A lot of attention has been given to the populist anti-immigration Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party as a result of MP Olli Immonen’s declaration of war against multiculturalism and last weekend’s neo-Nazi Suomen vastarintaliike (SVL) demonstration that turned violent in Jyväskylä.
In June, Immonen posed with members of the SVL at Eugen Schauman’s grave.
With all the neo-Nazi and far right rhetoric poisoning the air and Immonen, do those rails used to advertise the PS party convention in Turku next weekend remind you of the ones that led to the notorious Birkenau death camp below?
That was the first image that came to mind when I went to the PS website.
Certainly the comparison of the two pictures may be an exaggeration but in light of Immonen’s problems with the SVL and his hostile declaration of war against multiculturalism permits an eerie connection between both pictures.
This is the Birkenau death camp near Auschwitz.
Migrant Tales hopes that PS MP Immonen will be sacked from the party. This is good but the PS will use him as a sacrificial scapegoat like they did with James Hirvisaari.
And after they get rid of Immonen the party will incorrectly claim that they have rid their party of neo-Nazis.
False.
* The Finnish name of the Finns Party is the Perussuomalaiset (PS). The English names adopted by the PS, like True Finns or Finns Party, promote in our opinion nativist nationalism and xenophobia. We therefore prefer to use the Finnish name of the party on our postings.