It has gone 22 years since the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was assassinated in Stockholm. Palme is one of the most well-known Swedish politicians of our time due to his fierce opposition to American foreign policies and his assassination on 28 February 1986.United States recalled its Ambassador to Sweden in February 1968 in protest to Palme (then Minister of Education) participating in a demonstration in Stockholm against the war in Vietnam. In 1972 relations between Sweden and the United States were frozen for over a year after a speech by Palme (PM) comparing the US bombings of Hanoi to other atrocities such as the bombing of Guernica and extermination of Jews at Treblinka. The U.S government called this ...Read More

In Memory of Olof Palme