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|summary=A misguided look at one of the most misguided people of recent history.
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Anders Behring Breivik was 32 when he both planted a van bomb in Oslo's central government district to hit out at what he thought was 'Cultural Marxism', which killed 8, then left for an island in a lake 24 miles away, where a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itself. He gunned down 69 people – more than one in ten of them fatally those at the camp – and wounded many scores more. He also spammed countless people with another of his projects, a lengthy manifesto declaring his ideas about Islamisation and what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining his country. His case was one of the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – as was the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives of just 21 years. This is, as you'd expect, one of the many books to result from the case.
It's just not what I wanted from a book about it all. We open with two lengthy chapters about life at the Workers' Youth League camps, from the eyes of a lot of young, teenaged voices whose identities we can never hope to latch on to. Here you can go skinny-dipping (although only on the allowed days), here you can find someone to join you down Lover's Lane (and possibly end up in the camp newsletter), you can have lectures and workshops geared to each and every political focus of the young left-winger, watch Datarock concerts (remember them?) and more. Heck, you can even enjoy Bolshevism Bay.
[[Category:Politics and Society]]
[[Category:Stian Bromark]]
[[Category:Hon Khiam Leong]]

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