Re: Asimov Site

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <39ad6dd3@news1.svn.net>, Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter <pausch@saafNOSPAM.se> wrote
>>
>>> There are other things on a par with being an aggressor nation. My
>>> relatives in Norway consider Swedes to be Nazi collaborators...
>>
>> Perhaps you should remind your Norweigan relatives that Sweden gave
>> refugee away from the Nazi's to many Norweigans during the war.  If
>> we really had been Nazi collaborators, like e.g. Mussolini's Italy or
>> Franco's Spain, this could not have happened.
>>
>> However, your friends are partially right: we did let German tropps
>> through to Norway during the war.  That's nothing to be proud of, of
>> course: we did it out of fear, to try to keep Sweden out of the war,
>> and we stopped doing it several years before the war ended.  If you
>> like, you could call us cowards.  But it was not an act of agression.
> 
> OK, opportunistic cowards. I wasn't aware that Sweden allowed Nazis to pass
> through on their way to Norway, but I did know Sweden was happy to do
> business with the Nazi war machine.
> Mainly, I just wanted to put you Swedes on the defensive. You tend to be
> holier-than-thou, I just wanted to remind you of that skeleton in your
> closet.
 
Every country have skeletons in their closet, and they should of course
be exposed.
 
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