An interesting article about Sweden in the UK’s Guardian on Sunday describes the decay of Sweden.
Uppsala’s Chief of Police, who was a rabid anti-sexism activist, but who has been found guilty of abusing and raping women and children is central to this portrait of Sweden. The journalist compares him to a character out of Henning Mankell or Stieg Larson’s crime books.
Sweden has an international and domestic image of itself as an equal, modern country with a strong tendency for concensus. According to the journalist, this image is way out of sinc with the Göran Linberg scandal.
He goes on to describe cut-backs in the health care system, political corruption, abuse of power, the assassination of Olof Palme, the submarine scandal, and sex scandals involving MP’s as examples of things that break through the Swedish facade and reflect a society crumbling from within.
To read the article, follow this link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/01/goran-lindberg-sweden-crime-palme
Watching the Swedes 