Russia's invasion of Ukraine has alarmed neighboring countries and Sweden's bringing back its guide to surviving war.
A man holds the new version of the preparedness booklet"If the crisis or war comes", that will be distributed to all households, on November 18, 2024 in Stockholm, Swedewith survival tips in case the country ever goes to war. The government-issued publication covers topics like how to stop bleeding, the difference between various emergency sirens, and what food should be stockpiled.
That all seems pretty straightforward and reasonable here in 2024. But it’s easy to forget there was a period before our current geopolitical hostilities when that kind of language may have seemed unnecessarily alarmist. Because Sweden has a similar pamphlet that was distributed from the middle of World War II until the fall of the Soviet Union. And then it didn’t start producing this kind of pamphlet again until 2018.
The Cold War pamphlet wasn’t distributed anymore after the official collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and there really did appear to be a receding threat to Western-aligned countries after the Communist government fell. The political fight between communist and capitalist superpowers was largely over but the first two decades of the 21st century would see the old divisions reemerge.
“From the Finnish perspective, this is a bit strange,” Ilmari Kaihko, associate professor of war studies at the Swedish Defense University who’s originally from Finland told the. “ never forgot that war is a possibility, whereas in Sweden, people had to be shaken up a bit to understand that this can actually happen.”
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