How Sweden has kept communism at bay
From our UK edition
Stay-behind cells in the second world war and the Cold War are familiar to students of intelligence and military history. These were groups of men who, during an invasion, would hide in concealed bunkers from which they would clandestinely emerge to report on enemy positions, possibly also to sabotage them. There are still an unknown number of such hides, neglected and forgotten, in Kent and Sussex woodlands. During the Cold War, units of the British Army were tasked with occupying similar hides on the continent. None was expected to survive for long. It is less well known that neutral Sweden had a similar organisation.
