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The last weeks the swedish students have been studying some conflicts in history lessons. We have been reading about the world wars, more about that later on, and about some swedish conflicts. Here is a text from two of our students about their thoughts about this conflict.
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| Ådalen, Sweden, 1931 |
Conflicts in Swedish history.
Ådalen 1931, there were a peaceful demonstration. Military ruined it, five killed and five hurt.
Today we talked about Swedish history, specifically the topic about Ådalen. There was a rescission and the companies lowered the salary. The workers thought that was unfair and demonstrated. The 14 of may 1931 there was a big demonstration and military had been called in to say that the way was shut down. The soldiers threw smoke-grenades some of the demonstrators got burn marks.
When the military noticed that that didn’t work they sent in the cavalry. The cavalry said "Stop in the name of the law". Even if they wanted to stop they couldn’t because the one behind pushed them forward. This caused that the military tried to scare them back but only ended scaring the horses. Because of that they started shooting.
Four of the demonstrators got killed and one woman who was just watching. Another five demonstrators got hurt. This
This conflict could have resulted in a revolution. A lot of people were angry with the government. But it was solved in a peaceful way. The Swedish model, which includes talking with your opponents and try to find a solution instead of battling each other began to take form. We will study more conflicts in swedish history, for example the midsummer crisis during the second world war, and see if we can find a pattern of how conflicts can be solved in a peaceful way.
