Info on the top lady & statue: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/woman-nazi-handbag-sweden-1985/
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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That is strange. I knew her grandson, who was very proudly boasting about her and her pure hatred for nazis, and this image. He was himself very vocally anti-nazi, that's how we met.
It's important to note that according to the article her son is not against the expression against nazis themselves, but rather because of the trauma to having to be constantly reminded of having lost his mother at such a young age. Just so that nobody gets the idea that he's even remotely defending nazis or their modern Swedish offspring, the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna).
So I listened to the documentary that was sourced as the origin of the quote. I wrote a comment here.
In essence, it doesn't seem like she regretted punching a nazi per se, but that she feared that it'd cause the life she'd worked so hard to build here to fall apart. I'd imagine that I also wouldn't be very fond of seeing an image my mother hated popping up left and right, and being reminded of what she went through because of it, even if it is as a symbol for a cause I align with.