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EU and Russian leaders will open summit talks in Sweden on Wednesday in an atmosphere clouded by uneasy relations between Moscow and Stockholm over human rights and last's year's war in Georgia.
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What about all the Sami that Sweden sterilised under its national Eurgenics policy before it joined the EU? That policy officially ended in the 70's. Only Nazi Germany sterilised more people. Most of the sterilisations occurred after WW2. The Swedish government fights all compensation claims for being forcibly sterilised and only pays out such small amounts as to be insulting.
During that sterilisation period, Sami, single mothers, poor people, etc were also sterilised. It was not about removing mental illness from society, otherwise they would have sterilised all of Stockholm, Småland, Dalarna and Skåne.
What about all the Jewish families who from 1933 to 1945 had there business's stripped of them, so as to appease the nazi's? They were never compensated and they never got there business's back.
For those of you who do not believe that, the mines were stripped of Jewish ownership in 33 to 35 before Hitler even marched into the Rhineland so as to appease the nazi's. That early intervention against Jewish ownership of business's has never been adequately explained and is always glossed over in Sweden.
Why did Sweden not lift a finger when Finland was attacked on Nov 30 1939 for no reason by the Russians, before Norway or Denmark were invaded?
Why did Sweden do nothing when Norway and Denmark were invaded on April 9, 1940.
Why did Sweden gladly supply the Nazi's with Iron? It is obvious by taking ownership of the mines from Jews in 33/34/35 that was nothing to do with later events.
Hypocrisy can only be ignored up to a point. After that, it is obvious it is blatant bigotry.
Thankfully during World War 2 a lot of Swedes fought for the Finns against the Russians, many of whom paid the ultimate price. Quite a few took serious risks to help fellow Danes and Norse.
During the upcoming conference, I hope Medvedev will talk at length about some moronic idiots from Sweden who did join the Waffen SS and fight on the Eastern Front so as to commit atrocities.
Almost every Russian family lost a relative in WW2. It is still a sensitive issue in Russia. If the Russians explain that to the Swedes in undiplomatic terms at the conference, they will deserve it.
Maybe then the Swedes will learn not to 'Erwähnung des Krieges'.
Regarding Georgia, that is a mess, in which both sides were as bad as each other.
Sweden has thrown Ukraine to the wolves, while holding the presidency of the EU. Ukrainian hopes of getting into the EU and Nato have went very far backwards with Sweden at the helm of the EU.
We Europeans need energy security. We do not need a halfwit in Stockholm screwing everything up who has constantly failed upwards to his present position and who could not organise a drinking session in a brewery.
We need the Russians onside, not looking for our blood.
My basic point is, we need Russian gas, not political point scoring.