Today Sweden is looked upon as a peaceful neutral country, but it hasn't always been that way. And today I want to talk about one of the historical events that I, as a kid was very fascinated about, and that is the Stockholm bloodbath, or as it's also called the Stockholm massacre.
It started with the Danish king Christian II who was to become the king of Sweden, but Sweden wasn't that easy to convince that this was a good thing. We had supporters of Christian II as the king led by archbishop Gustavo Trolle, and we had people against Christian II becoming the Swedish king, and those were led by Sten Sture the younger.
Christian with one condition, that he had to give a full amnesty for past actions and a guarantee that Sweden should be ruled according to Swedish laws and customs. Christian agreed to this and he was confirmed as the king of Sweden.
But as the story will tell this was not the case.

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