Talk:Per Albin Hansson

World war 2
Someone should take a look at the WW2 section, it seems to be written from a very biased point of view... It should show the Swedish SS units that participated in the invasion of Russia 85.227.254.178 13:11, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

also it should show that Per Albin allowed munitions and german soldiers the use of the swedish railway system

There were some swedes in the SS, but they where voluntary, not government troops, and had nothing to do with an article on Per Albin Hansson. (As a side note, there where SS soldiers from most countries, even Britain. There are crazies everwhere.) Jf1966 09:36, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

I thought there were two entire swedish ss units.

jf1966

Now it's all biased again. "Payed no attention to morals" and "played both sides for profit." What kind of neutral POV historian writes like that? --81.228.156.42 (talk) 23:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Winston Churchill wrote that and got the nobel prise for the work that contained it. He actually wrote that Sweden accepted payment from the allies to not suplly steel to the Nazi state, and then demanded smugglers rates for selling it to them. I would say that is playing both sides for profit while ignoring the moral issues. survival did not come into it. Robin48gx (talk) 22:30, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Steel
If we are going to include information on Swedish trade with Germany it needs to be much better cited. For example, "steel"??? Sweden sold mainly Iron ore to Germany (transported straight from the mines to the ships in Norway), not steel. Surely this ore was then smelted using the coal supplies in the Ruhr to produce cast iron and steel. Or was there at that time some big iron smelting industry up there in malmberget that I'm not aware of?

Also, after the 1940 invasion of France the Germans had access to the old mines in Elsaß-Lothringen again, so the Swedish ore was much less important after that. Therefore I don't see how Swedish ore could contribute to the longevity of the Germany Russia war, a citation would be nice for that statement.--Stor stark7 Speak 10:46, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

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POV
This article seems to deal more with Winston Churchill than Per-Albin Hansson. Relevant sources needed.Kozzz (talk) 16:53, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Delighted about what?
" Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Hansson declared strict neutrality and called for the formation of a broad coalition government involving all major parties under his leadership, which was realized in December except only the pro-Stalinist Communist Party and its short-lived pro-Nazi splinter faction, the Socialist Party, much to the delight of the remainder parties. " I am not clear what the remainder parties (other parties?) were delighted about - the short life of the splinter party, its failure to join the coalition, the splintering of the communist party or that both splinter parties did not join the coalition. The supporting reference is in what I take to be Swedish, but I wonder if it actually supports the assertion. Can someone clarify? Rjm at sleepers (talk) 06:10, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Erik Nilsson as predecessor in Ministry of Defence
Linked is a footballer, but there is no Erik Nilsson as politician on the English Wikipedia so the Link should be red, with the option to write a new article about this politician. I don't know how to do this. May someone correct it, or tell me how to do it, please. Thanks LittleDictionary (talk) 14:28, 7 July 2023 (UTC)