Missing Link to Ulf Svensson

Most of our viewers have either forgotten or never experienced a world, in which left-wing ideas influenced the international political discourse. But it once existed. In the late 60s the unity of the western world, or the „free world“, as it liked to call itself, experienced the unintended and ever growing fallout from the attack of the USA on a small country in Indochina. The Vietnam War, although officially never declared, became the starting point of a tidal wave of protests in the western democratic countries. The US attack against Vietnam turned out be an attack on itself, a war against the credibility of the western world in US dominated NATO countries. In most nations the students demonstrated against their governments. In Sweden it was the Social Democratic Prime Minister Olof Palme, who led the demonstrations against the Vietnam war, marching with the ambassador of North Vietnam beside him. A picture US politicians would never forget. Richard Nixon used to call Palme „that