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Monument to the artillery of the 2nd Heavy artdiviziona

There are 25 families, mostly Swedish (Swedish Finns). The monument was established by victims' families from the village Larsmo, Vaasa province in 1993. The remains of the dugout are visible just behind the monument. There are a lot of trenches and artillery positions around the site with fresh signs of excavation. A lot of rusty iron - shells, empty cages, rotten boots ...
February 13, 1940, Soviet tanks had broken through Finnish defence Finnish artillerymen, which had no anti-tank weapons, fled, but 30 people were blocked in the dugout. Only one survived after all...

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