Editing Mo i Rana (section)

==="Graveyard War" in 1951===
During the autumn of 1951, around "700 or 800" protesters showed up at the local graveyard as a result of a "night-time mobilisation"<ref name="Mobilization">{{Cite news |date=4 July 2013 |title=60 års taushet og tristesse |work=Dagbladet |url=http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/07/04/kultur/meninger/hovedkronikk/kronikk/krigsfanger/28032175/}}</ref> to oppose the government's attempt to remove Soviet corpses from graves. Some 93,000 Soviet prisoners-of-war had been brought to Norway between 1941 and 1945 by the Germans to work on improvements to infrastructure in Norway. A 2013 article in ''[[Dagbladet]]'' noted that "the protests were so powerful that [then minister of defence] [[Jens Chr. Hauge]] personally stopped the [government's] action".<ref name="Mobilization" />

It was only in this locality the government's Operation Asphalt stopped by civilians. More than 8000 Soviet corpses were removed from other graveyards in Northern Norway although the government had not decided the location of a new graveyard for these corpses.<ref name="Mobilization" /> The protests in Mo i Rana were not mentioned in national media during the [[Cold War]].