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February 28, 1986: The Night Sweden Lost Its Innocence

February 28, 1986: The Night Sweden Lost Its Innocence

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On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot dead on a Stockholm street while walking home from a movie theater without bodyguards. This episode explores how Palme's democratic principles became his fatal vulnerability, examines the 34-year investigation that never found definitive answers, and considers what Sweden lost that night beyond one man's life.

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