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Sweden’s burial associations are seeking land to prepare for potential mass wartime burials, prompting new crisis readiness guidelines following the country’s decision to join NATO amid rising tensions with Russia.

In Gothenburg, officials aim to acquire 10 acres for emergency burials and 15 acres for regular cemetery use.

Sweden’s neutrality ended after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, prompting civil defense measures and NATO membership.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      6 days ago

      Bodies go in the back of the truck, heat is applied, ashes come out. Ashes are then scattered and in the case of Russia, the men are forgotten and declared MIA.

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        5 days ago

        (damn that’s grim) Ah, the honorable war hero treatment.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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          5 days ago

          You can’t go handing out Ladas so easily, some people already had to get a lot of Cheetos instead.

          Life is a joke.