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The relevant parts: "As the epidemic raged in late August, when around 20 people were dying daily, the city’s bank director Carl Lignell withdrew funds from St
by zurn 7y ago
The relevant parts:
"As the epidemic raged in late August, when around 20 people were dying daily, the city’s bank director Carl Lignell withdrew funds from Stockholm without authorisation and requisitioned a school for use as a hospital (the city didn’t have one). "
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"“What is interesting is that, after the epidemic, the state dropped investigations against Lignell and made tentative steps towards a cooperative approach to social reform. Issues such as poor nutrition and housing were on the political agenda,” says Hedlund. Anyone trying to date the inception of Sweden’s welfare state cannot overlook the events of autumn 1918."
You can argue about the causality but it's not clickbait in the sense that it interviews a local expert who is making a case that it was a significant factor.
- roenxi 7y agoThere is a short but rather tumultuous time between 1918 and 2020 where a few minor things happened like the rise of communism, the widespread use of oil and the EU. The article establishes that people cared about poor people in 1918 and in 2020. The article is evidence, theory and anecdote lite about the links. The October Revolution was in 1917. I bet that was more influential than the Spanish Flu. Communism was fresh, young and not been discredited and exposed as an ideology of bloodthirsty monsters. I'd pick that as a genesis point.
- nkozyra 7y ago> ideology of bloodthirsty monsters I'm not sure this is a fair reading of history.
- pjc50 7y agoMore that one should ask "which one?" - in 1918 the ideology of bloodthirsty monsters was whatever was responsible for the war. Monarchial nationalism? Colonialism? Leopold II of Belgium was almost as much of a mass murderer as Stalin.