It’s of a piece with the party’s accommodating stance on Russia: The Swedish Parliament was so concerned about a journalist who used to work in the party’s office and had contact with Russian intelligence that it denied the journalist accreditation. Jimmie Akesson, the party’s leader, also surprised a television audience in mid-February when he refused to choose between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. The day after the recent election, a reporter asked him what he now looked forward to.
Such people, he stated previously, would be “ enemies of the nation.” Proximity to power hasn’t softened his views. In an interview in 2020, he declared that journalists for the national public service radio and television ought to be “punished” if their reporting was biased. Take Linus Bylund, the party’s chief of staff in the Swedish Parliament. Some of the founding fathers had even served in Hitler’s Waffen SS. The Sweden Democrats was created in 1988 out of a neo-Nazi group called B.S.S., or Keep Sweden Swedish, and of the party’s 30 founding fathers, 18 had Nazi affiliations, according to a historian and former party member, Tony Gustaffson. There’s no doubt about the party’s Nazi origins. Its advance marks the end of Swedish exceptionalism, the idea that the country stood out both morally and materially. Steadily rising for the past decade, the Swedish far right has profited from the country’s growing inequalities, fostering an obsession with crime and an antipathy to migrants. Fallenkvist represents, which, after a steady rise, is now likely to play a major role in the next government.įor Sweden, a country that trades on being a bastion of social democracy, tolerance and fairness, it’s a shock.
But the statement would be entirely in keeping with the party Ms. She meant to declare the weekend a victorious one, she said, but the words came out in the wrong order.
Fallenkvist was quick to disavow any Nazi associations. It’s not the phrase, which is odd and means “weekend victory.” It’s the sound: one letter away from “Hell seger,” the Swedish translation of the Nazi salute “Sieg Heil,” and the war cry of Swedish Nazis for decades. Week of 96 Bitter Beings Synergy Restored (Nuclear Blast) Avoid Cult Mentality (Thriller Records) Black Anvil Regenesis (Season Of Mist) Black Mirrors Tomorrow Will Be Without Us (Napalm Records) Bloodaxe Gales Of November (One Eye Rising) Botch We Are The Romans (Vinyl) (Sargent House) ChuggaBoom Death Pledge (Dead Serious Rec.) Contracult The New Torment (Hogwasche Music) Dayseeker Dark Sun (Spinefarm) Devin Townsend Lightwork (InsideOut Music) Disillusion Ayam (Prophecy Productions) Dragonhammer Second Life (My Kingdom Music) EF We Salute You You And You! (Pelagic Records) Empire Drowns Nothing (Uprising) Evraak Evraak I (Wormholedeath) Exordium Mors As Legends Fade And Gods Die (Praetorian Sword Records) False Figure Castigations (Transylvanian Recordings) Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved (Closed Casket Activities) Gorgatron Agony Reborn (Blood Blast Distribution) Helvellyn The Lore Of The Cloaked Assembly (Purity Through Fire) Ingested Ashes Lie Still (Metal Blade Records) Licht des Urteils Uhraamo (Purity Through Fire) Mist Of Misery Severance (Non Serviam Records) Necrophobic Spawned By Evil (Reissue 2022) (Century Media) Os Tehom (Iron Bonehead Productions) Osyron Momentous (Osyron) R.A.M.B.O.Those two words, spoken by Rebecka Fallenkvist, a 27-year-old media figure and politician from the Sweden Democrats, the far-right party that took 20 percent in Sweden’s general election last week, sent shivers down spines throughout the country.
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