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Sweden distributes 'be prepared for war' leaflet to all 4.8m homes
theguardian.com ^ | Mon 21 May 2018 08.36 EDT | Jon Henley

Posted on 05/21/2018 4:21:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Om krisen eller kriget kommer (If crisis or war comes) explains how people can secure basic needs such as food, water and heat, what warning signals mean, where to find bomb shelters and how to contribute to Sweden’s “total defence”.

The 20-page pamphlet, illustrated with pictures of sirens, warplanes and families fleeing their homes, also prepares the population for dangers such as cyber and terror attacks and climate change?

“Although Sweden is safer than many other countries...If you are prepared, you are contributing to improving the ability of the country to cope with a major strain.”

Similar leaflets were first distributed in neutral Sweden in 1943, at the height of the second world war. Updates were issued regularly to the general public until 1961, and then to local and national government officials until 1991.

The leaflet advises people to think about how to cope if there was no heating, food became difficult to buy, prepare and store, there was no water in the taps or toilet, and cash machines, mobile phones and the internet stopped working.

It advises checking the source of all information, warning that “states and organisations are already trying to influence our values and how we act ... and reduce reduce our resilience and willingness to defend ourselves”.

A detailed page of “home preparedness tips” advises the population to stock up on water bottles, warm clothing and sleeping bags, and “non-perishable food that can be prepared quickly, requires little water or can be eaten without preparation”.

In the event of armed conflict, it says, “everyone is obliged to contribute and everyone is needed” for Sweden’s “total defence”: anyone between 16 and 70 “can be called to assist in the event of the threat of war and war”.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bepreparedforwar; europeanunion; leaflet; malmo; nato; sweden
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To: BenLurkin

“Sweden distributes ‘be prepared for war’ leaflet to all 4.8m homes”

They should be distributing 6.5 X 55’s.


21 posted on 05/21/2018 4:58:42 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: BenLurkin

What’s the point in preparing for a possible future war when your culture has already surrendered to domestic subversives? This is a distraction to allow a certain minority group a little more breathing space to finish the job while the governing elites plot their exit strategies.


22 posted on 05/21/2018 5:11:07 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Osage Orange

I just think the globalist racists would love to turn Sweden into an Islamic Republic.


23 posted on 05/21/2018 5:22:56 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Kalamata

Thunder and lightning, very verry frightening! Galileo! Galileo!


24 posted on 05/21/2018 5:37:36 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: BenLurkin

I hope they didn’t distribute them to the ‘no go zones’.


25 posted on 05/21/2018 5:43:18 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: Osage Orange

“What do you mean?”

Where have you been for the past ten tears?


26 posted on 05/21/2018 5:44:46 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: Crucial
Ok...you explained your post.

Thanks

27 posted on 05/21/2018 6:03:27 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: dljordan
Been right here...

Trying to decipher FReepers posts...

Am I wrong?

28 posted on 05/21/2018 6:05:47 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: BenLurkin

War?...on racism or toxic masculinity??


29 posted on 05/21/2018 6:15:31 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
prepares the population for dangers such as cyber and terror attacks and climate change
IOW, the war they're currently in, but not fighting back -- that's still to be ignored? Scandinivian *******s. Thanks BenLurkin.

30 posted on 05/21/2018 6:50:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: beethovenfan
They’re at war right now with the Muslim hordes who are flooding their country and raping their women. They seem strangely accepting of this.

Swedes are so PC their culture will be dead before they figure out invaders are't always armed...

31 posted on 05/21/2018 7:56:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (An Islamist, a Communist and a traitor walk into a bar.Barkeep says 'what can I get you Mr. Brennan')
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To: Bonemaker

“They should be distributing 6.5 X 55’s.”

Maybe the Swiss still have some laying around.

L


32 posted on 05/21/2018 8:00:16 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Lurker

I do...their loss my gain.


33 posted on 05/22/2018 4:53:06 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: BenLurkin

Some countries in Europe are starting to remind me of a real life version of that movie “The Purge” where all crime is legal, including murder and rape. In the movie it’s for one day only..


34 posted on 05/22/2018 2:03:08 PM PDT by catbertz
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