Olof Palme

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During his political career he was president of the Social Democratic Party from 1969 to 1986, several times minister, Minister of State of Sweden from 14 October 1969 to 8 October 1976, Member of Parliament from 1976 to 1982 and then again Minister of State from 8 October 1982 until the day of his assassination, according to the last inquiry, closed in 2020, by a employee of the company Skandia suicide in 2000, although formally the case remained unresolved and extreme right involvement Ingvar Carlsson will.

Pragmatic and decisive, Palme led a courageous and risky political life internationally, opposing the Vietnam War, South African apartheid and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. He maintained good relations with the communist bloc (although he harshly criticized the authoritarianism), with the Cuba of Fidel Castro and Chile of Salvador Allende, manifesting a strong diplomatic opposition to the dictatorial government of Augusto Pinochet, established in the South American country after Allende's violent death during the coup of 1973 wanted by the USA, and with the non-aligned countries.

He was appointed in 1986 as a UN mediator in the Iran-Iraq War. He was also nominated for the office of Secretary-General of the United Nations, served as vice president of the Socialist International, and favoured European integration. In internal politics he contributed to the growth and strengthening of Nordic social democracy (Swedish model), advocating the advent of a type of economy planned in a context of democratic socialism, co-management of large enterprises and trade unionism.

Biography

Born in Stockholm from a family of Baltic origins, of medium-high condition and conservative ideology. He lost his father at the age of five. Attending the University of Stockholm adheres to the association of social-democratic students. Graduated in 1951, Palme soon became, thanks to the charismatic personality combined with its human office, president of the Union of Swedish Students, association linked to the Swedish Social Democratic Party.

Olof Palme used to spend his summer holidays with his family on the island of Fårö. From 1955 to 1985, for thirty years he did so uninterruptedly. It doesn't seem that I've ever had personal relationships with Ingmar Bergman, his important roommate. There are no photos, testimonies, articles in the newspapers that speak of encounters between the two on the island of Fårö, while meetings are documented on the occasion of official events to which the two attended simultaneously in Stockholm. Ingmar Bergman probably never tried to meet Olof Palme, because he blamed him and his Social-Democratic government part of the responsibility for the charge of tax fraud that rained on him in 1975. A