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#swedengate reflected the curious…

Tatu Ahponen
Jun 6, 2022

The #Swedengate thing has a fair bit of attention on Twitter. It started with someone posting on Reddit (and this subsequently screenshotted on Twitter) about how, as a child, they were not offered dinner when playing at their Swedish friend's place. This was then confirmed as a Swedish (and, to some degree, a general Nordic) custom by others. Much bewilderment and condemnation of the Swedish culture as a child-starving horror show has followed, by other Europeans as well as non-Europeans.

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Lt Gen P
Jun 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpnjGBCHbXI

I'm Lieutenant General Petrovsky

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