Dear John,
For one, he doesn't mention any sources for what he
says. And some of his claims sound weird: for instance, he says that the Swedish
government in 1932 planned to evacuate the inhabitants of Gotland and
give the island away to any country that would take it (this was stopped, he
says, thanks to massive protests from the Gotlanders; I've never heard this
story before).
It's true that official Swedish history has
for a long time focussed on the Svear, neglecting other parts of the country,
but some of the local history writing that has sprung up as a reaction against
this seems equally biassed to me.
All the best,
Hakan
Dear Hakan,
My suspicions, at least as confirmed by a Gothic
site: Gotland, centre
of the
Baltic homepage but apparantly Swedish occupation came very much
later than I thought.
Best regards, John Piscopo
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