The Nation of Sweden and its Dark Past

Exit Transparency

The question to be asked, is it more important to keep tranquility than actually pursuing uncomfortable truths? Here follows a description of a nation whose leaders choose the former option.

Traumatic Events

The nation of Sweden has experienced two events that can be considered to constitute its darkest hours. In 1986 Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered in Stockholm, gunned down after visiting a cinema with his wife, the late Lisbet Palme. In 1994, the passenger ferry M/V Estonia en route from Tallinn to Stockholm, perished in the Baltic Sea claiming almos 900 victims.

Blatant Hypocrisy Exposed

The two investigations regarding these events quickly showed that openness and transparency is not necessary in a supposed democracy like Sweden, no, this is for other countries whom can be accused of reverting from rule of law just because the politicians and journalist say so. Any politician or journalist in Sweden can without being questioned, accuse, for example, Russia of cover- ups andlacking concrete evidence to back it up. How did the Swedish societies self-image uphold in the aftermath of the two aforementioned events?

State and Media Response

First and foremost both investigations utterly failed. Quickly Swedish politicians and journalists aligned to present acceptable explanations to the general public. Regarding the murder of Olof Palme it was put forward that it was a lone assassin responsible for the killing. In the case of M/V Estonia journalists and an investigation group known as the J.A.I.C., the Joint Accident Investigation Committee, quickly sought to present an unsupported cause to the disaster.

Deception Implemented

Regarding the case of Palme some journalists actually did put forward alternative theories. But they were all too ridiculous for anybody to take seriously, hence the lone assassin was eventually cemented, culminating in the closure of the investigation in the year 2020. In connection with this a deceased person, Stig Engström, was presented as the probable assassin. Basically a defenceless individual was, without any sufficient evidence, accused of the murder. Nobody was even appointed to present a defence on Engström’s behalf. Indeed a very bizarre, and unheard of, ending to an investigation.

Serious and real observations in connection with the murder have consequently been suppressed by journalists, politicians. In the year 2023 an individual by the name Robert Barestrand came forward with information about who could have been involved in the murder. Here a strange chain of events started to unfold. The Swedish Police had received his accounts in early 1986, as well as in the 1990’s, and finally in the year 2018. Thanks to private investigators the police actually released some of his statements, albeit heavily censored versions. But when Mr. Barestrand himself requested the statements from 1986, which he has a right by law to do, the answer was that they were non-existent.

The handling of the M/V Estonia disaster highlighted this discourse even more clearly. Politicians and journalists quickly promoted the root cause as being the loss of the vessels bow visor, even though none of them even knew how such an apparatus actually works, let alone anything about such a vessels construction. Any naval incident always results in a so called sea trial in a court of law. But according to Swedish logic, none such was needed for the worst maritime disaster since the Second World War. Instead the official investigation, if it could be deemed that, ignored survivors accounts, manipulated them and even altered statements that did not fit in with the prefabricated explanation. There actually exists terrifying statements from survivors about explosions and other deviations that strongly contradict the official version. Even to this day journalists regularly promote the official version, obviously lacking any knowledge about how a vessel like the M/V Estonia is constructed.

A Faded Democracy

What has unfolded, to say the least, is evidence of cover-ups that includes the political elite, regardless of party assosiation, as well as a joint journalistic effort to uphold the official narrative.

This is all occurred in a country which is almost always first in line to accuse other nations of having “state controlled media” and not adhering to democratic and human rights principals…

Christopher Sjölund

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