His wife Lisbeth was shot also in OTL but thankfully survived. What would have changed had Olof survived well enough to remain PM of Sweden! He was strongly non-aligned and was a mediator in the Iran-Iraq war. Also Sweden faced a massive banking crisis ala Ireland today in the 90s could this have been averted? Are we talking about a great statesman or somebody full of his own ego. Many disparate groups were implicated in his murder from disaffected Kurdish rebels to BOSS agents from Apartheid S. Africa! The person Lisbeth identified as the assasain was actually acquitted and seems to have been a social misfit if anything!
BTW with the current spate of Swedish crime fiction all the rage and indeed Nordic crime fiction incl Larson and Mankell - if this event never happened would we still have such darkness in the face of what's often taken as a near ideal society (that claim is way OTT, IMO)?
BTW with the current spate of Swedish crime fiction all the rage and indeed Nordic crime fiction incl Larson and Mankell - if this event never happened would we still have such darkness in the face of what's often taken as a near ideal society (that claim is way OTT, IMO)?