Nazis and Communists in Tärendö

It is an interesting article in www.nsd.se/tärendö 5/9. It is about the politics in Tärendö, Tornevalley in the Thirties. In the election only three parties got votes, the Nazis 146, the Communists 124, Högern(conservative) 134. It was the biggest victory for the Nazis in Sweden. The Nazis supported the ideas of regional independence, wich gave Finnish the same value as Swedish. Elderly married women supported the Nazis in Tärendö. Their strong man in Tärendö was the man who gave work in the forest for the men,many people was depending on him, so they had to vote for the Nazis to get a job. There were no votesecret, the Communist was prisoned in the workcamp or concentrationcamp Storsien in Kalix County. Sweden supported Germany until they lost in Stalingrad. One guy from there that I knew told me that one of his Grandfathers was Nazi, the other Communist. This study is written by Tage Alalehto and Mats Johansson, University of Umeå.