Summary
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.
Ooh, didn’t know that, kinda cool!
Does that mean Sweden is at the very end of countries by alphabetical order in Dutch?
I won’t deny that I felt it might have been some joke about Sweden, not sure what. I did think about Russia painting white Z’s on some military vehicles but never heard any conspiracy or idea that Sweden is in their pockets or anything like that. And just to be clear, it was nothing more than a quick random thought based on nothing that I put no weight on whatsoever.
Nope, second to last! Zwitserland is the last one!
Edit: and I just learned Switzerland officially doesn’t have a capital city :)
And I found out about more awesome stuff about Switzerland here
Edit edit: oh and the Z on the Russian vehicles is because it’s a letter which doesn’t exist in the Cyrillic alphabet, as well as all the other letters or signs painted on military vehicles during the invasion of Ukraine. It represented the area where the vehicle came from, to prevent blue on blue engagement. The largest group of the invasion was marked with a Z so it became a national symbol in support of the war.
Or from our perspective: the new swastika.