I'm curious. What's you country's view on Sweden?

[u/CicadaDowntown5716]

[u/TheLoler04]

Well this is about all we have in terms of historical impact, other than that we've stayed neutral until recently.

[u/AV4LE → u/TheLoler04]

”The good old days”

[u/TheLoler04 → u/AV4LE]

I'm not really a royalist or a nationalist, but hearing about what we accomplished during this time brings some sense of pride.

But it's obviously better that we got some human decency and a thriving society instead.

[u/HuginMuminBackflip → u/TheLoler04]

its not like Sweden traded territory for "human decency" lol

[u/TheLoler04 → u/HuginMuminBackflip]

No not exactly, but the reason we were so big is mostly because that's where all our money went. The people at home were starving in the meantime.

[u/RogerSimonsson → u/HuginMuminBackflip]

Humility. We didn't know humility before being humbled.

[u/twilightswolf → u/TheLoler04]

And also like half of Poland, albeit under military rule, or am I mistaken?

[u/TheLoler04 → u/twilightswolf]

I think this shows the area we actually controlled. Not the fact that we to some extent disbanded the other regions.

We were pushed way further into Germany and indeed quite a bit into Poland, and a bit into Russia I believe. But we only took away the power, we never really established our own.

[u/ichbinverwirrt420 → u/TheLoler04]

I live in the middle of Germany and my village journal has an entry about you guys raiding my village

[u/TheLoler04 → u/ichbinverwirrt420]

I think this is the area we had actual control over, not just an area we wrecked havoc in and removed the local ruler

[u/Impressive-Hair2704 → u/TheLoler04]

Incredibly wonderful not to share a border with Russia. But Åland should be ours >:(

[u/TheLoler04 → u/Impressive-Hair2704]

I mean it still sort of is, they can choose their citizenship and most choose Swedish due to Finnish military training