Norway – An Inside Perspective (1986)
This article really shattered some of my illusions about Norway being a progressive utopia.<p>The accounts of human rights abuses, imprisonment without trial, judicially condoned murders perpetrated by police, and their coverups and falsification of evidence were truly terrifying.<p>The section on Norway&#x27;s ill-informed and close minded drug war seemed to mirror the United States, and was the very opposite of progressive.<p>On the other hand, the country&#x27;s political and social egalitarianism (for those compliant enough or fortunate enough to escape being victims of the police) certainly seemed to be quite admirable in comparison to what I know about most other countries.<p>It would be interesting to find out how things have changed since the article was written.