She got honoured with a monument in Alingsås for exactly this. There is also an Wikipedia article about this incidence.
The statue is awesome, but it fails to capture the hatred and aggression in the photo.
The left was different there
Runesson’s photograph was published the next day on the front page of the Swedish national newspaper Dagens Nyheter, and on April 15 by two British newspapers, The Times and The Daily Express.[3] Another photograph taken by Runesson during the event shows the 10 Neo-Nazis being chased, pelted with eggs and violently confronted by a crowd made up of hundreds of attendants of the left-wing rally joined by local Växjö residents. One of the Neo-Nazis was kicked unconscious on the ground, then saved by one of the protestors who reportedly took pity on him. The far-right activists eventually managed to shelter in the toilets of the city’s train station, hiding there for a few hours until the police transported them away.[3][5]
Back then Nazis were nearly universally understood as bad. Especially since there still were many living survivors of the Nazi’s genocide.
If this happened today, the left would get endless criticism. But I fully agree we should bring this back.
I think hitting them with a purse, throwing eggs and making them hide in toilets is fine, but the unconscious thing isn’t something I would recommend. They probably already have brain damage, they’re nazis.
The statue is titled, “The Old Woman with the Handbag”.
The woman in the picture was 38 when it was taken. The artist made her look older for some reason.
I think it’s just time doing its thing. The artist probably saw her as old because she dressed like an old person dressed in 2015.
I’m happy to hear that the statu finally was put up. There was so much debate and arguments about it, mostly about it encouraging violence especially if taken out of context and also her still living family being unhappy with the portraition of her.
I remember the debates but I never actually heard how it ended.
