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#10
Petrol cost $6/gallon when it cost $1 in the US, roughly $9 now.
#9
A children's books writer named Astrid Lindgren had to pay 102% taxes back in 1976 due to a badly designed system.
#8
The state has been keeping extensive political files on a large chunk of the population ever since WW2. The ruling socialdemocratic party had over 100'000 of its communist brethren in these files during the 1960's when just over 200'000 people voted for the communist party, information gathered by trade union informants listening in on political conversations at workplaces. The social democrats and the communists in this country were almost identical as far as policies go, but they were different entities competing for the same power. After 1980, mainly opponents of immigration went into these files.
#7
People in these files had problems getting employed since trade union representatives are present at nearly all job interviews.
#6
During the middle of WW2, the state handed over a man named Knut Haijby, who claimed to have had a homosexual relationship with the king, to Germany, describing him as mentally ill in the hopes that the Germans would kill him under the Aktion T4 program. This to put an end to the embarassment it was for the king having this man tell his story.
#5
Thousands of people diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome by uneducated social workers, being expected to belong in nursing homes since the social workers had learned in their training that this syndrome equated mental retardation, me personally being one of the victims.
#4
The prime minister uttering this threat as part of a speech when addressing the parliament in 1995: "I will, along with the administration I belong to, in all situations with force brand the ones speaking ill of the country abroad."
#3
You can be sentenced to up to four years in prison for "hate speech", with saying homosexuality is wrong being one of the most common offenses.
#2
The state introducing roughly a million asylum seekers to the country between 1970 and 1995 without a single new job in the private sector, creating huge problems, and labelling anyone having a problem with this immigration as a "racist".
#1
When Fidel Castro looked like he was retiring in 2006, the state TV took the opportunity to show roughly five hours worth of Cuba-friendly programming on primetime TV, describing what gains the country had made and what a good example it was.
See if you can guess what country this is without the help of a search engine.
Petrol cost $6/gallon when it cost $1 in the US, roughly $9 now.
#9
A children's books writer named Astrid Lindgren had to pay 102% taxes back in 1976 due to a badly designed system.
#8
The state has been keeping extensive political files on a large chunk of the population ever since WW2. The ruling socialdemocratic party had over 100'000 of its communist brethren in these files during the 1960's when just over 200'000 people voted for the communist party, information gathered by trade union informants listening in on political conversations at workplaces. The social democrats and the communists in this country were almost identical as far as policies go, but they were different entities competing for the same power. After 1980, mainly opponents of immigration went into these files.
#7
People in these files had problems getting employed since trade union representatives are present at nearly all job interviews.
#6
During the middle of WW2, the state handed over a man named Knut Haijby, who claimed to have had a homosexual relationship with the king, to Germany, describing him as mentally ill in the hopes that the Germans would kill him under the Aktion T4 program. This to put an end to the embarassment it was for the king having this man tell his story.
#5
Thousands of people diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome by uneducated social workers, being expected to belong in nursing homes since the social workers had learned in their training that this syndrome equated mental retardation, me personally being one of the victims.
#4
The prime minister uttering this threat as part of a speech when addressing the parliament in 1995: "I will, along with the administration I belong to, in all situations with force brand the ones speaking ill of the country abroad."
#3
You can be sentenced to up to four years in prison for "hate speech", with saying homosexuality is wrong being one of the most common offenses.
#2
The state introducing roughly a million asylum seekers to the country between 1970 and 1995 without a single new job in the private sector, creating huge problems, and labelling anyone having a problem with this immigration as a "racist".
#1
When Fidel Castro looked like he was retiring in 2006, the state TV took the opportunity to show roughly five hours worth of Cuba-friendly programming on primetime TV, describing what gains the country had made and what a good example it was.
See if you can guess what country this is without the help of a search engine.
None correct so far.
Really stinks to live here. This country is a reformed monarchy that the socialdemocrats have added trade union rights and such to along with a welfare state, but not really anything in the way of protection for the citizens from the state. It is virtually impossible to sue the state for any harm it does against you, there are so many things missing in this political system that should be required for it to call itself a democracy.
