Kalsi's Kalevala

My review of "Corrosion" by Johan Kalsi.

I don't understand all the conflicts surrounding this book. Johan Kalsi exists. He is a real person. In fact, this 200-pound Finnish elite ranger is a personal friend of mine. He has the strength of Ilmarinen, the bright intellect of Väinamöinen and the political acumen of Mannerheim himself. On his forehead, he wears a tattoo of the Sampo. When I last met Commander Kalsi, at a get-together of Karelian war veterans, he pointed eastward and said: “The Ural Mountains form the natural borders of Greater Finland!” I believe this novel is an allegory of what Uralic omni-nationalists will do when the Russian empire finally corrodes.