Even from beyond the grave, Fascists are still massacring people & inhibiting scientific research

Quoting Oula Seitsonen & Vesa-Pekka Herva’s Forgotten in the Wilderness: WWII German PoW Camps in Finnish Lapland in Archaeologies of Internment, page 177:

This Lapland War (as it would come to be known) resulted in a comparatively small number of casualties—both sides lost about 1,000 men killed and 3,000 wounded. Material losses were enormous. The [Fascists] destroyed not only their former bases and camps, but also burned down every Finnish village within their reach, in total some 16,000 buildings. Over 1,000 road bridges, some 100 railroad bridges and 40 ferries were blown up; 170 km of railroad, 9,500 km of road and almost 3,000 culverts were destroyed; and most electricity poles cut down. Tens of thousands of head of cattle and reindeers were killed, and over 130,000 landmines and other explosives planted in the landscape. In the years after the end of the war, these mines would kill about 2,000 people. Unexploded ordnance is still found in Lapland, and it remains a potential threat for archaeological studies of military sites.

(Emphasis added. See also: Chemical weapons in Germany and how they’re still harming people.)

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Fascists are well known for their love of trying to burn as much as they can before their inevitable defeat. Don't forget that nearly 1/3 of the entire country of Angola is uninhabitable and unsalvageable due to the extreme number of mines laid by NATO and South African forces. Many of those mines didn't even serve a tactical purpose as they were specifically dropped in farmlands, forestry areas, around mineral mines, and along the coast for the simple reason of attempting to cripple Angola for as long as possible after the South African defeat.
- The situation is similar in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic today:
  Overall, some 2 million tons of bombs were dropped on Laos. These raids wiped out 353 villages and killed thousands of civilians, and they continue to kill now, as the Plain was saturated with hundreds of millions of “bombies”-tiny antipersonnel weapons specifically designed to kill and maim. With their 20-to-30 percent failure-to-explode rate, they remained as potential killers, and their casualty rate is still high, estimates running from hundreds to 20,000 or more per year, half of them deaths and half of the victims children.
  (Source.)
  MAG removed the LPDR’s 300,000th bomb yesteryear, and they’re still far from done. Needless to say, you won’t find too many anticommunists discussing this, let alone mentioning anticommunism’s relevance to it. (At best, they’ll briefly say that maybe they made a few little oopsies back then, then immediately forget about it.)
  
  Makes one wonder what the yanks will do if their rulers accept they have no way back to the top