Editing Bevara Sverige Svenskt

{{Short description|Swedish far-right wing organization}}
{{expand Swedish|date=March 2023|topic=hist}}
[[File:BSS - Varning till svenska flickor.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Sticker from BSS warning Swedish girls not to shame their race by [[Miscegenation|having sex with]] "[[negro]]es".]]
[[File:Sdsticker.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Early campaign sticker of the [[Sweden Democrats]] using the ''Keep Sweden Swedish'' slogan.]]'''{{lang|sv|Bevara Sverige Svenskt|italic=no}}''' ({{IPA|sv|bɛˈvɑ̌ːra ˈsvæ̌rjɛ ˈsvɛnːskt|pron|Sv-Bevara Sverige Svenskt.ogg}}; '''BSS'''; "Keep Sweden Swedish") was a [[far-right]], [[Nativism (politics)|nativist]] organisation<ref name="Lodenius">[[Anna-Lena Lodenius]], [[Stieg Larsson]]: ''Extremhögern''. Tidens förlag 1991,  chapter ''BSS: en folkkampanj för rasism'', {{ISBN|91-550-3686-4}}</ref><ref name="Widfeldt2015">{{cite book 
|last=Widfeldt 
|first=Anders |date=2015 
|title=Extreme Right Parties in Scandinavia 
|publisher=Routledge 
|isbn=978-0-415-26589-8 
}}</ref> based in [[Stockholm]], Sweden and the precursor of the current [[Sweden Democrats]] political party; it also remains a slogan used by various Swedish nationalist parties. The stated objective of the BSS movement, and the aim of the slogan, was to initiate a debate in order to stop [[immigration]] by non-[[Europe]]ans and [[repatriation|repatriate]] non-ethnic Swedes. Inspiration came from the post-World War II fascist organisation [[Nysvenska Rörelsen]] created by [[Per Engdahl]].<ref>[http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/det-fordjupar-bilden-av-kamprads-engagemang_6412096.svd SvD: ”Fördjupar bilden av Kamprads engagemang”]</ref> The group was often violent.<ref>{{cite news |title=Här är SD:s mörka bakgrund i nazism |url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/inloggad/har-ar-sds-morka-bakgrund-i-nazism/ |work=Expressen |issue=7 Sep 2014}}</ref>

Founded as a loosely organised network in 1979<ref name="Widfeldt2015"/><ref name="expobss">{{cite web |title=Bevara Sverige svenskt (BSS) |url=https://expo.se/fakta/wiki/bevara-sverige-sve%C2%ADnskt-bss |website=Expo |access-date=28 October 2019}}</ref> by [[Leif Zeilon]], and formalised as an organisation in 1983, BSS was involved with the [[Populism|populist]] [[Progress Party (Sweden)|Progress Party]] ({{langx|sv|Framstegspartiet}}) in 1986. This co-operation took place under the name [[Sweden Party]] ({{langx|sv|Sverigepartiet}}). This cooperation evolved into the [[Sweden Democrats]] ({{langx|sv|Sverigedemokraterna}}) (SD) in 1988.<ref name="Stieg">[[Stieg Larsson]] & Mikael Ekman: ''Sverigedemokraterna - Den nationella rörelsen'' {{ISBN|91-7324-877-0}}</ref>

Claiming not to be racists, their often aggressive sticker campaigns arguably indicated otherwise with [[slogan]]s such as "Låt inte din dotter bli en negerleksak" (Don't let your daughter become a [[negro]] toy) and "Negrer hotar sina offer" (Negros threaten their victims).<ref name="Lodenius"/>

The slogan "Keep Sweden Swedish" was taken on by the Sweden Democrats and became prevalent during 2003–2004, when it was used for headlines in the party newspaper "SD Kuriren" and as a slogan on bumper stickers and T-shirts.<ref>{{cite web |title=BSS |url=https://expo.se/fakta/symbollexikon/bss |website=Expo}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=January 2021}}

== Notes ==
{{Reflist|2}}

==References==
*Charles Westin: [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ikg/jkg/2-2000/westin.pdf ''Neo-Nazism in a Welfare State: The Example of Sweden'']. In ''Journal of Conflict and Violence Research'', Volume 2, 2000

{{Swedish nationalism and fascism}}

[[Category:1979 establishments in Sweden]]
[[Category:1986 disestablishments in Sweden]]
[[Category:Anti-communist organizations in Sweden]]
[[Category:Anti-black racism in Europe]]
[[Category:Anti-immigration politics in Europe]]
[[Category:Far-right politics in Sweden]]
[[Category:Organizations disestablished in 1986]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1979]]
[[Category:Political catchphrases]]
[[Category:Political movements in Sweden]]
[[Category:Racism in Sweden]]
[[Category:Sweden Democrats]]
[[Category:Swedish nationalism]]
[[Category:Fascism in Sweden]]