Sven Olof Joachim Palme (30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986.

Palme was a pivotal and polarizing figure domestically as well as in international politics from the 1960s onward. He was steadfast in his non-alignment policy towards the superpowers, accompanied by support for numerous liberation movements following decolonization including, most controversially, economic and vocal support for a number of Third World governments. He was the first Western head of government to visit Cuba after its revolution, giving a speech in Santiago praising contemporary Cuban revolutionaries.

Frequently a critic of Soviet and American foreign policy, he expressed his resistance to imperialist ambitions and authoritarian regimes, including those of Francisco Franco of Spain, Augusto Pinochet of Chile, Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, António de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal, Gustáv Husák of Czechoslovakia, and most notably John Vorster and P. W. Botha of South Africa, denouncing apartheid as a "particularly gruesome system." His 1972 condemnation of American bombings in Hanoi, comparing the bombings to a number of historical crimes including the bombing of Guernica, the massacres of Oradour-sur-glane, Babi Yar, Katyn, Lidice and Sharpeville and the extermination of Jews and other groups at Treblinka, resulted in a temporary freeze in Sweden–United States relations.

Palme's assassination on a Stockholm street on 28 February 1986 was the first murder of a national leader in Sweden since Gustav III in 1792, and had a great impact across Scandinavia. Local convict and addict Christer Pettersson was originally convicted of the murder in district court but was unanimously acquitted by the Svea Court of Appeal. On 10 June 2020, Swedish prosecutors held a press conference to announce that there was "reasonable evidence" that Stig Engström had killed Palme. As Engström committed suicide in 2000, the authorities announced that the investigation into Palme's death was to be closed. The 2020 conclusion has faced widespread criticism from lawyers, police officers and journalists, decrying the evidence as only circumstantial, and too weak to ensure a trial had the suspect been alive.

Edit: meant to post this in /history but Sweden is tryna join NATO right now so /news works too.


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  • spring_rabbit [she/her]
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    2 years ago

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  • clover [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I feel an almost allergic reaction to this Depp/Heard trial shit. I really don't enjoy getting recommended vids titled "Lawyer OWNS Amber Heard." Stop. Please. Go away.

    • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Half my Youtube feed is full of that shit even though I'm constantly clicking "Do not recommend this channel" or whatever, super annoying/weird.

    • Cromalin [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      even if you believe she's abusive it's incredibly fucked up to make videos like that about domestic abuse

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Literally do not care to hear about the personal lives of celebrities that people have intense parasocial relation fixations with.

  • Trouble [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Sitting there minding my own business

    Brain: Hey remember the time in high school u thought u were being cool then said the stupidest thing in the world and everyone laughed at u :meow-knife-trans:

    Me: :ohnoes:

  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    just found out one of my teammates died :sadness:

    had no idea if anything was going on, no info on circumstances. fug

  • GundamZZ [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    You know Breadtube is radlib trash because they all got pink and blue lighting and similar-coloured filters, but none of them are using the yellow Parenti filter.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Found out my incel cousin hasn't been an incel for a few months now since I last saw him. He's dating a gorgeous trans woman who's seven inches taller than him. Looks like he's learned a lot since then and is more well adjusted. Glad to see him shedding all that nonsense and in a happier place.

  • layla
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    2 years ago

    I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.

    Has this dude not heard about civility? Bad look ngl :/

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    I'm a grown women, why do I like cute shit so much? :blob-no-thoughts:

    I swear I'm a giant manchild (womanchild?)

      • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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        For sure haha. I’m determined to figure it out lol. I feel like I go way to conservative bc im afraid to over do it and then I end up not achieving much lol

        Think I have a decent handle in eye shadow tho

    • Wmill [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      You gotta cover it or it it'll dry out, let this be a lesson for next time.

        • Wmill [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Good and don't pump your mascara that will only dry it out faster.

  • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Going into the bookstore and seeing RBG with a crown on as part of their feminist works display :kombucha-disgust:

    Turning to see a featured trans works display with Leslie Feinberg prominently featured :leslie-shining:

    Picked up Beyond Pink or Blue :trans-specter:

  • knifestealingcrow [any]
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    2 years ago

    I'm planning a trip to Cuba, how do I avoid Havana syndrome

    Serious answers only

    (First part is true, if anyone has any advice that'd be great. This is the first time I've ever been able to actually travel so I really don't know what I'm doing. Aiming for December so I can attend las parrandas de remedios)

  • Trouble [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Man I wish I felt better in the mornings without having to go to sleep before 1 am why can't I have both. Well, both and a source of income with which to pay rent.

  • MelaniaTrump [undecided]
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    2 years ago

    im homeless in a new area this week and the average age of everyone is like 60

    weird retirement town or some shit

    no one has called the cops yet somehow so I guess I'm staying