So we might see Polish interpretations of Swedish plans? No wonder I could never follow the assembly instructions!
As Raketenjagdpanzer said, medical waste was a target for intelligence gathering. The book Brixmis, by Steve Gibson, explains how British personnel in East Germany would regularly conduct Operation Tomahawk, a nigh-time trawl through the garbage dumps outside Soviet and East German camps. They would collect anything that had value, from training manuals that were reused as TP (in short supply to the WarPac troops based there) to medical waste from casualties returned from Afghanistan. This book, plus Tony Geraghty's similar one, are great reading for a little known aspect of the cold war.
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