In 1982, Swedish media filled up with scare stories about Soviet submarine infiltrations, fomenting a national panic that disrupted then-PM Olof Palme's efforts at nuclear disarmament. He was assassinated four years later.
The Soviet sub scare turned out to be a NATO psyop. In fact, the subs were sent by the UK and US navies as part of a deception operation aimed at undermining Palme and shattering Sweden's historic neutrality.
Subs and PSYOPs: The 1982 Swedish Submarine Intrusions – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)https://prio.org/publications/5105#:~:text=In%20the%201980s%2C%20the%20Soviet,changed%20Swedish%20public%20opinion%20drastically…
.Over 4 decades later, NATO's fear mongering has scored its ultimate goal: Sweden has joined the Alliance, dropped its investigation into the Nordstream terror attack without issuing any findings, and instructed its population to prepare for war with Russia.
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Not true at all. It started with an actual Soviet submarine running aground within Swedish waters, in all likelihood because of faulty navigation. The scare that followed, which indeed was a main event in Swedish politics, and repeated in the same fashion in 2014–2015, did not involve any actual submarines at all, outside of the imagination of those involved…
@XfactorP4ndaGreen2yrs2Y
What about the Uboat that was hit by swedish depth charges and later surfaced in the UK damaged? Many western countries including the Soviet union tested their Uboats abilities in Swedish water without the consent of the Swedish gov.
Never heard of it. Probably not true. I don’t think these submarine intrusions ever existed in reality. Nothing even remotely looking like evidence have ever been presented, but there’s an enormous amount of rowing boats, whales, seals, weather buoys, sludge formations, sea floor cables, oil tankers and even tourists in a canoe(!) falsely being thought of as invading the country…
@DoveSidTranshumanist2yrs2Y
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
If you learned that your country had been influenced by foreign psyops, how would your trust in your own government and international bodies change?
@9KQ39MS2yrs2Y
It wouldn't. I'd still wouldn't trust my own government nor international bodies.
@OriginalRedistricting2yrs2Y
Sweden was well served by 200 years of neutrality even if, like Ukraine, had a long border with Russia for over 100 of those years, until 1917. Of course, to be a neighbor of Russia does not necessarily need to be dangerous.
NATO’s fearmongering…about the actual Russian invasion of Ukraine? What?
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