AH Challenge: Right Wing Sweden

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is this:

With a POD no earlier than January 1st 1900, have Sweden, a country that has become known for it's welfare state and social liberal policies, develop in such a way that in ATL it's known for it's social conservatism, pro-business attitude, and weak welfare state.

Good luck!
 
Sweden joins the Central Powers, and the conservative reactionaries are responsible for gaining Finland for Sweden. The Entente doesn't bother to punish Sweden for the sins of the Central Powers, as Bolshevism is the new threat.

As the conservative industrialists do their best to emulate the pre-WW1 and pre-WW2 German industrial conglomerates like Faber and Krupp, and organized labor is cracked down on, a Spanish Civil War analogue breaks out after a nasty royal abdication crisis, with fascist aid to the conservative forces and Soviet aid to the leftists. As in the Spanish Civil War, the conservatives triumph, and a Franco-like leader takes over, keeping his country neutral in WW2 and managing to survive until deep into the Cold War.

The king (who is returned to power as Juan Carlos was to Spain in OTL) takes over, but isn't as pro-democracy as JC I. The NATO equivalent feels like it has to prop him up as a buffer against the Soviets, and while the country slowly liberalizes in the 1990's and 2000's, it is very much a pro-business and pro-social conservative nation today.

A bit unlikely, but that's my best shot. :eek:
 
Nazi Germany pressures Sweden to become fascist.

After the war is over and the Nazis are defeated, the USA sets up a democratic but right-wing government in Sweden.
 
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is this:

With a POD no earlier than January 1st 1900, have Sweden, a country that has become known for it's welfare state and social liberal policies, develop in such a way that in ATL it's known for it's social conservatism, pro-business attitude, and weak welfare state.

Good luck!

Just exchange Switzerland and Sweden. :)
 
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