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
@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"