The Estonia Case: Challenging Sweden's Blind Faith in Government
The Estonia disaster of 1994, in which a Baltic Sea ferry sank and hundreds of people lost their lives, symbolizes a problematic phenomenon in Swedish society: faith in the state. This event has raised deep questions about the limits of trust in state institutions, especially in Sweden, a country known for its strong faith in state institutions. The immediate reaction to the disaster and the subsequent investigations showed that many Swedes, even those who had lost loved ones, offered little audible resistance to the behavior of their government. This casts a disturbing light on state faith, especially considering that the most intensive investigations into the disaster were not conducted in Sweden but in Germany, which was not directly affected by this catastrophe. In the video "The sinking - How did Estonia really sink? - in an interview with a journalist, the Swedish government is criticized, particularly the then Prime Minister Karl Bildt. The journalist says that Bildt and hi