Sweden as a country has a history with extremism, 'Nordic' nationalism and national-socialism, this includes nearly all parties from all sides. The social democ

Sweden as a country has a history with extremism, 'Nordic' nationalism and national-socialism, this includes nearly all parties from all sides. The social democrats (S) were in cahoots with the nazi-regime in Germany in the second world war and agreed with parts of their ideology. That this started long before before the war is clear when looking at e.g. the founding date of the Swedish State Institute for Racial Biology by a social democrat and a farmers union leader in 1922 [1]. It was on a proposal from Sweden and Switzerland that nazi-Germany started stamping passports with a red "J" to indicate that the carrier was considered to be Jewish, the stated reason being that this made it easier to refuse those people access to those countries. These nationalist and extremist tendencies did not die with the end of Nazism either. The social democrats also have a murky past when it comes to relations with e.g. the DDR (German Democratic Republic, i.e. eastern-Germany) and other communist regimes. With the rise of Olof Palme and his followers the social democrats, and with that Sweden turned away from Nordic nationalism and instead went the diametrically opposite direction - another example of the Swedish tendency to go for extremes. Palme was impressed by what he considered to be the "success" of the DDR and spoke in praise of their "successes" without any mention of the way they treated those who did not follow the party line. He also admired Fidel Castro's Cuba and other similar countries. This fascination with political extremes continues to this day, an example of which is the left-wing "Researchgruppen" (research group). This is a left-wing NGO intelligence service which proudly considers itself to be "the Swedish Stasi" [2]. Like the original Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, the east-German intelligence service which kept records on millions of people and had informants spread throughout the population) they keep a database of people with 'dissenting' political views, most of the contents of which comes from burglary. This "research group" works together with the left-wing magazine "Expo" which had and has several prominent social democrats in their leadership. In the second world war Sweden used the motto "en svensk tiger" (which means both "a Swedish tiger" and "a swede keeps silent") to remind the populace to secrecy. This term can equally well be applied to the attitude within the social democratic party and for that matter the communist/'left' party which has a history of its own worth revealing. Swedish social democrats like to see themselves as shining beacons of solidarity and openness. They'd do well to do some research into their past to try to avoid past mistakes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statens_institut_f%C3%B6r_rasbiologi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statens_institut_f%C3%B6r_rasb... [2] https://www.dagenssamhalle.se/sites/default/files/archiveimages/tweet.jpg https://www.dagenssamhalle.se/sites/default/files/archiveima... [*] https://www.dagenssamhalle.se/nyhet/granskare-som-inte-tal-en-granskning-14461 https://www.dagenssamhalle.se/nyhet/granskare-som-inte-tal-e... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_svensk_tiger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_svensk_tiger