October disease

Sweden became the prey of national radicals

October disease. The birthplace of Elof Palma was shocked by the results of the parliamentary elections on September 19: 20 out of 349 seats in the Swedish Riksdag (parliament) were received by radical nationalists - the Swedish Democrats party, led by Yimmy Okesson. One of the last bastions of universal tolerance, Sweden fell under the onslaught of the depressed, who are increasingly confident on the continent. What ailment was struck by old Europe - the diagnosis was made by The New Times
5.7% of Swedish voters bought the main slogan of the “Swedish Democrats” “Preserving Sweden Sweden”. This is a very serious indicator for the party, which openly offers to reduce immigration from Muslim countries by 90%. The success of the “Democrats” all the more encourages that a few years ago they were perceived as one hundred percent marginals: they arranged closed parties in Nazi costumes with a swastika, shouting as a greeting the fascist “Heil!” Now they are in RICSDAG.

So the participants of the anti -racist demonstration of VOKSTOLMA react to a public

The performance of Yimmy Okesson

Right march
Visit to date, the catch Palm, a convinced supporter of the redistribution of public goods, from which the Swedish model has grown, a passionate fighter with racism and xenophobia, * * * Ex-Prime Minister Sweden Polome was shot on Stockholm Street in February 1986. The crime is never disclosed. Surely I would have experienced the greatest disappointment in life: the nation, who considered itself the standard of sociality in the soul, has turned, as Swedish commentators notice with sad irony into a “normal” European country. The right -centric government of Fredrick Reinfeldt carefully narrows the once comprehensive network of social guarantees. And although the extensive and effective social system of Sweden still accompanies a person “from the cradle to the grave”, the trend is obvious: the country can no longer afford that it itself was reasonable 20 years ago. Well, any deterioration in the social situation, of course, can be attributed to the “people who came up”, the incident of pensioners and students. Statistics helps ultra -right. Sweden always willingly accepted immigrants. But over the past 10 years, the number of residents of the country born outside Western Europe has increased one and a half times, reaching 10% of the population (against 7% in 2000).

Unscrewed intellectuals
The Swedish elections have confirmed the tendency to correct the public atmosphere, gaining strength in Europe. When 10 years ago the party of the extreme right-wing populist Jorg Haider entered the Austrian government, the European Union was horrified and imposed sanctions against the Member Country-Austria. Today, such political associations are successful in one European country after another, and in some places are part of the government, but this does not bother anyone. The cave conservatives are replaced by Jean-Mari Le Pen * * The leader of the French ultra-right “National Front”, where his daughter Marine Le Pen comes to the first positions. Or the same Heider, who was drawn to put in a good word for Hitler, to go to visit Saddam Hussein, there are young politicians with a liberal background. In Holland, for example, the most violent fighters against Islam are representatives of the abbreviated part of the creative intelligentsia up to bohemian gay activists: they reject the obscurantist customs that bring people from the Arab East under the slogan “respect for multi-grindingurism” to Europe. * * In March of this year, the ultra -right Party of Freedom, led by Goert Wilders, known for its active anti -Muslim position, won at the local elections in the Netherlands. An interview with him was published in The New Times No. 40 dated 06.10.2008. The similar situation in Denmark, one of the most free and tolerant countries: the scandal of the caricature on the Prophet Muhammad, which caused the newspaper Yullands-Posten, was painted by the famous artist Kurt Westergard. Yes, and 31-year-old Yimmy Okesson, the leader of the Swedish Democrats, looks like a typical graduate of an elite business school with a prospect of rapid career growth. "

Swedish elections confirmed the trend

to correct the public atmosphere,

gaining force in Europe

" When an euphoria passed
The rise of xenophobia is a reflection of the confusion and uncertainty in the future that Europeans experience in the face of fundamental changes in the world. When the euphoria passed from the victory over communism, the inhabitants of Western Europe began to understand: the volume of guaranteed goods will inevitably contract, and the next generations are doomed to live worse than their parents. The main reason is the crisis of the project of the Unified Europe, associated with a colossal internal imbalance after a large -scale expansion of the European Union, uniting 27 countries today. Subjected into attempts to adjust its own overgrown mechanism, Europe does not have time to respond to external challenges - economic, political, demographic. The number of visitors exceeds the possibilities for their integration into European societies, which at the same time face the problems of aging and the unfavorable structure of the labor market.

On the marginal
Previously it happened like this: the extreme right parties, as a rule, scattered themselves because of the internal strife. Now they appear on the political landscape again and again, and even with more and more noticeable figures. This is a reflection of moods that even respectable politicians cannot ignore today and what they are even ready to speculate on at times. For example, the campaign of the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy, contrary to the protests of the European Commission, against the illegal settlements of Romanian and Bulgarian gypsies in French territory, is evidenced. * * According to the latest polls of public opinion, the actions of Sarcosi are supported by about 80% of the French, and his personal rating for August-Satur grew by 10%. According to the results of the June parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, the government managed to form a government only after it was enlisted by the support of the Anti -Muslim party Wilders, which gained 23 deputy places. Yes, and in Sweden now, the lawntric alliance does not have enough votes for sole rule: Okesson’s “help” with his comrades is not excluded. So far, all leading parties swear that they will never go to negotiations with the ultra in life. But political logic has its own laws: many old parties begin to adjust their approaches after the electorate. And the forces of the anti -immigrant sense are usually also sharply negatively configured against united Europe.
Many in Sweden are still confident that the Extreme Palma Valofa ordered the extreme right - for the struggle against racism and conservative circles. However, most likely, he was killed by the arrested in hot pursuit, and then released for the lack of evidence of the sociop-re-recidivist Krister Petratersson: to be a loser in the society of universal prosperity is especially bitter and insulting ... In the history of Europe, the problems of nationalism and social dysfunction, intertwining, always gave rise to terrible cataclasms. By the end of the twentieth century, it seemed that the Old World had forever defeated his past. Now confidence in this is less.

Thomas Hamberg, journalist (Malmo, Sweden):

My Sweden, where Carlson, living on the roof was born, a country with exemplary order in everything, neutral in all respects, where the most demand has been in greatest demand for the average fat content, the usual Sweden is a thing of the past, giving way to extremists, marching in political correct Europe. Before that, the Netherlands and Denmark, Switzerland and Austria fell. But France chose the original way to distinguish against the general background: official circles intercepted the initiative - and at the same time part of the electorate - at the extreme right, starting deportations on an ethnic basis. I will not talk about lumpenized Russia, where the passionate son of a lawyer, who once proclaimed the “right to protect national states”, holds the post of vice-speaker of the parliament. The Swedish Democrats Party burst into the Swedish Riksdag, whose origins are in frankly neo -Nazi organizations. Her leader Yimmy Okesson calls on to "return Sweden to the Swedes." The October Party becomes not just a parliamentary faction - albeit a small, but extremely important weight on a bowl of political weights: the main alliances and blocks will probably be sought with it. Okesson does not get tired of repeating: his party is ready to cooperate with all his might, if this serves as a solution to "priority issues for the party." And there are three such questions: an unconditional restriction of the influx of immigrants, tightening the fight against crime and the right to a decent old age. In other words, Okesson and his Sopartians dream of making the path that the Ksenofobe, hostile to Muslims, has already passed before them, the Danish People’s Party: he not only managed to get rid of the marginal image, but also to become the third in influential party in the country. Bottom line: Datchan neighbors have already noticeably tightened immigration legislation. The release of ultra -right parties from the marginal zone of European policy to the system is the latest trend in the life of Europe. They say that revolutions are devouring their own children. Unlike the revolutions of democracy, it happens, they themselves become a victim of their own children.