Did anyone get two copies ? I love the civ franchise but I can ' t afford it at its retail price Someone help ! <| sep |> Viipuri was a perfect staging point for an attack on Leningrad and the Kola peninsula could easily be cut of . If Kola falls Arkhangelsk is bottled in . Thus if Finland allied with the USSRs enemies and was used as a staging point by them all of its western ports , including its second most important city , would be very vulnerable . So from a strategic perspective it made a lot of sense to secure greater strategic depth . Likewise Norwegian military planers understand that Russia today may have interests in Eastern Finnmark in Norway as it would give them greater strategic depth around Arkhangelsk .