it's wild reading interviews from Finnish people in northern Sweden talking about how they were physically and mentally abused at government run work cabins as children in the 40s/50s/60s and then also reading people trying to explain it away as "just normal child discipline" in columns in newspaper a few decades later
like for context one of these interviewees stated they saw children being forcefed crappy food to the point of puking then having their faces shoved into the puke-covered food to continue eating. another said they were beat with a stick until bloody for ducking when the headmistress of the work cabin tried to slap them for speaking Finnish, then got beat more in the morning for bleeding on their bedsheets.
@mgclgrl yeah there is so much shitty history in Europe. Also the ever present abuse by the chuches. I don't even refer to the recent stuff. I mean the sewage tank full of baby skeletons in Ireland and stuff like that.
@pipe_dreams these work cabins were actually done in cooperation with the Swedish church, one column described them as "beating Jesus into the children and the Finnish language out of them"
@mgclgrl yeah fuck church. all of them.