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This comment to the article was quite interesting:
"There have been many positive moves in Post WW2 history in Sweden,, but it must not be forgotten how this was achieved and at what cost to the nation as a whole.
They made a lot of money during WW2 from acting as neutrals; business men dealing with both sides and in particular bolstering the Nazi war machine. Sweden was also used as a transit camp for the Nazis to invade Norway. These facts alone had an enormous effect on the future place in history as it enabled the country to streak ahead while the UK was bankrupted physically, and emotionally by taking a stand against the Germans.
The social engineering policies of the 60s and 70s were a sociologist's dream for a PhD research study as the state controlled the causes emanating within society; some of these had positive effects; education and medical care were top notch and still are to a large extant. The instrumental music taught in schools which I did was a great boon which produced many fine musicians, but that has become a lot less as in all societies it is the arts which are cut back when money is scarce, and it is.
Do not be suckered in by the cosmetics of the Swedish life style as there are many serious problems, the consequences of which are seen in growing right wing ideologies of a nationalist racist hue, which although not new have become much greater in profile.
If you really want to be ahead in the digital world then there is only one place and that is Japan. Europe, even Sweden is well behind."
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