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In his May Day speech of 1933, Swedish Social Democratic Party leader and prime minister Per Albin Hansson attacked the two parties representing Nazism and Bolshevism, not least because: ‘Both also have un-Swedishness in common, they ape foreign perceptions and tune in slogans from abroad.’ (quoted in Pålbrant 1977: 57, emphasis in original). One week later, the Social Democratic and Agrarian parties concluded the Red-Green Crisis Agreement. This coalition was extraordinary. It was Sweden’s (or Scandinavia’s) response to the Great Depression, ushering in the era of the social democratic Folkhemmet (‘People’s Home’) (Lindström, 1985; Madsen 1984).
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Lindström, U. (2000). Sweden: The Durable Compromise. In: Berg-Schlosser, D., Mitchell, J. (eds) Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919–39. Advances in Political Science: An International Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333993774_18
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