1. Sociological backgroundBefore WW2, Sweden was one of the poorest, most backward countries in W. Europe. The moneyed elite told the population what to think and do.After WW2, things changed dramatically in terms of national welfare, but the moneyed elite were replaced by a series of dogmatic left-leaning Social Democratic governments. The concept of looking […]
Monthly archives: December 2005
Totalitarian control of the media in Sweden
Stalin’s totalitarian heritage is alive and well – in Sweden. On Wednesday 14 December 2005 the Jerusalem Post broke the remarkable story that the Speaker of the Swedish Parliament, Björn von Sydow, had announced that all bilateral interparliamentary contacts with the Iranian Parliament had been cut the previous day. This was in the wake of […]