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“In a sense it is totalitarian,” he agreed as we sat in the canteen at the offices of the newspaper Expressen, for which he is a columnist. “Of course, you can’t compare it to Nazi Germany or North Korea, it isn’t as bad as that, but there is a creeping totalitarianism that is defined as conforming, to do like others. Nobody really questions the kind of society we have, that’s what I dislike so much about Sweden. Indoctrination is what you would call it.”
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
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