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When was Olof Palme born?

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1928

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What was the circumstances of Olof Palme’s death?

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He was shot in the back after visiting the theater without bodyguards

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Who was Palme’s wife?

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Lisbet-Beck Friis, a noblewoman and fellow socialist

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Who was suspected of killing Palme?

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Christer Petterson

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Who succeeded Palme?

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Social democrat Ingvar Carlsson

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Who was Palme’s mentor?

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Tage Erlander

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Who was Palme’s Deputy Minister?

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Ingvar Carlsson

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How did Palme meet Tage Erlander?

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He met him on the train. Erlander invited Palme to lunch, where he was impressed by Palme’s administrative abilities and command of foreign languages. Later, Palme met with Erlander to request government funding for a national student parliament.

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What happened to Palme’s house?

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It is now the Romanian embassy in Sweden

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What did Palme’s father do?

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He directed a life insurance company

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Where did Palme study?

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Kenyon College in Ohio

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What did the Swedish right think of Palme’s wealth?

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They essentially saw him as a class traitor. A talented and elite man who turned tail and became a committed socialist.

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What did Sweden do in the Cold War?

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Claimed neutrality but worked extensively with the US and NATO, and were prepared in case of Soviet aggression. Sweden secretly worked militarily with the United States and developed weapons.

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What was Erlander’s personality like?

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Cheerful and energetic

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Who was Ernst Wigforss?

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Swedish finance minister and influential administrator in the creation of the Swedish welfare state

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Who were the architects of the Folkhemmet?

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Gustav Möller, Per Albin Hansson, Ernst Wigforss

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Who coined the term Folkhemmet?

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Per Albin Hansson

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Who wrote “Moral duty is discontent on a large scale”?

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The socialist writer Artur Lundkvist

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How did the Swedish public initially view Palme?

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As smug, arrogant, and aggressive (Palme later blamed his tendency to blatantly grimace on nervousness)

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When did the alliance between the Social Democrats and the Farmers Party dissolve?

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1957

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When was Tage Erlander PM?

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1946-1969

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Who was the longest serving PM of Sweden?

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Tage Erlander (he’s also the longest serving head of any modern, Western democracy)

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What was the state wine and spirit shop?

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Systembolaget

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Who was Torsten Nilsson?

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Prominent official in the Erlander (and a little bit of the Palme) cabinet. He was Minister of Communications, then Defense, then Social Defense, then Foreign Affairs

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Who was Bertil Ohlin?
He is best-known as former leader of the People's Party (basically liberals)
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Who was Sven Weden?
Short-lived leader of the People's Party (1967-1968)
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Who was Per Engdahl?
Leader of the Sveriges Fascistika Kamporganisation in the 1930s
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What was the Nysvenska movement?
Far-right political movement that emphasized nationalism, corporatism, and anti-communism as well as a cult of personality around Per Engdahl
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Who was the leader of the Svensk Socialistisk Samling?
Sven Olov Lindholm
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What was the real name of the Svensk Socialistisk Samling?
Nationalsocialistika Arbetarepartiet
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When was the Nordic Realm Party founded?
1956
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Who founded the Nordic Realm Party?
Göran Assar Oredsson
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What was the Realm Action Group?
The Nordic Realm Party equivalent of the Sturmabteilung
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When was the Nordic Realm Party dissolved?
2009
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Who was Vera Oredsson?
Wife of Sven Olov Lindholm and then later Göran Assar Oredsson. She eventually led the Nordic Realm Party.
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Who was Konrad Hallgren?
Chairman of the Sveriges Fascistika Kamporganisation
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What was Sweden's first fascist organization?
Sveriges Fascistika Kamporganisation
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What was the Munckska kåren?
Swedish secret paramilitary group founded to protect the Swedish state against domestic enemies, meaning not fascists or Nazis, but left-wing radicals
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What book did Sven Olov Lindholm write?
Svensk Frihetskamp
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When did Sven Olov Lindholm write Svensk Frihetskamp?
1946
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Who was considered THE big anti-semitic writer in inter-war Sweden?
Elof Eriksson
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When did Norway gain independence from Sweden?
1905
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When did Sweden get a bi-cameral parliament?
1867
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When did Sweden's bi-cameral system end?
1970
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What Swedish party was most popular in the interwar years?
The liberal Folkpartiet
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How did Arvid Lindman die?
Airplane crash (it took off in thick fog)
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When did Arvid Lindman die?
1936
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When was Arvid Lindman born?
1862
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How was Hjalmar Hammarskjöld politically?
He was independent, but conservative and royalist
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When did Hjalmar Hammarskjöld become PM?
1914
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Why did Hjalmar Hammarskjöld cease to be PM?
He was accused of being despotic, so he resigned
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Who succeeded Hjalmar Hammarskjöld as PM?
Carl Swartz
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How was Carl Swartz politically?
He was a moderate conservative
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When did Carl Swartz become PM?
1917
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When did Sweden get women's suffrage?
The yes vote was passed in 1919 (full suffrage only came in 1921)
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Was King Gustav V pro-Allied Powers or pro-Central Powers?
He was quite pro-German
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Who was king of Sweden during WWI?
King Gustav V
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Who was King of Sweden during WWII?
King Gustav V
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Why did Karl Staaff cease to be PM?
He was hated for being pro universal suffrage and pro democracy (you could even buy ashtrays of his head in Stockholm). The king was supposed to stay out of politics, but Gustav V denounced his defense politics, forcing him to step down due to lack of monarchical support.
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Who was Zeth Höglund?
A Swedish socialist/communist
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What was Stormklockan?
A Swedish socialist magazine. Zeth Höglund was influential in its founding.
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Who was Mayor of Stockholm during WWII?
Zeth Höglund
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Who are considered the founders of Swedish parliamentary democracy?
Nils Edén and Hjalmar Branting
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Who was the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War?
Gustav Mannerheim
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What did Sweden do during the Finnish Civil War?
It declared neutrality, but secretly supplied the Whites with armaments and resources
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What happened to the Folkpartiet?
It split into the Liberal Party and the Free-Minded National Association over the 1923 Prohibition Referendum
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Who was Karl Kilbom?
One of the founders of the Communist Party of Sweden
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How did Nils Flyg die?
He killed himself in 1943
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Who was Sven Hedin?
A famous Swedish geographer and travel writer
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What was the base of support for the Folkpartiet?
The middle class
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What was the conservative grouping in parliament in very early twentieth-century Sweden?
Almänna valmansförbundet (commonly referred to as Högern)
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What did the voting reforms of 1907 do?
Introduced proportional representation
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When did the Social Democrats become the largest party in the Riksdag?
1914
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What was the Courtyard Crisis?
1914 30,000 farmers marched on the capital to express support for increased defense spending. Gustav V, in response, called the army and navy "my army" and "my navy" causing a constitutional crisis and the government's resignation. The long-term fallout led to the 1925 cuts. which forcibly retired numerous soldiers and officers, pissed off the Right and indirectly led to the formation of the Swedish Fascist Party.
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What is the nickname for the 1928 Swedish election?
The Cossack Election
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Why is the 1928 election called the Cossack Election?
The SSAP and the communist party formed an alliance under the name of the Worker's Party
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What was the Sveriges Nationella Ungdomsförbund?
The Right party's youth organization
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Who won the 1928 Swedish election? Why?
Arvid Lindman; the formation of the Worker's Party leading to effective fearmongering about Bolshevism. Some historians argue that it may have been that the strong tradition of middle-class traders and small farmers in Sweden led to the general public being unreceptive to communist narratives about capitalists and proletarians
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What were the longterm results for the Swedish left of the 1928 election?
Their rhetoric became more moderate and inclusive (the term folkhemmet was coined soon after)
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Who was Olof Olofsson i Kullenbergstorp?
Leader of the Agrarian League in the early 1930s
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Who was Birger Furugård?
Leader of the New Swedish National Socialist Party (later called the Swedish National Socialist Party)
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What was the original name of the Sveriges Fascistiska Kamporganisation?
Sveriges Fascistiska Folkparti
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Who was Barthold Lundéns?
Leader of the Svenska Antisemitiska Föreningen
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When was the Svenska Antisemitiska Föreningen founded?
1923
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When was the Svenska Antisemitiska Föreningen dissolved?
1931
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What did Barthold Lundéns do for a living?
He was an engineer, musician, and editor of the yellow press *Vidi*
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Why did the New Swedish National Socialist Party disband?
Birger Furugård disbanded it after a weak electoral showing in 1936
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Why was the Swedish National Socialist Freedom Association founded?
Sigurd Furugård suggested to Lundén that the Antisemitic League be made into a political party, but Lundén wanted the League to be a place for antisemites of all political persuasions. Sigurd thought that Lundén focused too narrowly on the JQ, so formed his own party with his brothers.
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What was the Organisationen Svenske?
A Swedish antisemitic society
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Who founded the paper *Nationen*?
Elof Eriksson
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How did Sven Olov Lindholm become involved in fascist parties?
He encountered a fascist propaganda car in the street and joined the Sveriges Fascistika Kampsorganisation
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Who was Pyotr Wrangel?
Leader of the so-called "Black Army" which led the White forces against the Bolsheviks in Southern Russia during the Russian Civil War
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What does spöknippet mean in Swedish?
Fascio
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Why did the Sveriges Fascistiska Kampsorganisation change its name? What to?
After visiting Hitler's movement in 1929, the movement became more inspired by German National Socialism than Italian fascism, so it changed its name to the Nationalsocialistiska Folkpartiet
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Who founded the Sveriges Antijudiska Kampförbund?
Einar Åberg
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Why did Einar Åberg become an antisemtic activist?
He read *Protocols of the Elders of Zion* (*Nordic Fascism*, 35)
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What were the names of the Furugård brothers?
Birger, Gunnar, and Sigurd
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What is the most members the Nordic Realm Party had?
1,000 in the 1980s (according to Wikipedia)
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What was the Legion Wasa?
A Swedish neo-Nazi paramilitary organization
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When was the Legion Wasa founded?
1999
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Why did the Nordic Realm party disband?
In 2009 Göran Oredsson was getting too sick and old to write the newsletter. After his death, the Nordiska Nationalsocialister took the spot of the Nordic Realm party
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How was the Nordiska Nationalsocialister formed?
It was formed out of a breakoff from the Svenskarnas Parti, with members also coming from the Nordic Realm party and the Nationalsocialistik Front
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When did Mona Sahlin become leader of the Social Democrats?
2007
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When did Nils Flyg die?
1943
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When was Nils Flyg born?
1891
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What did Nils Flyg's father do?
He was a worker in a sugar mill factory and a gardener
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Who was the leader of the National Socialist Block?
Martin Ekström
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Who was Anna Bugge?
A Norwegian and Swedish feminist
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Who was Adrian Molin most inspired by?
Rudolf Kjéllen and Vitalis Norström

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