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Message: <blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 116593" data-attributes="member: 1211">I didnt brag, I said I agreed with the line of action that our government used; I like most old people I meet, and some of them would be dead if Sweden entered the war. That's the decisions a politician has to make; shall we fight a pointless war against an enemy that will crush us? The answer to that one is no IMO. OTOH, Sweden sold metals to Germany, that according to some calculations prolonged the war by three years. That is unforgivable, and if something makes me feel ashamed, it is that some executives made the decision to increase their already considerable bank accounts by keeping a war going. Every krona they made is payed in blood by a dying soldier. That was extremely bad, and in the end of the war, it was not like Germany would threaten Sweden if we stopped selling materials.Sweden is not clean; to make profit out of war is IMO one of the lowest and dirtiest of all actions, as is selling out your neighbour when there actually is a chance that you can oppose the super power. But if my history isnt totally off the records, Germany invaded Norway in 1940, before US and Soviet entered the war; against Great Britains stood a devastated France and a Great Britain that wouldnt last long; to resist the Germans then would be suicied.So to summarize, keeping out of the war = right, making profit out of it = wrong.</blockquote>