Wow, you are starting to write like I think and often write!!
Ilmarinen has obviously been around for hundreds of centuries and milleniums and many, many more moons, and will so continue, as he engineered a lot of stuff already as a young boy, and more as an adult, including the heavens. moneymachines and the original antenna.
The italians obviously arrived through some of the great rivers connecting south Italy with the Great Ladoga, for more details, watch Discovery Channel and "tails of the underwater spagetti navy", also the continuing story of the creation of the great german- italian-finnish navy of Lake Ladoga (btw, most russians did not know how to neither swim nor row, as it takes some local practicing and water for both)
Finns have always, and still do, admire the heroic struggle of Leningrad and its population, we were prepared to do the same, although in smaller scale, but avoided that.
Another reason we did not try to cut them off, and another reason Stalin was so militarily happy with us, although obviously still realistic about modern weapons and their range.
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