Notably, he's the only one to stay for Riitaoja and make sure he gets back up. It works.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1b70ccc6	type	The Cynic
The Unknown Soldier / int_1b70ccc6	comment	The Cynic: Corporal Lahtinen. He not only has a very cynical view of the world and the human societies, he's also the resident grump who at the times of success and general excitement seemingly enjoys bringing others down with ominous predictions of future difficulties.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
The Unknown Soldier / int_1badfb3a	comment	The Heart: Sergeant Hietanen. He genuinely likes and cares about people, and it's easy to like him.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
The Unknown Soldier / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Their constant fear. The randomness of the such deaths makes it all the worse.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Unknown Soldier / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Koskela, Määttä, Lehto.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1c6dc230	type	Dad the Veteran
The Unknown Soldier / int_1c6dc230	comment	Dad the Veteran: Lieutenant Koskela's father was a company commander for the Reds in Finnish Civil War.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
The Unknown Soldier / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Lieutenant Koskela, who is nicknamed Ville Vaitelias ("Silent Billy"). Also Määttä.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
The Unknown Soldier / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: The whole war and the (lack of) justification behind it.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Unknown Soldier / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Rokka and Susi. They're Child Hood Friends and neighbors, who fought together already in the Winter War, and now don't want to be separated from each other. Rokka even makes a number of it when it's suggested that they would have to sleep in separate rooms. Near the end Susi is wounded, but Rokka refuses to leave him behind, and is himself wounded while carrying Susi on his shoulders.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
The Unknown Soldier / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: The war time propaganda is poured on the men. However, it fails to have any effect on any of but the absolutely most naive characters. Instead, the soldiers mock and parody the propaganda and its empty phrases. Vanhala also takes great pleasure in the Soviet propaganda. During the trench warfare, whenever he's on the watch duty, he shouts back hilarious counters to the Soviet propaganda blasted at them from the loudspeakers.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1f0efc09	type	Unusual Weapon Mounting
The Unknown Soldier / int_1f0efc09	comment	Unusual Weapon Mounting: The machine guns on the bows of the assault launches.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1f6a62cc	type	Winter Warfare
The Unknown Soldier / int_1f6a62cc	comment	Winter Warfare: The war lasts for three years. Two important battle scenes happen in wintertime, in deep snow and cold weather.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1f6ec528	type	Would Not Shoot a Civilian
The Unknown Soldier / int_1f6ec528	comment	Would Not Shoot a Civilian: Played straight.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_1f862cf	type	Dare to Be Badass
The Unknown Soldier / int_1f862cf	comment	Dare to Be Badass: 2nd Lieutenant Kariluoto.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_20215dc6	type	Primal Fear
The Unknown Soldier / int_20215dc6	comment	Primal Fear: The pure naturalism of all the misery and physical danger the men are in crawls out of the pages. The characters are exhausted and sleep deprived but still can't find shelter and have to stay alert and make life-or-death decisions. They're hungry for days with no knowing where and when they will find food. they're lost or in the danger of being lost far from home, in deep wilderness or in countryside of enemy territory. They cross rivers that could drown them and marshes that could swallow them. They try to find their own and avoid the enemy in dark nightly forests where nothing can be seen. They're exposed to freezing cold, to explosions and to gun fire. They're sent out far from their own and all they can do is hope that the higher ups know what they're doing and that they won't lose their communication to the operation control. Their bodies are shot through holes, torn apart, cut with shrapnels, burned and crushed...
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The Unknown Soldier / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
The Unknown Soldier / int_2059a430	comment	The Hedonist: Rahikainen in particular, but actually most of the men are far more interested in carnal pleasures than the high goals of the war.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Unknown Soldier / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Finnish and Russian soldiers are this to each other. There's no real hatred, they're all just doing what they're told to do.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The Unknown Soldier / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Kariluoto really isn't in the kind of war story he thinks he's in. Lammio's strict martinet style leadership really isn't the kind what would make him respected.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_213e1088	type	Losing the Team Spirit
The Unknown Soldier / int_213e1088	comment	Losing the Team Spirit: The third act of the novel is basically the main characters taking beating after a beating to the point of ceasing to have any shame at running away from the enemy. Even those who would like to try to stand and fight don't bother too much, because they know that even if they hold their ground, the guys next to them will give in and flee. This is incredibly stressful and demoralizing to the officers, who are trying to organize defense, but nothing works when the men lack the will to fight.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_21f60711	type	Good Is Not Soft
The Unknown Soldier / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: Lieutenant Koskela and sergeant Hietanen are probably the most genuinely good-hearted characters in the story, and also among the best, most efficient soldiers in it. Also Captain Kariluoto, once he takes number of levels in badass.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Unknown Soldier / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: After Lehto murders a prisoner of war and others, having heard the shot and the cry, come to see what happened: "What did he do?" "Died."
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The Unknown Soldier / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
The Unknown Soldier / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: The era is seething with the (racist, militaristic) patriotism of the 1930s. During the initial attack phase the whole country is high on endorphin.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
The Unknown Soldier / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: On many levels, to the point that this trope could be seen as the heart of the novel. The reality is that when a small nation gets high on patriotic fervor and tries to take on a much larger neighbor, hoping to build "Greater Finland," Spoiler: it doesn't end well. All the nationalistic, idealistic dreams of the intellectual elite of the day are mercilessly shot down as unrealistic and in fact immoral. All pathetic, romantic beliefs of the heroism of war and warriors are torn to pieces. Hollow pro-war propaganda meets the dirty reality and doesn't survive the encounter.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
The Unknown Soldier / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: The novel's style is very naturalistic, not shying away from describing any side of the life on the front. Also some characters speak like this, especially Lehto.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Unknown Soldier / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: In a society still deeply torn by a Civil War fought only 23 years ago, Kariluoto comes from a decidedly White background (right wing, upper class, highly educated, idealistic) and Koskela from a Red background (leftist, working class, lowly educated, down-to-earth). However, after initially somewhat looking down upon Koskela, after Koskela proves himself in the practical reality of war, Kariluoto comes to greatly appreciate him and even hold him as a personal role model, seeking for his approval and valuing his praise. Doubles as Inter Class Friendship.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Unknown Soldier / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Everything the characters went through during their three years of war was completely pointless in the end.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
The Unknown Soldier / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Vera. She's understandably not happy about the enemy occupation of her home city, and treats the Finnish soldiers visiting her with cool if polite distance. However, she warms up slightly to Hietanen's genuinely good heart... though not enough to let him have any real hopes with her.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
The Unknown Soldier / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: Finns and Soviets used weapons of same caliber and cartridge size. The Finns always looted Soviet ammunition when they had a chance. Machine guns are notoriously dakka-hungry. Also played straight by Corporal Rokka as he single-handedly destroys a Soviet ski company with a submachine gun in an ambush. He has Private Lampinen with him just to fill up the magazines. He empties seventeen magazines.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_2c27353f	type	Was It Really Worth It?
The Unknown Soldier / int_2c27353f	comment	Was It Really Worth It?: In the beginning, the narrator wonders if the people who ask "were our sacrifices in the Winter War too heavy" really sacrificed that much themselves, for them to be asking such things. At the end of the novel, Finland gains nothing from the war, and the only success it has is managing to avoid the worst, aka being occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_2c77fae3	type	Darkness Equals Death
The Unknown Soldier / int_2c77fae3	comment	Darkness Equals Death: The deep dark of the nightly forests is full of danger and death, filling the men with terror of the unseen. Lehto dies while trying to find their own in the darkness, unable to see the enemy just ahead of him.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
The Unknown Soldier / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: While the definition of bad guy and hero is tricky if not impossible here, let's just say that yeah, the protagonists lose the war. And they know it half way into the story. The rest is just them coming into terms with their inevitable defeat and the futility of their sufferings.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_31578d72	type	Hates Everyone Equally
The Unknown Soldier / int_31578d72	comment	Hates Everyone Equally: Private Korpela. Also Corporal Lehto.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_31c4280	type	Conscription
The Unknown Soldier / int_31c4280	comment	Conscription: All the rank and file and the junior officers are either conscripts or reservists.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
The Unknown Soldier / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Vanhala ships Hietanen / Vera.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_3283f169	type	Coming and Going
The Unknown Soldier / int_3283f169	comment	Coming and Going: The story is as full of life as it is of death, and almost as full of sex (or talk or dreams of it) as it is of dying. The men are constantly afraid of death, but they never speak about it, instead their topic of choice is almost always either sex or food (unless it's complaining about the circumstances and the bad decisions of the higher ups.) At one point, when they're trying to shrug off their shock at one of their own dying, someone comments that "All that's lost is life received through fucking.". Lehto also compares battle to horses having sex.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_32e279c4	type	Humans Are Flawed
The Unknown Soldier / int_32e279c4	comment	Humans Are Flawed: Very much so, and among other things it drives them to die in pointless wars, but still the story doesn't give up on humanity altogether.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_330cfa9a	type	I Just Want to Be Badass
The Unknown Soldier / int_330cfa9a	comment	Even though, this isn't meant to be simply a straightforwardly heroic thing to do. Salo has through the story wanted to be braver than he is, only to be put down and mocked by the others. Now he uses this opportunity to shine, even if it means unreasonably and pointlessly exposing himself to mortal danger. But it works - the other characters are so impressed with his bravery that their entire memories of him are changed, and even though they never see him again, from then on they remember him as a brave man.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_3497a64e	type	Long-Distance Relationship
The Unknown Soldier / int_3497a64e	comment	Long-Distance Relationship: Any relationships the men have are turned into this for three years.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_3511c4d7	type	Plunder
The Unknown Soldier / int_3511c4d7	comment	Plunder: Usually for ammunition and supplies. Rahikainen in particular puts himself into greater danger to aquire these extra supplies than he ever would in battle.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_36505b8	type	I Shall Return
The Unknown Soldier / int_36505b8	comment	I Shall Return: Corporal Rokka as he gets wounded in action and is stretchered away. He says to the stretcher bearers: "Goddammit, carry me head first. I won't be leaving here feet first." His Real Life counterpart, Viljam Pylkäs, survived the war unscathed.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_366dfa01	type	Silly Reason for War
The Unknown Soldier / int_366dfa01	comment	Silly Reason for War: The rank and file generally consider the dream of Greater Finland not worth of their lives. However, they did agree that trying to get back the areas lost in the Winter War was a legitimate reason for war and something they were willing to fight for. Later on the war turns into fight for survival of Finland, which they all find important.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_3a967286	type	Handsome Lech
The Unknown Soldier / int_3a967286	comment	Handsome Lech: Rahikainen. He's constantly chasing skirts, whenever the opportunity arises. Usually he's successful, but not always. When he's not occupied with some woman, he's bragging about his previous conquests and planning future ones.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Unknown Soldier / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Many characters stay rather static through the story, but some go through clear arcs. Most notably to 2nd Lieutenant Kariluoto, who grows from Ensign Newbie into The Captain. Likewise, 2nd Lieutenant Jalovaara, who is initially Ensign Newbie, becomes the most competent officer in the company, and Major Lammio's trustee. Lammio becomes the battalion commander after the death of Major Sarastie. Sergeant Hietanen grows up from a carefree Manchild to a serious and even brooding man that can be counted on. Vanhala grows out of his shyness and proves to be a reliable man and a good soldier.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Unknown Soldier / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: First Finland and Nazi Germany deliver this to the Soviet Union. Then the tables are turned...
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The Unknown Soldier / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
The Unknown Soldier / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Kariluoto, initially. He mostly grows out of it, but not entirely.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
The Unknown Soldier / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: Corporal Lahtinen. Not with sniper rifle, though, but with Maxim machine gun.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_40661ab8	type	Men Are Tough
The Unknown Soldier / int_40661ab8	comment	Men Are Tough: The underlying assumption all the male characters are trying to live up to, with varying success.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
The Unknown Soldier / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: The usual Soviet tactics. Especially the Soviet assault where Corporal Lahtinen gets killed. Early in the book, Lahtinen responds to the boast "a Finnish soldier is as good as ten Soviets" with the matter-of-fact "yes, but what do you do when the eleventh one comes?"
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The Unknown Soldier / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
The Unknown Soldier / int_42176a2d	comment	Comedy as a Weapon: Both the author and the characters use parody and comedy as means of shooting down propaganda and idealism.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
The Unknown Soldier / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Lieutenant Koskela habitually ignores rules and even moral to ease the life of his men, who are suffering of genuine hunger and exhaustion. Ultimately, when he ends up filling in as the battalion leader, he disobeys the Division leader's command for the battalion to keep on attacking in a hopeless situation and instead organizes a retreat through the marshes to save the battalion from being closed in and destroyed in a cauldron. He is mercilessly verbally torn down for it in front of his men by the said division leader once he and the battalion get back to friendly territory.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_44cdd259	type	War Is Glorious
The Unknown Soldier / int_44cdd259	comment	War Is Glorious: Due to the ideology of the day, some characters at least initially believe this, only to be dropped from such fantasies by the grim reality. Private Rahikainen earns well as a scrounger and feels this way. Otherwise the trope gets well averted.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Unknown Soldier / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: This type of idealism isn't exactly understood by the author, or the men of whom it is asked of.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_45157041	type	Even Mooks Have Loved Ones
The Unknown Soldier / int_45157041	comment	Even Mooks Have Loved Ones: During the first act the protagonists kill Russian soldiers left and right, without too many moral problems with it. During the second act they conquer a Russian city. There they meet and befriend young Russian children, who were orphaned when their father fell during the Finnish assault.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_46410e0c	type	Win-Win Ending
The Unknown Soldier / int_46410e0c	comment	Win-Win Ending: The narrator gently mocks the idea that Finland somehow "won" in the Winter War.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_4764ce3a	type	Military Moonshiner
The Unknown Soldier / int_4764ce3a	comment	Military Moonshiner: Sergeant Hietanen's half-platoon.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Unknown Soldier / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Private Riitaoja. There's absolutely nothing funny about it either, his misfortune is just gut-wrenching.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_4966bf38	type	Perpetual Motion Machine
The Unknown Soldier / int_4966bf38	comment	Perpetual Motion Machine: Honkajoki claims he's working on one.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Unknown Soldier / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The forested wilderness and the countryside of Karelia are beautiful and Linna knows just how to describe them. The beauty and peace of nature forms a constant background to the violence, death, suffering and immorality taking place within its woods and fields.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_4d54f0e8	type	Losing Is Worse Than Death
The Unknown Soldier / int_4d54f0e8	comment	Losing Is Worse Than Death: Kariluoto collapses into a tearful Heroic BSoD when it finally dawns on him that Finland is going to lose the war. He's willing to rather die to not to have to see it.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Unknown Soldier / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: There's a small Hope Springs Eternal sparkle to it, but it's hard to get past the fact that majority of the cast is dead, the war is lost and Finland gained nothing from the whole useless affair.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_4e8b83a	type	That's an Order!
The Unknown Soldier / int_4e8b83a	comment	That's an Order!: Captain Lammio, many times. He personifies the authoritarian "Prussian" style of leadership taught to the officers at the time. Men do not react to it kindly, and spend much of their time mocking it, at times even questioning the orders given. However, at the end, with only a very few exceptions they do obey.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_4fbc0887	type	Beneath the Mask
The Unknown Soldier / int_4fbc0887	comment	Beneath the Mask: Most characters keep their truest self, thoughts and feelings to themselves, and maintain a mask of tough stoicism, boisterous masculinity or boyish cheerfulness.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_509f178b	type	Stand Your Ground
The Unknown Soldier / int_509f178b	comment	Leading to when Rokka is saved from being sentenced to prison for disobedience only because the battalion leader decides to forgive him one last time, and when Viirilä is shot on spot for refusing to obey orders to Stand Your Ground.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_52f2c74c	type	Mating Dance
The Unknown Soldier / int_52f2c74c	comment	Mating Dance: Subverted. Vera herself doesn't she her dance as flirty, she simply enjoys dancing for the sake of it, but the men watching it interpret it as sexual. Hietanen too is aroused by her movements, and thinks back to the wonder of her dancing long after they have parted for good.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
The Unknown Soldier / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Private, later Lance Corporal and even later Corporal Määttä. He is noted for his small stature.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Unknown Soldier / int_558245a7	comment	Redshirt Army: The losses of the machine gun company are heavy.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_55a28534	type	Fearless Fool
The Unknown Soldier / int_55a28534	comment	Fearless Fool: Asumaniemi, who is exceptionally brave simply because he's too young and foolish to understand this deadly game could actually really get him killed. He finally understands it during the last five seconds of his life.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_56996e6a	type	Returning War Vet
The Unknown Soldier / int_56996e6a	comment	Returning War Vet: Corporal Rokka, Private Susi and Lieutenant Koskela were all veterans of Winter War from a few years earlier.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Unknown Soldier / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Lieutenant Koskela, who appears in Linna's major opus Under the North Star. Likewise, whenever the characters meet men of others troops, who have fought in nearby fronts.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_59aee78a	type	Class Clown
The Unknown Soldier / int_59aee78a	comment	Class Clown: Private Honkajoki A, A-1. He has assumed his comedic role to pass his and other's time during the slow, wearisome trench war of frozen fronts, and by now is so immersed in his role that he can't act normally again.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_5bad2ab4	type	Military Maverick
The Unknown Soldier / int_5bad2ab4	comment	Military Maverick: Corporal Rokka could well be the Trope Maker. Also Private Viirilä. Leading to when Rokka is saved from being sentenced to prison for disobedience only because the battalion leader decides to forgive him one last time, and when Viirilä is shot on spot for refusing to obey orders to Stand Your Ground.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_5f0546a2	type	The Scrounger
The Unknown Soldier / int_5f0546a2	comment	The Scrounger: Private Rahikainen. He never participates in the fighting in any meaningful way, but is essential to keeping the rest of the platoon at least moderately fed.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
The Unknown Soldier / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Private Kaukonen. During the first real battle, the narrator follows Kaukonen's actions and thoughts... only to have him abruptly shot. His dead body is the first time the other characters get to experience the sight of their own dead, and makes strong impression on them. Later on he and his death is mentioned only twice, years later by the narrator.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
The Unknown Soldier / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Lehto and Riitaoja are important characters in the first act, and the first central characters to die, only one-thirds to the story. Lahtinen is likewise central character, but dies halfway in the second act.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Unknown Soldier / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Viirilä is probably the best soldier in the battalion... but the other characters can never quite figure out if he's mentally insane or not. Rokka and Kariluoto suspect that he's truly off the deep end.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_62ec4b15	type	Cast of Expies
The Unknown Soldier / int_62ec4b15	comment	Cast of Expies: Linna consciously drew inspiration from a culturally important 19th century novel, Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi, and mentioned half seriously that his novel was the story of Kivi's brothers going to war. The story does have a core cast of about 7 or 8 men, all part of the Band of Brothers, and similarities have been seen between them and the brothers of Kivi's novel. See also Write Who You Know.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_62ef4163	type	Boot Camp Episode
The Unknown Soldier / int_62ef4163	comment	Boot Camp Episode: At the beginning, the characters are still doing their compulsory military service and being thoroughly tired of it. When the war breaks out and they're sent out of the barracks into the front, they're excited about this change in their tedious life.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_64070096	type	Cowardly Lion
The Unknown Soldier / int_64070096	comment	Cowardly Lion: All the characters fear death. Some just hide it better than the others, and some are able to act despite it more successfully.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
The Unknown Soldier / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Lieutenant Koskela, who destroys a tank with a satchel charge, but fails to survive. Also Captain Kariluoto, leading a counterattack to capture positions lost earlier.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
The Unknown Soldier / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: Private Salonen, who has a short appearance at the very beginning, but is mentioned next time only when he dies. His death makes bigger impression on the other characters, who are shocked by it.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
The Unknown Soldier / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: This time around they're your allies in an attempt to take on Russia. The main characters keep on following Nazi Germany's war success and rooting for their victory, as anything else will inevitably mean Finland's defeat.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Unknown Soldier / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: For all the hate Lammio gets from his men for his dislikable personality, most of the time Lammio is being reasonable and even in right. Such as, when he tells the men not to gather together during danger of enemy artillery fire, when he commands that the thieving from the till must end and the stolen goods must be returned, when he asks what would the utterly drunken half-platoon do now if there was an alarm, when he expects Rokka to obey simple orders like the others to not to loosen up the chains of command all around, and when he points out that he has been practically endlessly forgiving towards Rokka, in a way most other commanders wouldn't.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
The Unknown Soldier / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: The narrator enjoys his sarcasm to the fullest.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_6ec1393a	type	Mission Creep
The Unknown Soldier / int_6ec1393a	comment	Mission Creep: There's confusion and disagreement about what is the purpose of the war. As long as they're fighting to retake the land Finland unfairly lost to Soviet Union's aggression in the Winter War, the soldiers are excited and motivated. But when the attack continues on to Russian land, the men don't understand what they're still fighting and dying for. This problem turns acute at the end of the war when the soldiers can't muster motivation to fight anymore, and the Finnish fronts collapse at the face of the massive Soviet attack. Only when the front reaches Finnish soil again the soldiers too start to fight back seriously.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Unknown Soldier / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: The protagonists aren't good and the people they fight against aren't evil. They're all just humans, to varying degrees flawed, trying to survive. Likewise, the countries involved in the war - Finland and Soviet Union - can both be seen as the guilty one or the innocent one in the situation, or both at the same time, depending of what factors one chooses to remember or to ignore.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_73f8d546	type	Working-Class Hero
The Unknown Soldier / int_73f8d546	comment	Working-Class Hero: Majority of the cast, but not all. The Finnish society of the day was still very divided, and the social background of the characters is echoed in everything from their manner of speech to their worldview and attitudes.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
The Unknown Soldier / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: Sergeant Hietanen. He brings his own rationed food to the local Russian children orphaned by the war (and teaches them Finnish obscenities!)
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The Unknown Soldier / int_766de4dc	type	To Absent Friends
The Unknown Soldier / int_766de4dc	comment	To Absent Friends: Marshall Mannerheim's birthday party. The Military Moonshiner squad have prepared kilju and everyone gets dangerously drunk.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
The Unknown Soldier / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Mostly played straight. When the others find out that Lehto was left behind by Rahikainen, Vanhala and Sihvonen, it causes a bitter argument.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
The Unknown Soldier / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Happens to one of the newer privates on the last pages of the book. During a rain of fire he goes mad and tries to climb out of the trench. Määttä has to wrestle with the lunatic to save his life. As he is taken away blabbering nonsense, the artillery fire ends and the armistice between Finland and Soviet Union starts.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
The Unknown Soldier / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: Lehto, initially. However, it's implied they all soon drop down to his level. "Death ceased to be a moral issue".
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The Unknown Soldier / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
The Unknown Soldier / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: Both Rahikainen and Hietanen notice the handsome bosom of their object of special attention. And even when their size is not specified, breasts are frequently the thing about the female the men notice and long for. Kariluoto and Hietanen even have the sparkling joy of having gotten to accidentally slightly brush a breast of their special someone.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Unknown Soldier / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Rokka is once again ranting about the officers, how he doesn't get along with them and wonders, what's wrong with them for him and them always to start fighting after just a few words. Vanhala, amused, asks him has he ever considered the possibility that perhaps the fault is in Rokka himself. Rokka is bewildered by such a thought.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
The Unknown Soldier / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Sergeant Hietanen, whose flood of funny, quick, rhythmical Turku dialect spices up the dialogue and keeps others in good mood.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_8269c61	type	TheLadysFavor
The Unknown Soldier / int_8269c61	comment	The Lady's Favor: Subverted. Hietanen himself asks for a memento from Vera, knowing that they will probably never meet again (and they won't). Vera lets him take her membership pin of the Young Communist League. He puts it in his wallet and later on looks at it to recall her.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_82b1fd4f	type	WorldHalfFull
The Unknown Soldier / int_82b1fd4f	comment	World Half Full: Despite everything, the reason why the author is angry and the novel is full of bitterness, is because human life is worthy and beautiful, and its cessation is a tragedy.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_8344209e	type	BFG
The Unknown Soldier / int_8344209e	comment	Resulting in the poor characters having to carry their BFG across forests and marshes, under enemy fire and while hungry and exhausted. Near the end they're gleefully happy to get to throw their machine guns into a pond and become an ordinary rifle company.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Unknown Soldier / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Rokka's ambush on Soviet platoon is based on actual events, author toned the number of dead Soviets down. Rokka shoots 50 dead, his Real Life counterpart shot 83.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_863c780a	type	Hopeless Suitor
The Unknown Soldier / int_863c780a	comment	Hopeless Suitor: Hietanen too understands he could never get Vera. For one, he's in her eyes an enemy soldier, and even if it wasn't so, someone as beautiful, intelligent and cultured as her is leagues above his level.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Unknown Soldier / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: in the Real Life most Finnish deserters simply returned voluntarily back to their units once they had gotten rest and their minds sorted out. No further consequences ensued.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_881b90be	type	Bling of War
The Unknown Soldier / int_881b90be	comment	Bling of War: Averted. Men considered it rewards for deeds which would be crimes in civilian life.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_88472ef3	type	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
The Unknown Soldier / int_88472ef3	comment	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Kariluoto. He has a dire need to be part of something greater and to gain honor in achieving high, idealistic goals. So he ends up accepting the militaristic ideals of his era and social circles, but the reality of war makes him constantly waver in what to believe in and what to want. Ultimately he dies without answers to the problems of life, as confused and lost as he ever was.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
The Unknown Soldier / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: Mercilessly and hilariously deconstructed and reconstructed, to the disappointment of the more idealistic characters, who would not only want to be victorious, but to be victorious with style.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_88e5066d	type	Trigger-Happy
The Unknown Soldier / int_88e5066d	comment	Trigger-Happy: Private Asumaniemi. Where are those Russkies so I can kill them?. Also One is missing, said the Devil when he counted the fire ants.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_89283763	type	Insatiable Newlyweds
The Unknown Soldier / int_89283763	comment	Insatiable Newlyweds: Kariluoto and Sirkka. Kariluoto has black eye bags from how little sleep he got during his wedding leave.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_8abe13b6	type	It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
The Unknown Soldier / int_8abe13b6	comment	It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: At the beginning, the Finns are very optimistic about their chances of success, thanks to their alliance with Nazi Germany, which seems to be curbstomping the Soviets. Then the German advance halts and ultimately turns into a retreat... uh oh.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
The Unknown Soldier / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The narrator takes great pleasure in the fact that the Conscription army resembles this rather than the Elite Army it's told to be in propaganda.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_8c431fe4	type	Band of Brothers
The Unknown Soldier / int_8c431fe4	comment	Band of Brothers: The main characters whom the story follows.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_8cd097d1	type	River of Insanity
The Unknown Soldier / int_8cd097d1	comment	River of Insanity: The story has elements of this.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Unknown Soldier / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Private Korpela, who insults and yells at Lammio and is about to become a Dangerous Deserter, and soon gets killed in an artillery barrage.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
The Unknown Soldier / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Mäkilä is cut in half by a grenade when he tries to bring the men their food. The same grenade also kills the horse pulling the cart and the next one pours soil on them as if in a burial.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_9724d6fa	type	Call That a Formation?
The Unknown Soldier / int_9724d6fa	comment	Call That a Formation?: Finns are not really parade soldiers.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Unknown Soldier / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: The machine gun men later come up with many similarities between Karjula and Lehto, and conclude that Lehto would have been just like this, had he been a Staff Officer.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Unknown Soldier / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: The characters have encircled a lonely Soviet soldier into a thicket when to their dismay they hear him sobbing. Then a grenade goes off and they they find out that he blew himself up.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_9beeb7d6	type	Death by Ambulance
The Unknown Soldier / int_9beeb7d6	comment	Death by Ambulance: Double Subverted by Sergeant Hietanen's case. The ambulance carrying him to the field hospital gets ambushed and everyone inside are killed.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_9c6ba43a	type	Values Dissonance
The Unknown Soldier / int_9c6ba43a	comment	Values Dissonance: In-universe. The army is made up of people from all social classes and political and ideological backgrounds. Typically the rank and file come from the lower working classes, while the officers oftentimes come from middle or higher class. The values of the leadership, and indeed the values behind the motives for the war, often don't resonate with the men sent out to turn them into reality.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Unknown Soldier / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: With the bloated Ensemble Cast, nobody gets to keep the limelight all the time, but number of characters get to have their moment or moments. Kariluoto stands out, as he's not actually part of Koskela's platoon that the story is following, but who gets many scenes and sequences dedicated to him both at the beginning and near the end of the tale.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_9ce7c264	type	Future Badass
The Unknown Soldier / int_9ce7c264	comment	Future Badass: 2nd Lieutenant Kariluoto (Ensign Newbie), Private Asumaniemi (New Meat).
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The Unknown Soldier / int_9e062ca3	type	Suicide Mission
The Unknown Soldier / int_9e062ca3	comment	Suicide Mission: The nightly outflanking maneuvre which goes notoriously wrong.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
The Unknown Soldier / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: The soldiers constantly suspect that their higher ups are sending them to though spots to gain glory and promotions, and aren't particularly understanding of the mentality.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
The Unknown Soldier / int_9e622f84	comment	Stealing from the Till: Corporal Lehto and privates Määttä and Rahikainen. They get caught by Lieutenant Lammio, who sentences them to stand in attention for half an hour in full gear in sunshine. Unfortunately, an air raid occurs while they are doing their punishment...
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The Unknown Soldier / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
The Unknown Soldier / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Corporal Rokka.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a0ce7213	type	My Girl Back Home
The Unknown Soldier / int_a0ce7213	comment	My Girl Back Home: Rokka has his wife Lyyti and Kariluoto his fiance Sirkka. Kariluoto is completely heels-over-head in love with Sirkka and will go on and on and on about her to anyone who bothers to listen.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a0f6ab07	type	Nicknaming the Enemy
The Unknown Soldier / int_a0f6ab07	comment	Nicknaming the Enemy: Not only do the Finns call Russians as Russkies, Bush Russkies, Vanyas and the Neighbor, they get to find out how how Russians call them: Tshunas. Cue a scene where the Finns and their Russian prisoners stand in all friendship and laugh together at their nicknames. Vanhala even starts to call his friends with the Russian nickname for them.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a1b27125	type	Nervous Wreck
The Unknown Soldier / int_a1b27125	comment	Nervous Wreck: Private Sihvonen is nervous before, during and after action. At times it gets on other people's nerves (pun intended), as they're scared as well and others being jittery doesn't help them. Riitaoja is beyond this, he simply collapses mentally every time they're in battle situation.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
The Unknown Soldier / int_a1b76006	comment	Nerves of Steel: Rokka, Koskela and Lammio. Makes for all the greater effect if they too start to get nervous.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a1d927ea	type	Wingman
The Unknown Soldier / int_a1d927ea	comment	Wingman: Private Susi to Corporal Rokka. They were neighbours in the civilian life. Also Sergeant Hietanen to Lieutenant Koskela.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Unknown Soldier / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Hietanen has both of his eyes torn out by a shrapnel and gets blinded.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a3673c4c	type	It Gets Easier
The Unknown Soldier / int_a3673c4c	comment	It Gets Easier: Seeing your own fallen, getting up and acting while under fire, facing and causing death... yeah, it gets easier - by learning to not to think about it. Deep down the horror never really leaves.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a371a459	type	Fighting for a Homeland
The Unknown Soldier / int_a371a459	comment	Fighting for a Homeland: Those soldiers whose homes were lost to Soviet Union during the preceding Winter War are fighting to get them back.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Unknown Soldier / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Comic and horrific, beautiful and banal, enthusiastic and depressing frequently take over each other to create strong emotional contrasts.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Unknown Soldier / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Major Lammio, who survives the war. He never really does anything to deserve to die, though, unless having zero social skills and very annoying personality warrants death. The other characters hate him, sure, but at the end of the day, he always does his job to his best (very considerable) ability.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a733374b	type	Bomb Whistle
The Unknown Soldier / int_a733374b	comment	Bomb Whistle: Discussed Trope. Sergeant Hietanen criticizes All Quiet on the Western Front for claiming you can hear from the whistle which grenades are dangerous and which aren't.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Unknown Soldier / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: The true and tested method of throwing shade on war propaganda and rebelling against the officers. Honkajoki excels in this.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
The Unknown Soldier / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: How Hietanen meets Vera. The day after Petrozavodsk is occupied by the Finns, Hietanen is investigating the houses with rifle in hand, when all of the sudden he walks upon Vera, who is looking at his pointed rifle with her beautiful eyes. Vera brings this memory up later on, to Hietanen's embarrassment.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a839608e	type	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
The Unknown Soldier / int_a839608e	comment	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines: The character's worst fear. They're in danger of falling to it twice in the novel, and literally fight for their lives, with no further motivation needed.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
The Unknown Soldier / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Corporal Lehto intentionally keeps everyone distant from himself, as he doesn't want to form any emotional bonds. The others sense there's something dark and sinister about him, and some are even scared of him. However, they do respect and trust him as an efficient soldier.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a863ef67	type	Cultured Warrior
The Unknown Soldier / int_a863ef67	comment	Cultured Warrior: Major Sarastie is aspiring to be one, though oftentimes it's more of a role to play than reflection of his actual, more down-to-earth thoughts.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_a922f8de	type	To Be Lawful or Good
The Unknown Soldier / int_a922f8de	comment	To Be Lawful or Good: Frequent dilemma, especially for the officers.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_accd97de	type	Actionized Adaptation
The Unknown Soldier / int_accd97de	comment	Actionized Adaptation: The 2017 film significantly cuts down on the Slow-Paced Beginning of the book and the two film adaptations and focuses more on the action sequences significantly more.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Unknown Soldier / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Sergeant Hietanen. Others get their moments too, especially corporal Lahtinen.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Unknown Soldier / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Happens to Corporal Lehto, who gets a hit on his spine and is paralyzed from chest down in the night outflank maneuvre. He decides to eat his gun.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Unknown Soldier / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: The characters have only a brief discussion about the morality and justification of war, and that too only in the beginning of it. They quickly learn to not to think about such things and just assume that the higher ups know what they ask. Hietanen even thinks to himself that the state and its priests will sort out the question of his potential sins with God.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
The Unknown Soldier / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: Almost all officers get promoted at least once. Lammio finishes the war as Major. Many of the enlisted men are also promoted on the field.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_b3a49cdb	type	Satire
The Unknown Soldier / int_b3a49cdb	comment	Satire: Honkajoki is a walking, talking personification of satire. His shtick is to take the war propaganda comically seriously, as if he believed it fully, and repeat it with the most absurd sentences ever heard in the Finnish language. The cake is his bizarre version of reading a vesper.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_b6060b7	type	Run or Die
The Unknown Soldier / int_b6060b7	comment	Run or Die: The characters increasingly have to face this choice, and ultimately get used to running with no shame. They only abandon any thought of running when they return back to Finnish soil.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_b7248073	type	My Country, Right or Wrong
The Unknown Soldier / int_b7248073	comment	My Country, Right or Wrong: Most characters have at least a seed of love for their home country living within themselves, no matter how much they might mock the patriotic drivel thrown at them, and so they do what is asked of them, and the looming defeat genuinely hurts them.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_b75d9ce5	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Unknown Soldier / int_b75d9ce5	comment	Sliding Scaleof Idealism Versus Cynicism: The story is basically the high styled, nationalistic patriotic ideology of the 1930s meeting the reality of war and dying a slow, whimpering death in the process. However, the story does have human heart - at its core is empathy and pity for human beings, with all their flaws and follies. Author mocks all idealism that is distanced from and alien to everyday common life, but approves of the malleable practical morality that rises from genuine humanity.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
The Unknown Soldier / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Completely averted by both Finns and Soviets, both in book and in Real Life.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
The Unknown Soldier / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: Lieutenant Lammio is nominated as the company leader after death of Captain Kaarna.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
The Unknown Soldier / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: Private, later Lance Corporal and even later Corporal Vanhala. He is one of the most well-loved characters. Notable, the other members of the platoon recognize how they need Vanhala's comedic relief in their lives.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
The Unknown Soldier / int_bd0d6395	comment	Captain Lammio is a strict martinet with No Social Skills and an ego the size of a small nation. He is also an insanely brave soldier and efficient leader, but his complete lack of weaknesses along with his other traits does nothing to endear him to the rank-and-file.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
The Unknown Soldier / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Lieutenant Koskela, and in general all the reserve officers who served in the Winter War. Rokka becomes a living legend among the rest of the battalion, too.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Unknown Soldier / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: A whole bunch, along with some subversions. Staff Sergeant Sinkkonen is a loudmouthed martinet, and a barrack-room Ranger of the first degree. Captain Lammio is a strict martinet with No Social Skills and an ego the size of a small nation. He is also an insanely brave soldier and efficient leader, but his complete lack of weaknesses along with his other traits does nothing to endear him to the rank-and-file. Corporal Lehto is also brave and competent, but he is anti-social, vaguely psychotic and bullies everyone he thinks he can get away with bullying mercilessly. His men follow him because he frightens them more than the Russians do.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Unknown Soldier / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Rokka and his wife Lyyti.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_becbd1d4	type	Jungle Warfare
The Unknown Soldier / int_becbd1d4	comment	Jungle Warfare: Much of the fighting takes place in the wilderness; in the primeval forests and marshes. Apart from the Scenery Porn, it serves to make the experience all the more miserable and uncomfortable for the soldiers.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
The Unknown Soldier / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Rahikainen. His companions aren't jealous at all, only delighted and amused by the descriptions of his adventures.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
The Unknown Soldier / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: The company gets them regularly. They grow up into decent soldiers pretty quickly, or failing that, get killed just as quickly.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_c09dddd9	type	Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness
The Unknown Soldier / int_c09dddd9	comment	Sliding Scaleof Antagonist Vileness: The Soviets are seen as Punch-Clock Villains or Slave Mooks (they were conscripts), and the only really hated enemy was Stalin.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_c18c22e8	type	Colonel Kilgore
The Unknown Soldier / int_c18c22e8	comment	Colonel Kilgore: Lieutenant Colonel Karjula.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_c271fe08	type	Machiavelli Was Wrong
The Unknown Soldier / int_c271fe08	comment	Machiavelli Was Wrong: People don't obey out of fear, they obey out of trust and respect.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Unknown Soldier / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Camaraderie helps The Squad pull through the hell they're sent to inhabit.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_c35cddcd	type	I Control My Minions Through...
The Unknown Soldier / int_c35cddcd	comment	I Control My Minions Through......: Fear, by Corporal Lehto. Lieutenant Colonel Karjula tries it, unsuccessfully, as the men fear the enemy more than him.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_c86a6f38	type	Cannon Fodder
The Unknown Soldier / int_c86a6f38	comment	Cannon Fodder: The Soviets. In Real Life their losses were horrendous, and not solely for their use of the Zerg Rush tactic either.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
The Unknown Soldier / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: The men assume that the Lottas are all "field whores" of the officers and constantly use the name whore of them, decidedly in a negative sense. When the Lotta character Raili Kotilainen does indeed get involved in multiple sexual relationships with the officers, she is almost universally condemned for being a fallen woman. Her final humiliation is to be refused help by Korpela who calls her manure that he's not willing to drive around in his cart on a Sunday. Men themselves are never expected to have any limits to their sexual relations, in the opposite the men talk about sex all the time and fantasize about loose relations with women, and if someone is or is assumed to be sexually inexperienced, it's a source of Virgin-Shaming.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_ca895242	type	Officer and a Gentleman
The Unknown Soldier / int_ca895242	comment	Officer and a Gentleman: 2nd Lieutenant Kariluoto grows into one. His death as Captain, commanding the company in a counterattack, is one of the saddest scenes of the book.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
The Unknown Soldier / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: The army is stressed by constant internal distrust and disrespect between the rank and file and the officers. This is caused by deeper social and political divides within the contemporary Finnish society. However, at the end of the day, almost everyone does what is asked of them.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_cbf9d0fe	type	Sour Supporter
The Unknown Soldier / int_cbf9d0fe	comment	Sour Supporter: Corporal Lahtinen is a communist and not happy at all about this war against the Soviet Union, or his participation in it. He frequently gives political lectures to the other squad members, none of whom take it seriously. And yet, at the same time Lahtinen not only obeys but takes his job seriously and does more than is asked.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_ccbb4ff1	type	Combat and Support
The Unknown Soldier / int_ccbb4ff1	comment	Combat and Support: The rifle platoons and the machine gun squads work this way. A platoon of riflemen attack the enemy, and a squad or two of machine gun men gives them support fire. The main cast belongs to Koskela's machine gun platoon, to its first and second squads, and their role in fighting is to support Kariluoto's platoon of riflemen.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_cd427ce1	type	A Man Is Always Eager
The Unknown Soldier / int_cd427ce1	comment	A Man Is Always Eager: Assumed as truth by many of the characters, especially those of more lower social and educational status. However, not all of the male characters are constantly horny or pervy, it's more of a widespread attitude about gender roles.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
The Unknown Soldier / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: We only encounter Soviet tanks, and they're a source of terror among the Finns.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_ce60aef3	type	Heroic Resolve
The Unknown Soldier / int_ce60aef3	comment	Heroic Resolve: Private Salo, who attempts to shoot down an Il-2 Shturmovik with his service rifle. He gets wounded and loses his leg. Even though, this isn't meant to be simply a straightforwardly heroic thing to do. Salo has through the story wanted to be braver than he is, only to be put down and mocked by the others. Now he uses this opportunity to shine, even if it means unreasonably and pointlessly exposing himself to mortal danger. But it works - the other characters are so impressed with his bravery that their entire memories of him are changed, and even though they never see him again, from then on they remember him as a brave man.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
The Unknown Soldier / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: Corporal Lehto, due to his Start of Darkness involving an abusive alcoholic father, becoming The Runaway and living as a Street Urchin. He's determined to Never Be Hurt Again and thus avoids all humans and humanity, as well as hope that his life could ever change.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_d339924e	type	Camp Cook
The Unknown Soldier / int_d339924e	comment	Camp Cook: Corporal Mäkilä. He does his best to keep everyone fed, but the army is making the men survive with way too little nutrition, not to mention that the little food they get at best tastes bland, at worst is near inedible. Poor Mäkilä has to receive the complaints of this fact that in no way is his fault.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_d355ba37	type	Turned Against Their Masters
The Unknown Soldier / int_d355ba37	comment	Turned Against Their Masters: Invoked only to be constantly turned down. The soldiers complain against every command, question the war and curse the higher ups. But as the narrator remarks, while to the outsider it might seem that the army is on the verge of The Mutiny, they still keep obeying loyally, save for isolated cases of disobedience.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_d46f812	type	Tastes Like Friendship
The Unknown Soldier / int_d46f812	comment	Tastes Like Friendship: Finding, sharing and eating food is one of the greatest interests of the characters, and an essential part of their social life. They also share their food with Russian prisoners.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_d69c3cdc	type	Permission to Speak Freely
The Unknown Soldier / int_d69c3cdc	comment	Permission to Speak Freely: Koskela's men have a permanent permission to say whatever they want, as Koskela knows that this helps them to deal with their stress. It's better not to try it with other officers, though.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_d99d9918	type	The Captain
The Unknown Soldier / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain: Lieutenant Kariluoto and Lieutenant Koskela. Also 2nd Lieutenant Jalovaara at the final chapter.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
The Unknown Soldier / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Rokka, Susi and others, whose homes were in lands conquered and annexed by the Soviet Union.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_db911ee	type	Field Promotion
The Unknown Soldier / int_db911ee	comment	Field Promotion: Happens to several of the protagonists, due to Anyone Can Die.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_dc1b3fb6	type	Real Men Hate Affection
The Unknown Soldier / int_dc1b3fb6	comment	Real Men Hate Affection: Sergeant Hietanen falls in love with a Russian woman he meets in an occupied city. When he realizes the others are making fun of the seriousness and tenderness of his feelings, he, irritated, tries to downplay it himself and pretend it's nothing serious for him.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Unknown Soldier / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Captain Kaarna who, unfortunately, gets killed early in the war and is replaced by Lieutenant Lammio, who is a cocky martinet. Also Lieutenant Koskela. 2nd Lieutenant Jalovaara becomes one.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_dd050410	type	Defeat Means Respect
The Unknown Soldier / int_dd050410	comment	Defeat Means Respect: After being taught for years to despise and belittle the Russians as inferiors in every way, witnessing their skill, bravery and ultimately the material superiority of the Soviets first hand turns the Finnish soldiers into respecting them as opponents. At the end of the war this turns into Defeat Means Friendship, as Finland established friendly relations with Soviet Union.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Unknown Soldier / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Two years or so into the war the soldiers start to suspect that the war will be lost. Others hold onto to hope of final victory longer than the others, but each must at some point come to face the reality and accept that there's no hope left.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_ddb8ba26	type	Shot at Dawn
The Unknown Soldier / int_ddb8ba26	comment	Shot at Dawn: Two privates of the same battalion, for disobedience and defying their orders. It's intended to rise the moral among the troops, but has the polar opposite effect. The men consider it murder and loose all their respect and trust for the high command.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
The Unknown Soldier / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Whenever a female appears on scene... and when they're absent, the men still gaze them in their imagination.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_e061d153	type	Sergeant Rock
The Unknown Soldier / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: Sergeant Hietanen. Also Corporal Rokka to newbie 2nd Lieutenant Kariluoto.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_e0e8cce6	type	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
The Unknown Soldier / int_e0e8cce6	comment	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Anyone harboring idealism will have to learn the better of it through the blood from their nose.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
The Unknown Soldier / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: A sign of a good officer is to know when the tactic used isn't working. In the end, the whole country decides it's time to fold it and seek peace with Soviet Union.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_e277967	type	What Is Evil?
The Unknown Soldier / int_e277967	comment	What Is Evil?: The morality behind war is once discussed by the main characters, early into the war, when Lehto shoots an unarmed and helpless prisoner. Hietanen argues that there should be some rules of honor , while Lahtinen claims that war is in itself so insane there's no point in trying to make it even more insane with some kind of pretentious etiquette. They come to no conclusion and afterwards stop caring about such questions.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
The Unknown Soldier / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: By rule the characters call each other by their surname, even if they were close companions who have fought side by side for years. The cases of First-Name Basis therefore stand out as signs of special closeness. Koskela is called Ville sometimes by his men and always by Kariluoto, and Rokka and Susi call each other Antti and Tassu respectively.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Private Salo is characterized by his naivety and tendency to believe nonsense. He genuinely believes in war propaganda and the idealistic drivel thrown at them. He also takes very seriously the National Stereotypes about his own home region as the home of brave heroic warriors. He believes whatever the prisoners of war or the local civilians tell them to get their way. The others mercilessly mock him for his naivety.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_e313b4e7	comment	Sergeant Hietanen grows up from a carefree Manchild to a serious and even brooding man that can be counted on.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_e3315e75	comment	Scoundrel Code: As the men grow more and more demoralized, they become increasingly accepting of things like thieving even from your own dead. But one last rule stands till the end: food must be shared. They all know hunger so well they don't have the heart to deny their own small supplies from those who ask to get to share them.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_e3a7d2e6	type	Karmic Jackpot
The Unknown Soldier / int_e3a7d2e6	comment	Karmic Jackpot: Subverted by Corporal Lehto, who suffers one of the nastiest fates in the book. He gets wounded in action and paralyzed from chest down, and he shoots himself with his service rifle. Lieutenant Koskela says later: It was good it happened to Lehto. He was the best of us to suffer that kind of a fate.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Purposefully averted by the author, with only a few small exceptions here and there. Linna wanted to make the reader to emphasize with the characters as if they were real people and thus feel sadness when they die, instead of trying to "shock" the reader by brutal descriptions of what happens to their bodies. As he said, important is what is dying, not how it's dying.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Lammio. The characters don't hate their enemy. Instead, the character of Lammio ends up being at the receiving end of all their bitterness. Word of God acknowledges that Lammio only did everything for what he perceived to be the good of the men, but that they couldn't understand it.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_e68b72	type	The Load
The Unknown Soldier / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: Riitaoja is not only incapable of performing his tasks, but he needs to be dragged along like a child. However, the others sympathize with his fear and weakness and treat him with kindness. Other than Lehto, of course.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_e9f79e23	type	Screw the War, We're Partying
The Unknown Soldier / int_e9f79e23	comment	Screw the War, We're Partying: Capture of Petrozavodsk and plunder of the liquor factory, ase well as Field Marshal Mannerheim's birthday.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_eb682304	type	Wartime Wedding
The Unknown Soldier / int_eb682304	comment	Wartime Wedding: Captain Kariluoto finally marries his beloved Sirkka. He's so occupied this that the news of constant losses fly over his blissfully happy head, until the moment he returns back to the front and it all hits him in the face.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Unknown Soldier / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Private Korpela in his short appearance shows not even the slightest respect for other humans... but he does care for the horses trapped in the fight.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_ec212e4d	type	Ensemble Cast
The Unknown Soldier / int_ec212e4d	comment	Ensemble Cast: Trying to identify the main character is impossible, as there isn't one. Instead there are a number of central characters, who take turns in being in the focus.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
The Unknown Soldier / int_ed05cfee	comment	Naïve Newcomer: Private Hauhia. Soviet sniper kills him.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
The Unknown Soldier / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: Lieutenant Koskela, who has to take charge of the battalion when all the higher officers get killed in the Soviet summer offensive 1944. The same happened to him already in the Winter War when he was Sergeant.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
The Unknown Soldier / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: One by one, the Band of Brothers grows smaller and smaller...
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The Unknown Soldier / int_eddb470c	type	Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?
The Unknown Soldier / int_eddb470c	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?: As bragging about their sexual feats is a popular past time activity, the soldiers end up making themselves bigger Don Juans than they actually are.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_ee9a54a0	type	Sitting Duck
The Unknown Soldier / int_ee9a54a0	comment	Sitting Duck: New Meat Private Hauhia to a Soviet sniper.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Unknown Soldier / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Played straight. The Unknown Soldier is praised for its strict realism.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_f243e0a7	type	Dangerous Deserter
The Unknown Soldier / int_f243e0a7	comment	Dangerous Deserter: Subverted. The Russian deserters in Petrozavodsk cause no problem and indeed the Finnish soldiers have nothing against them, as they too would want nothing better than go back home. Later on during the chaotic retreat many Finns become deserters themselves. Koskela is of the opinion that they're not a problem for the army at least, as the men who become deserters are so mentally and physically tired they'd be of no use in fighting anyway. Truth in Television: in the Real Life most Finnish deserters simply returned voluntarily back to their units once they had gotten rest and their minds sorted out. No further consequences ensued.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_f51c5f3c	type	Never Say "Die"
The Unknown Soldier / int_f51c5f3c	comment	Never Say "Die": In-universe, the soldiers dislike talking about death and try to avoid it as a topic. Instead they banter about funny and exciting things, such as women.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Unknown Soldier / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics won, and the second to finish was small but tenacious Finland, says Corporal Vanhala at the last page of the book. Finland managed to maintain her independence and freedom. Additionally, most of the surviving characters at the end of the book survived the war as field promoted non-commissioned officers, such as Vanhala, who began as Private.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
The Unknown Soldier / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Lehto and Riitaoja. After spending their story arc being in constant conflict, they die at the same time and place. Others lay their bodies next to each other and cover them with their great coats, and then carry on, leaving them to lay peacefully side by side in the autumnal forest.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: Private Riitaoja, who gets separated from his squad in the night outflank maneuver, and gets machine-gunned by the Soviets from behind. Also corporal Lehto, who gets left behind after being mortally wounded and falls down just in front of the enemy positions, so that bringing him back would be impossible. The narrator and the other characters note how the loneliness of this death makes it all the more horrible.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_f76f8943	type	Bruiser with a Soft Center
The Unknown Soldier / int_f76f8943	comment	Bruiser with a Soft Center: Sergeant Hietanen is strong, brave and badass... and emotional and tender. He not only feels acutely for the prisoners, the children and the civilians, and not only has genuine romantic feelings for women instead of the usual lecherous bragging about conquered women, but he also speaks constantly and openly about his feelings, about his fears and his hopes and his joys.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: At the very end of the war, after receiving a brutal Curb-Stomp Battle beating from the advancing Soviets, when the Finns reach Finnish soil again, they finally stop their semi-panicked retreat and without a word of command decide to stand their ground. The Soviet assault is successfully stopped there.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: During the retreat phase the battalion comes close to being entirely destroyed. The Soviets outflank it and cut it off from their own forces, the battalion leader dies, the counter attack attempting to open the route back to their own fails and the new battalion leader dies in the attempt, the battalion is almost closed in a cauldron and its remnant only manages to save itself through a dangerous outflanking maneuver through the marshes... once they get back to their own side of the front line, they're forced to engage the enemy again, only to have their leader die again and everyone fall into a chaotic panicked escape. It's said the battalion perhaps would have fallen apart altogether if the fleeing men hadn't reached the Finnish soil again and regained their fighting spirit. Three of the four most central characters die during this sequence of events.
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The Unknown Soldier / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: Among all the death, suffering, fear and bitterness there's plenty of life, and surprisingly often the reader finds himself laughing teary eyed at the cheeky banter of the characters. They need to find a way to cope with the misery of their situation, and doing so they help to prevent the reader from phasing out.
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