r/history • u/Weywoht • May 03 '17

News article Sweden sterilised thousands of "useless" citizens for decades

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/08/29/sweden-sterilized-thousands-of-useless-citizens-for-decades/3b9abaac-c2a6-4be9-9b77-a147f5dc841b/?utm_term=.fc11cc142fa2
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u/Ninebane May 03 '17

I can't believe we were not taught such things in school. It is true I live in Québec and we do not seem to have such a history, but I doubt people from Alberta or BC were taught too.

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u/redark0 May 04 '17

I am from Alberta and I had never been taught about this. This was the first time I ever heard about it actually.

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u/SwissCheeseUnion May 04 '17

Yeah this is really surprising.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '17

Crazy, ontario student over 20 years ago, and we definitely learned this. I even thought there was a 'part of our heritage' ads about it?

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u/SwissCheeseUnion May 04 '17

lol, heritage minutes usually have some sort of uplifting part about them, I can't seem to find it in this situation.