PM Sällström

Förnuft räcker långt. Pythagoras logiska förmåga har alltid fascinerat mig. Att ställa konkreta praktiska frågor ger ofta originella och intressanta svar.

[PM Sällström @pythagorasPS]

@Georgia_07os Her

[PM Sällström @pythagorasPS]

@ElonVisioniX 16

[Pablo Funes 🇦🇷✌🏻 @pablofunes69]

@HalfwayPost #OperationEpsteinFury

[Milos Poliak🇪🇺 @PoliakMilos]

@carlbildt

[Ulf Kristersson @SwedishPM]

Dear Viktor,

I understand that there is an election campaign in your country, and that this time you are truly being challenged for power.

But we do not interfere in your election campaign, nor do we want to become part of it.

Sweden and the Swedish people have always been friends of Hungary and the Hungarian people, as you know. We were friends of Hungary before your government, during your government, and we will remain so after your government.

We remember when Hitler’s genocide of Jews struck Hungary, and how Sweden in 1944 sent diplomat Raoul Wallenberg on a special mission to Budapest, to save as many Hungarian lives as possible.

Tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews survived because we provided them with provisional protective passports and citizenship here in Sweden. When the Soviet Union later invaded Hungary, Raoul Wallenberg was forcibly taken to Moscow and disappeared.

The Swedish diplomat died, but tens of thousands of Hungarian lives were saved. We would do it again.

We also remember when the Soviet Union brutally crushed your Hungarian struggle for democracy and freedom in 1956, and when Prime Minister Imre Nagy was later executed for his efforts to democratize the country.

When Russian tanks crushed the Hungarian freedom struggle, the Hungarian people pleaded with the UN and all Western powers for help. Almost no one listened.
But one country that showed deep solidarity with you was Sweden.

We opened our arms to your freedom fighters and dissidents. We allowed you to build exile opposition against Soviet communism here, despite our non-alignment. It was not without risk for us. But we did it anyway—because it was the right thing to do.

Today, over 40,000 people of Hungarian descent live in Sweden, many of whom are descendants of the Hungarian refugees who came here in connection with the 1956 uprising. They are a well-integrated immigrant group in our Swedish society.

Democratic states help each other, then and now. And they stand up against countries that try to oppress others.

That is why, just as in 1944 and 1956, we support democratic countries that Russian tanks try to overrun. Back then, it was about Hungary; today, it is about Ukraine. And if we do not act, it could be about another country tomorrow.

This is also why we often express concern about the developments in Hungary in recent years. Hungary ultimately regained its freedom, but freedom must also be defended.

That is why we question when you go to have coffee with the leader of the same country that crushed your compatriots’ freedom struggle in 1956 and that today attacks your neighbour, Ukraine.

Hungary and the West are not strengthened by closing the door to their European friends or by attacking each other and the very things that distinguish us from barbarism — democracy and the rule of law.

Let me conclude with some wise words from yourself in 2007:

“As kind of a new generation of the West, our message to those younger than we is to stick to a Western type Hungary, not to let Hungary be derailed from its Western path, and to love that Hungary is a Western type country, which means that we believe in the free will of people and in the mutual responsibility towards each other that we take upon us, which are inseparable parts of Western culture.

The oil might come from the east, but freedom always comes from the west. And democracy cannot be directed from above, it can only grow from the hearts of people and in this way create a viable, Hungarian life.”

Finally, I wish to convey Sweden’s respect for the Hungarian people, and to wish your country a free, peaceful, and successful election.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

Wall Street enthusiasm for Trump 🇺🇸 and his policies seems to be fading. No one knows what the tariffs will be tomorrow. No one knows the magnitude of layoffs. No one knows the size of the deficits ahead.

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

For the third day in a row large crowds paying homage to @navalny in Moscow 🇷🇺.

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

More and more most interesting videos and impressions from the Navalny funeral in Moscow 🇷🇺. People are chanting that Ukrainians are good people.

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

History - it was some years ago in Moscow 🇷🇺. You only see the back of me talking to Alexey Navalny, and nearby is Mikhail Gorbachev. Later we all talked. I believe it was the only time the two of them meet.

[SH1954 Silvia @SH19544]

@RpsAgainstTrump https://t.co/YTr2P1M6pA

[Göran Rosenberg @gorberg]

Buildings destroyed in Gaza since October 7th. The indisputable image of a war crime. Source: The Guardian.

[The Ark @KovchegLive]

On Thursday,a court in Russia sentenced Sasha Skochilenko, an artist and an antiwar activist, to 7 years in prison for a protest involving changing price tags in a supermarket to display information about the war.
Russian activists held pickets on her support all over rhe world⬇️

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

That was also important on this 🇺🇦🇸🇪 day as @SwedishPM Ulf Kristersson brought the leaders of all political parties in the country together in united and strong support for @ZelenskyyUa and 🇺🇦. To see them all lined up in harmony on an issue is rather unique.

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

I was horrified to hear that peaceful Gammalsvenskby - the Old Swedish Village - on the right bank of the Dnipro river in southern 🇺🇦 is now subject to almost daily 🇷🇺 bombardment.

[PM Sällström @pythagorasPS]

@carlbildt It seems to be tilting southeast if north africa and middle east is included…

[Karolina Skog @karolinaskog]

Idag är det många som undrar vad som ligger bakom hur underhållskulden kring avloppsnäten. Det är rädsla att höja avgifterna som är kärnan. Som så ofta så stör viljan att ha låga kostnader för villaägarare ut rationellt agerande.

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

That’s it. An impressive 🇺🇦capability.

[Alexey Navalny @navalny]

19 years in a maximum security penal colony. The number of years does not matter. I perfectly understand that, like many political prisoners, I am sitting on a life sentence. Where life is measured by the term of my life or the term of life of this regime.

The sentencing figure is not for me. It is for you. You, not me, are being frightened and deprived of the will to resist. You are being forced to surrender your country of Russia without a fight to the gang of traitors, thieves, and scoundrels who have seized power. Putin must not achieve his goal. Do not lose the will to resist.

[PM Sällström @pythagorasPS]

Donation of computers to students in Kenya. Great job done!

[DirectEd Development @DirectEdDev]

On Tuesday, day 2 of the DirectEd Bootcamp 2023 in Kenya, @moses_kahure visited Maryhill Girl’s and Mang’U High to deliver laptops and WiFi to our Access Scholarships students

We’re grateful to the #Cardano and #GitCoinBeta communities that enabled this ❤️

Moses reports: