Answer to submitter: Answer: Stop using « DDR-Sweden » as a bat in the debate

When bourgeois politicians, and also, for example, DN’s leadership page, the Social Democrats criticize it at regular intervals that we are then alleged to have lived in « DDR-Sweden ». The term is still used.

The Moderates’ leader in Stockholm Christoffer Fjellner does so when he turns to the proposal from the governing bodies in Stockholm that farm sales of alcohol should be limited by adapting to Systembolaget’s opening hours (DN 13/4). On 16/4 he will receive answers on the submitter side by Svante Linusson (C). He certainly has the same opinion as Fjellner when it comes to farm sales, but considers that in some other areas it is in fact the Moderates who create a « GDR Sweden ».

Please politicians, leadership writers and others, stop comparing Sweden to the GDR! In the GDR, young men were sent to the border and the wall with orders to shoot countrymen who tried to escape from the dictatorship. The Security Service Stasi held the population in an iron grip with letter control, telephone interception and stating. It is estimated that there was a stasiman or indicator per 63 inhabitants.

It has over the years Entered in the strategy of bourgeois parties to equate social democracy with the GDR. Judging by Linusson’s posts, the bourgeois parties should apparently begin to fight each other with the same unpalatable method.

That said, put it off! This history writing does not belong in a democratic society. We have lies and fake news so it is enough.

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