Fenced school in Finland, 1908
In Lohja and Espoo near Helsinki, the Swedes fenced off the school building with barbed wire, in order to ban Finnish children the access to a school established with the private funds of the Finns. (see the picture on the left)
Luukas school building fenced off with barbed wire in Espoo, Finland in 1908.
Luukas school building fenced off with barbed wire in Espoo, Finland in 1908.
Sweden interferes in Finland's internal affairs
Swedish government constantly interferes in Finland's internal affairs. So does Swedish big business too: Wallenberg family through its firms and Nordea bank among other firms. They all practically decide what languages Finnish pupils, students and employees have to study. They all have taken part in ongoing campaigns to promote Swedish language.
Most political parties in Scandinavian countries are pursuing principles of linguistic imperialism on Finland, and censorship in the media. TV and newspapers spread disinformation about history and all political issues. Censorship in the mainstream media makes Sweden, Finland and Norway plutocracies, ruled by the political and economic elite. In my mind they are not democracies. If Norway and Sweden promote imperialism in Finland, they themselves cannot be democracies.
Most political parties in Scandinavian countries are pursuing principles of linguistic imperialism on Finland, and censorship in the media. TV and newspapers spread disinformation about history and all political issues. Censorship in the mainstream media makes Sweden, Finland and Norway plutocracies, ruled by the political and economic elite. In my mind they are not democracies. If Norway and Sweden promote imperialism in Finland, they themselves cannot be democracies.
Sweden's Support to Nazi Germany
The Swedish government was responsible for the most iron ore the Nazis received. Kiruna-Gällivare ore fields in Northern Sweden were all important to Nazi Germany.
These massive deliveries of iron ore, bearings and military facilities from Sweden to Nazi Germany lengthened World War II. Casualties of the war have been estimated at 20 million killed in Europe. How many of them died due to Sweden's material support to Nazi Germany, is not known.
Source:
Gerard Aalders and Cees Wiebes The Art of Cloaking Ownership: The Secret Collaboration and Protection of the German War Industry by the Neutrals: The Case of Sweden.
The University of Michigan Press. 208 pp. 1996
These massive deliveries of iron ore, bearings and military facilities from Sweden to Nazi Germany lengthened World War II. Casualties of the war have been estimated at 20 million killed in Europe. How many of them died due to Sweden's material support to Nazi Germany, is not known.
Source:
Gerard Aalders and Cees Wiebes The Art of Cloaking Ownership: The Secret Collaboration and Protection of the German War Industry by the Neutrals: The Case of Sweden.
The University of Michigan Press. 208 pp. 1996
Swedish Racism
The nature of Swedish racism is xenophobia towards other (non-Germanic) peoples such as Saami, Tatar, Slav and Baltic peoples and even distant Asians. They were often called "Mongols" by the Swedish racialists. The founder of the organized Swedish racism was A.O. Freudenthal in the 19th century. Organized racialists are awarded in the 21th century a medal named after Freudenthal.
Source: Kemiläinen, Aira. Finns in the Shadow of the "Aryans": Race Theories and Racism. Finnish Historical Society, 1998.
The Time magazine published on September 22, 1997 James Walsh's article Unnatural Selection.
Yet the eugenics program that authorized sterilizations of 'social undesirables', begun in 1935, continued long after the war, persisting until an agency that called itself chillingly the National Institute for Racial Hygiene died a quiet death in 1976. In postwar decades when Social Democratic Sweden considered itself a citadel of enlightenment and tolerance, the country was silently pursuing principles of racial purity long since discredited in most of the world. During those 41 years, some 60,000 Swedes were sterilized as misfits who did not meet the ideal of the blond, blue-eyed, intelligent Scandinavian.
Source: Kemiläinen, Aira. Finns in the Shadow of the "Aryans": Race Theories and Racism. Finnish Historical Society, 1998.
The Time magazine published on September 22, 1997 James Walsh's article Unnatural Selection.
Yet the eugenics program that authorized sterilizations of 'social undesirables', begun in 1935, continued long after the war, persisting until an agency that called itself chillingly the National Institute for Racial Hygiene died a quiet death in 1976. In postwar decades when Social Democratic Sweden considered itself a citadel of enlightenment and tolerance, the country was silently pursuing principles of racial purity long since discredited in most of the world. During those 41 years, some 60,000 Swedes were sterilized as misfits who did not meet the ideal of the blond, blue-eyed, intelligent Scandinavian.
Bloody Year of 1918 in Finland
In 1918 Swedish officers and soldiers were involved in the Civil War of Finland. During the fights and after them some 20 000 Finns were starved to death or executed. Among the victims were men, women, workers, soldiers and civilians.
1918 Memorial in Lahti, Finland
Tauno Tukkinen in his studies reveals an ethnic cleansing in Western Uusimaa (some 50 km west of Helsinki, in May 1918) and Forssa region in Southwestern Finland. Some 200 Finnish civilians, men and women, were executed by the Swedish battalion in Western Uusimaa. The commander of this battalion was Edward Ward.
The division of the Swedish volunteers executed 260 Finnish civilians in Forssa region in April 1918. The commander of this division was Swedish nobleman Carl August Ehrensvärd. In this case 13 of the executed were women and the youngest was only 16-year-old.
All victims were Finnish. So the Swedes executed at least 460 Finns in the spring 1918.
Finnish sources:
Tauno Tukkinen, 1999: Teloittajien edessä. Ihmiskohtaloita Karjalohjalla, Sammatissa, Nummella, Pusulassa, Nurmijärvellä, Vihdissä ja Inkoossa 1918. Ill. 160 pages.
Tauno Tukkinen, 2001: Mäkeen mäkeen vaan. Punaisten henkilötappiot Forssassa, Jokioisissa ja Tammelassa 1918. TT Karjalohja.
1918 Memorial in Lahti, Finland
Tauno Tukkinen in his studies reveals an ethnic cleansing in Western Uusimaa (some 50 km west of Helsinki, in May 1918) and Forssa region in Southwestern Finland. Some 200 Finnish civilians, men and women, were executed by the Swedish battalion in Western Uusimaa. The commander of this battalion was Edward Ward.
The division of the Swedish volunteers executed 260 Finnish civilians in Forssa region in April 1918. The commander of this division was Swedish nobleman Carl August Ehrensvärd. In this case 13 of the executed were women and the youngest was only 16-year-old.
All victims were Finnish. So the Swedes executed at least 460 Finns in the spring 1918.
Finnish sources:
Tauno Tukkinen, 1999: Teloittajien edessä. Ihmiskohtaloita Karjalohjalla, Sammatissa, Nummella, Pusulassa, Nurmijärvellä, Vihdissä ja Inkoossa 1918. Ill. 160 pages.
Tauno Tukkinen, 2001: Mäkeen mäkeen vaan. Punaisten henkilötappiot Forssassa, Jokioisissa ja Tammelassa 1918. TT Karjalohja.
Sweden to annex Northern Finland
In October 1915 a Finnish delegation went to Stockholm, in order to inquire Sweden's attitude on Finnish independence movement. The members of the Finnish delegation were Otto Stenroth, Samuli Sario, A. H. Saastamoinen and Axel Lille. In the negotiation Swedish count Douglas said the Finnish delegation that Sweden wanted to annex Northern Finland, Kemijoki river would have been the border between Sweden and Finland. The Finns, however did not want to cede Northern Finland to Sweden.
Finnish sources: Suomen Kuvalehti magazine 4 / 1935, pages 130-131 and 138, Aaro Pakaslahti's book Suomen politiikka maailmansodassa
Two years later on January 1918 Sweden planned to occupy Northern Finland or the whole Finland. The Swedish troops actually occupied Ahvenanmaa archipelago in 1918 until German troops arrived there.
Here's a link in Finnish: lyyxem.freehostia.com/teljo.htm
Finnish sources: Suomen Kuvalehti magazine 4 / 1935, pages 130-131 and 138, Aaro Pakaslahti's book Suomen politiikka maailmansodassa
Two years later on January 1918 Sweden planned to occupy Northern Finland or the whole Finland. The Swedish troops actually occupied Ahvenanmaa archipelago in 1918 until German troops arrived there.
Here's a link in Finnish: lyyxem.freehostia.com/teljo.htm
The First Anthrax Case
Archivists in a police museum in Trondheim, Norway in 1997 discovered sugar cubes with tiny vials of anthrax hidden in them. The first evidence of anthrax as a weapon follows this discovery. The sugar cubes — containing still-viable anthrax spores — were confiscated from a Swedish spy Baron Otto Karl von Rosen in Northern Norway in mid-winter 1917.
Victims of Sweden in the 17th century
During the Thirty Year War in Germany some 50,000 - 60,000 Finnish soldiers were perished in the period from 1630 to 1648. On top of human losses, the Thirty Year War took a heavy toll on horses with crippling consequences upon Finland's agriculture. This was the onset of a fatal depletion of strength, completed by the dreadful famine in 1697 and then the Great Hate 1714-1721, wreaking havoc on a country with scarcely half a million inhabitants. It is a miracle, that the whole Finnish tribe didn't get extinguished in the claws of Sweden's imperialist kings and the famine.
In the 16th century Sweden occupied Danish Skâne (in Latin Scania), the southernmost part of the Scandinavian peninsula. The Danish inhabitants of Skâne had to deal with a very intolerant Swedish regime. It denied their national rights and killed some of them. All the minority peoples (Finns, Saamis and Danes) were punished for speaking their mother tongue by the Swedish government in 1600-1950s.
King Charles' XI (1655 - 1697) reign in Skâne was of appalling brutality; a word spoken in Danish would cost the speaker's head. One example on the treatment of Finns in those days, was the forcible "recruiting" of shipbuilders for the region of Karlskrona and Kalmar, 1681-1682. At least two thousand Finns from Turku, Pori and Rauma areas were shipped off to a location in Sweden, kept secret for fear of protestation from the common people. In most cases, the families were split up, because they couldn't afford the transportation of family members.
During the 16th and 17th century Finns were lured to move to Central Sweden by the Swedish King. They became to be known as Forest Finns. Väinö Salminen describes their life of the 17th century, when the Swedes tried an ethnic cleansing authorized by the Swedish king. This ethnic cleansing was not successful thanks to Finns' strong resistance; however many Finns were killed. In this difficult situation some Finns fled to Norway or Delaware in America.
(Finnish source: Väinö Salminen, Skandinavian suomalaiset, 1906, in the book: Namsarai, Finnish Literature Society, 1999)
Moreover, when one third of the Finns perished during the Great Famine 1697 as a consequence of several, consecutive years of failed crops, the Swedes never lifted a finger in order to save the people of Finland from starvation.
The weakening of Finland in the 17th century, however, proved fatal for the Swedish Empire, because during the reign of Charles XII (1697-1718), unlike in the Thirty Year War, the supply of Finns to be levied and sent to Swedish battlefronts was running low.
Without Finland's strong support, the Swedish Empire collapsed. Inherent to this age was also a relentless economical exploitation. Finland was taxed harder than other parts of country. During the period 1648-1715, the Stockholm Tar Company, directly to which Finns were under obligation to sell their most important export goods, the tar - was a severe liability for Finland's economy. Swedes then exported the tar with a substantial profit.
Here's a link: http://www.suomalaisuudenliitto.fi/
In the 16th century Sweden occupied Danish Skâne (in Latin Scania), the southernmost part of the Scandinavian peninsula. The Danish inhabitants of Skâne had to deal with a very intolerant Swedish regime. It denied their national rights and killed some of them. All the minority peoples (Finns, Saamis and Danes) were punished for speaking their mother tongue by the Swedish government in 1600-1950s.
King Charles' XI (1655 - 1697) reign in Skâne was of appalling brutality; a word spoken in Danish would cost the speaker's head. One example on the treatment of Finns in those days, was the forcible "recruiting" of shipbuilders for the region of Karlskrona and Kalmar, 1681-1682. At least two thousand Finns from Turku, Pori and Rauma areas were shipped off to a location in Sweden, kept secret for fear of protestation from the common people. In most cases, the families were split up, because they couldn't afford the transportation of family members.
During the 16th and 17th century Finns were lured to move to Central Sweden by the Swedish King. They became to be known as Forest Finns. Väinö Salminen describes their life of the 17th century, when the Swedes tried an ethnic cleansing authorized by the Swedish king. This ethnic cleansing was not successful thanks to Finns' strong resistance; however many Finns were killed. In this difficult situation some Finns fled to Norway or Delaware in America.
(Finnish source: Väinö Salminen, Skandinavian suomalaiset, 1906, in the book: Namsarai, Finnish Literature Society, 1999)
Moreover, when one third of the Finns perished during the Great Famine 1697 as a consequence of several, consecutive years of failed crops, the Swedes never lifted a finger in order to save the people of Finland from starvation.
The weakening of Finland in the 17th century, however, proved fatal for the Swedish Empire, because during the reign of Charles XII (1697-1718), unlike in the Thirty Year War, the supply of Finns to be levied and sent to Swedish battlefronts was running low.
Without Finland's strong support, the Swedish Empire collapsed. Inherent to this age was also a relentless economical exploitation. Finland was taxed harder than other parts of country. During the period 1648-1715, the Stockholm Tar Company, directly to which Finns were under obligation to sell their most important export goods, the tar - was a severe liability for Finland's economy. Swedes then exported the tar with a substantial profit.
Here's a link: http://www.suomalaisuudenliitto.fi/
CHEERS = Skull by the Vikings
The Swedish drinking toast (skål) has a rather macabre background; it originally meant 'skull'. The word has come down from a custom practiced by the warlike and terrorist Vikings who used the dried-out skulls of their enemies as drinking mugs, with the evident advantage that the mug held a large quantity of mead and could be easily replaced.
The Swedish Vikings were the terrorists of their time, who killed thousands of innocent people. The Vikings carried terror around the coastal kingdoms of Europe and Southern Finland.
The Vikings attacked and pillaged the holy monasteries, the sacred places of the Christian world. A French monk wrote about Viking raids in France:
The endless flood of Vikings is on the increase. Everywhere, Christ's people are the victims of massacre, burning and theft. The Vikings destroy everything. Towns are emptied and evil triumphs! Monks, townspeople and everyone else have been slaughtered or taken prisoner. Monasteries along the river Seine have been destroyed.
The Swedish Vikings were the terrorists of their time, who killed thousands of innocent people. The Vikings carried terror around the coastal kingdoms of Europe and Southern Finland.
The Vikings attacked and pillaged the holy monasteries, the sacred places of the Christian world. A French monk wrote about Viking raids in France:
The endless flood of Vikings is on the increase. Everywhere, Christ's people are the victims of massacre, burning and theft. The Vikings destroy everything. Towns are emptied and evil triumphs! Monks, townspeople and everyone else have been slaughtered or taken prisoner. Monasteries along the river Seine have been destroyed.
