“It took tokhögern of the history of Charles XII”
“In the early 1800s he was, however, in the political backwater. In 1809, when Sweden lost all of Finland, one-third of the kingdom, it was hardly the location to pay homage to someone who also lost the war against Russia. “
“the National redress had to be sought elsewhere. Partially arranged by the from France imported Karl XIV Johan managed to förhandlingsmygla to Norway without war.”
“But perhaps even more by some successful bestsellerförfattare found on the vikings.”
“fellow writer Esaias Tegnér was the first with the word ”viking”, in a niddikt if the English admiral Lord Nelson (Tegnér was Napoleon against England). But I think both Tegner and other authors have found that the word viking had an exciting and poetic connotation.”
“Even if it is for the present unknown old norse word meant something like ”the coward thieves who like to ambush from the rear”. An insult, that is.”
“all Said and done. Erik Gustaf geijer’s poem ”the Viking” came then to haunt the Swedish school children in over a hundred years. In the poem depicted our ancestors ”vikings” as a sort of germanic democrats in early, in that with the shield on the arm went to the thing and took the common wise decisions. Tegnér diktcykel ”Fritjofs saga” (also a long-lasting skolbarnsplåga) became an international bestsellersuccé unsurpassed until Stieg Larsson’s miss Salander. Fritjofs saga was read aloud in social gatherings both at queen Victoria’s English and Wilhelm II’s German court.the two royals competed over who was most ”viking”. She said that she won because she claimed to be a lineal descendant of Harald Bluetooth. He said that he as ”german” of course, was the most viking. And the vikings became the highest fashion in an imaginative målerikonst. In this situation, should the fan be Karl XII.”
“But a little later came the so-called skandinavistiska the movement to stop the death of Charles XII to his bosom.”
“They said, namely, that Charles XII, in fact, was a scandi. About as unabashedly obvious as when the temperance movement far later appointed Karl XII to his spiritual father.”
“He’s learning the according to a popular legend to have been a teetotaler.”
“About the second half of the 1800s was Charles XII vänsterliberal and was hailed as a champion of the small nations a right to freedom and self-determination. His war against Russia was transformed into thought-out anti-imperialism. A popular collection of, among others, immigrant poles were behind the funding of the statue in Stockholm, which was unveiled on the 150th anniversary of his death on 30 november 1868. It began, therefore, the spring for Charles XII, but he had not yet become a högersymbol.”
“he was in a production of professor of history Harald Hjärne in 1897. Now was his war against Russia is no longer a defense for smaller states without a fight to save the west from eastern barbarism. Germanic tribes against the slavs, in other words. And thus took the tok – and the extreme right of Karl XII.”
“the 200-year anniversary of the hero king’s death in november 1918, however, was not so brilliant as the conservatives had intended. World war ii was over. But the Russian tsar had been overthrown during the revolution, Finland was in the civil war between the red and white, in Stockholm, the raging food riots, it was revolution, and the Swedish king had for the sake of safety packed their suitcases.”
“In this situation was a golden opportunity for the coalition government between the liberals and social democrats to finally break down right fierce resistance to the idea in general and with women’s suffrage. The right model was only male suffrage, in addition, graduated according to income. Faced with the threat of revolution has the right discontented surrender. And then nyttade’t get dragandes with Karl XII.”
“since Then, it is just the worst tokhögern and its skinnskallesvans in more modern times, retaining their worship of Karl XII as a defender of the western culture against the eastern barbarity. Now skinnskallarna let the hair grow, ekiperat on Dressman, entered parliament and gained significantly more toxic ideological role models than Charles XII.nHan himself would not have understood a damn if he heard the present-day f d is going to lay out the text about how the English ”nation” to be cleansed and transformed into a unified culture under the old model. When tokhögern in addition, have become opponents of the EU and Putinanhängare will be Karl XII finally politically useless. May he now rest in political peace.”
“incidentally, I believe that…”
“✓ … the last party secretary of the moderate party, Sofia Arkelsten, holds the modern record in the fun historically are indeed related, when she claimed that it was the conservatives who fought for, and implemented, women’s suffrage in Sweden. Sweden was last in Scandinavia to introduce democracy – precisely because of the right’s stubborn resistance.”
“✓ … Karl XI was much more admirable than Karl XII. Him let the right-wing hate. His fiscal policy was clear vänsterpartistisk.”
