National Youth ( sv, Nationell ungdom) was a Swedish

neofascist Neo-fascism is a post-World War II far-right ideology that includes significant elements of fascism. Neo-fascism usually includes ultranationalism, racial supremacy, populism, authoritarianism, nativism, xenophobia, and anti-immigration ...

and openly

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organisation. National Youth was closely linked with the

Swedish Resistance Movement The Nordic Resistance Movement; Norwegian: nb, Nordiske motstandsbevegelsen, NMB; nn, Nordiske motstandsrørsla NMR; fi, Pohjoismainen Vastarintaliike, PVL; is, Norræna mótstöðuhreyfingin, NMH; da, Den nordiske modstandsbevægelse, ...

SÄPO The Swedish Security Service ( sv, Säkerhetspolisen , abbreviated SÄPO ; until 1989 ''Rikspolisstyrelsens säkerhetsavdelning'', abbreviated RPS/Säk) is a Swedish government agency organised under the Ministry of Justice. It operates as a ...

classified it as a white power organisation and

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classified it as a Nazi organisation. The group became famous in the summer of 1998 for tearing down photographs of nude boys at the Swedish Historical Museum. The reason behind the action was to protest against

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and "

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". The exhibition was closed down after the event.Aftonbladet: Nazister rev ned porr på museet
/ref> Since December 2000 they participated in the annual ''Salem March'' for Daniel Wretström, who was killed in the

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suburb of Salem by a group of which some were young immigrants. Together with the Swedish Resistance Movement they published the

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''Nationellt Motstånd''. Earlier they published the magazine ''Folktribunen'', which among other things has praised the people behind the racist killings in Kode and Klippan (in

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) as true patriots. The editor,

Klas Lund Klas Henrik Pontus Lund (born 14 February 1968 in Lidingö, Stockholm County) is the Leader of Nordic Strength and a former of the Swedish Nationalist group Svenska motståndsrörelsen (''Swedish Resistance Movement'') (SMR) now part of the wi ...

, was convicted of bank robbery and of the murder of Ronny Landin in the summer of 1986. In the beginning of the 1990s Klas Lund was one of the leaders of VAM. In May 2006, the Swedish Resistance Movement announced the youth organization and all its activities and members as merged with the main organization.

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