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Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from until his assassination in He left office after failing to form a government after the general election , which ended 40 years of unbroken rule by the Social Democratic Party. He faced a second defeat in , but he returned as prime minister after electoral victories in and , and served until his death. Palme was a pivotal and polarizing [ 1 ] figure domestically as well as in international politics from the s onward.
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He was steadfast in his non-alignment policy towards the superpowers, accompanied by support for numerous liberation movements following decolonization including, most controversially, economic and vocal support for a number of Third World governments. He was the first Western head of government to visit Cuba after its revolution , giving a speech in Santiago praising contemporary Cuban revolutionaries.
Botha of South Africa, denouncing apartheid as a "particularly gruesome system". His condemnation of American bombings in Hanoi , comparing the bombings to a number of historical crimes including the bombing of Guernica , the massacres of Oradour-sur-glane , Babi Yar , Katyn , Lidice and Sharpeville and the extermination of Jews and other groups at Treblinka , resulted in a temporary freeze in Sweden—United States relations.
Palme's assassination on a Stockholm street on 28 February was the first murder of a national leader in Sweden since Gustav III in , and had a great impact across Scandinavia.
On 10 June , Swedish prosecutors held a press conference to announce that there was "reasonable evidence" that Stig Engström had killed Palme. Sven Olof Joachim Palme [ 5 ] was born on 30 January [ 6 ] into an upper class, conservative Lutheran family in the Östermalm district of Stockholm. His sons adopted the surname Palme. Many of the early Palmes were vicars and judges in Scania.
One branch of the family, of which Olof Palme was part, and which became more affluent, relocated to Kalmar ; that branch is related to several other prominent Swedish families such as the Kreugers, von Sydows and the Wallenbergs. His mother, Elisabeth von Knieriem — , [ 8 ] of the Knieriem family who originated from Quedlinburg , [ 9 ] descended from Baltic German burghers and clergy and had arrived in Sweden from Russia as a refugee in Elisabeth's great-great-great grandfather Johann Melchior von Knieriem — had been ennobled by the Emperor Alexander I of Russia in The von Knieriem family does not count as members of any of the Baltic knighthoods.
His travels in the Third World , as well as the United States, where he saw deep economic inequality and racial segregation , helped to develop these views. A sickly child, Olof Palme received his education from private tutors. Even as a child he gained knowledge of two foreign languages — German and English. He studied at Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket , one of Sweden's few residential high schools, and passed the university entrance examination with high marks at the age of He was called up into the Army in January and did his compulsory military service at Svea Artillery Regiment between and , becoming in a reserve officer with the rank of Captain in the Artillery.
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After he was discharged from military service in March , he enrolled at Stockholm University. On a scholarship, he studied at Kenyon College , a small liberal arts school in central Ohio from to , graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Palme wrote his senior honour thesis on the United Auto Workers union, led at the time by Walter Reuther.
After graduation, he traveled throughout the country and eventually ended up in Detroit , where his hero Reuther agreed to an interview which lasted several hours. In later years, Palme regularly remarked during his many subsequent American visits, that the United States had made him a socialist, a remark that often has caused confusion.
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Within the context of his American experience, it was not that Palme was repelled by what he found in America, but rather that he was inspired by it. After hitchhiking through the U. In he became a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. During his time at university, Palme became involved in student politics, working with the Swedish National Union of Students.
In , he became a member of the social democratic student association in Stockholm, although it is asserted he did not attend their political meetings at the time. As a student politician he concentrated on international affairs and travelled across Europe. Palme was an atheist. In , Palme was recruited by social democratic prime minister Tage Erlander to work as his personal secretary, [ 15 ] becoming the first of Erlander's large personal staff, a group of young aides such as Ingvar Carlsson and Bengt K.
Johansson , [ 16 ] a group that became known as "the boys". He also was a member of the Worker's Educational Association.