Word: hermansson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voters to stick with a known quantity. The chief loser was Sweden's tiny Communist Party, which normally inherits any protest votes from the Social Democrats' left. This time it was the Communists who were on the wrong end of the protest vote. Communist Leader Carl-Henrik Hermansson roundly denounced the Soviet invasion and was denounced by Moscow radio in turn as "the chatterbox husband of a millionairess"-his wife is the daughter of a Göteborg clothing-store tycoon. Hermansson regularly ignores Moscow's line, and the party has become so bourgeois that he once...
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