Why Sweden is encouraging citizens to become preppers.

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[Music] tonight on Dateline one of the world's most peaceful countries preparing for the worst so these are all canned goods they have like a quarter of a ton of rice 42 kilos of ravioli what are they prepping for terrorist attack school shooting or and could their fees be more real than we think you can't depend on the government to bring you food or get your water you have to do it yourself a spear is very clear and you can drink it it's the old Cold War all over again [Music] [Music] in Sweden they say only dead fish follow the stream it's a warning against mindlessly copying others and one small reason why in the quiet town of buck WA this house looks a little different [Music] you excuse a commoner walk never had don't have them no more brands like a nothing I'm 48 year old lots of Delaney is is a nurse and single mum who wants her family to be prepared Oh son musta knee a refreshed on Monday most yeah I didn't alarm I select yeah mmm call her something in he knows that gonna freak check the knock so cancer she's part of a growing movement of Swedes who called themselves Preppers I've been prepping for about four years a prepper is one who takes care of themselves and make sure that we can survive if some crisis comes you need light you need to prepare your meals lotta isn't just preparing for blackouts or storms we've got knife scissors she's also preparing for armed conflict and her readiness is supported by the government and we also have this of course which contains all the vital information that you need to know it says if the crisis or war is coming really because it's what's it's about it tells you what you need to prepare how much food you need to have at home why do you have to be a prepper essentially this came last year thing to everyone every household in Sweden really good preppers are often viewed as god-fearing outliers predicting the end of the world but in this Nordic nation a neighboring threat is helping the movement go mainstream I can see that the Russian threat has increased the last few years just look at Ukraine which is a European country who has been invaded it's a game going on who's gonna threat you so yeah we have to be on the lookout and be prepared I've nearly escaped from the unit is for a gourmet little despondent Swedes have been bombarded by news about Moscow since Russia occupied eastern Ukraine in 2014 when tonight's canal fuck them sex Minister Don Costa Luna it's got an enriched Camarena pulla rupiah from suspicious submarines bond immersive opposite Lonnegan in area than film Adam - sauna expect us on TV ronnie has an approach thought me a better man today so soon stupid Ana senility a new port the planes in its airspace opponent Kaliningrad or prominent work for Posse arrow stance Kalam Portman and the Narmada most memory of great swing your own Paseos a new home do a repo be determined a beautiful Russian military activity has Sweden spooked valeria popularity restructure corner man economics about cameras be open and expect respect earlier an opening at fallen Canada are not so their escape love some but it's more than just a perceived threat Sweden's own defense research agency has made a shocking announcement so Johan you recently published a report looking at Russia's military activity what did it find my conclusion was that Russia is preparing its own forces for a large-scale war and in the Russian contacts that pertains basically to war over continental and so how is it different to say their activities over the last five or ten years Russia has used its Armed Forces more selectively in Donbass is in Ukraine and Crimea George on Syria but these exercises tell the different stories the whole military machinery so you're on you can really see just how close Russia is to Sweden when you look at this map this distance I think is about some 300 kilometers across the Baltic Sea this is actually Kaliningrad Russia an exclave the main part of the brothers Baltic Fleet for the Baltic Sea is in here reading through hundreds of Kremlin press statements Johan Norberg has noticed a frightening buildup of Russian military exercises involving troops tanks and aircrafts on its home turf I can see that the number of forces actually participating is picking up just imagine 300,000 soldiers all levels all branches or services doing things at the same time for the same purpose just get it all to work is a major challenge how serious then is the threat of Russia to Sweden's homeland defence and security a threat even entails an intention and a capability I don't study Russia's political intention so what what they want to do I don't know but I can see the capabilities they build that is worrying because they build the capabilities we don't know exactly when and how and against whom they going to use it this feeling that Sweden is increasingly vulnerable is why many Preppers are learning old skills to survive six hours north of her home in buck WA in the middle of the Swedish wilderness Lata is bugging out so here is our bug out location it's a place where you can go if shit hits the fan and it's completely off grid so this is our second location and we have a third location as well here water is testing her ability to stay alive so I have just an old broomstick really yep cut it off drill a hole put a spike and some string and there you go so you put around your neck and if you fall into the water you can just pull yourself up hmm why is it so important to know how to improvise as a prepper you have to be able to make sure you're safe and if you can't go to the store to buy stuff you have to make it yourself getting back to basics is a key part of prepping to survive out here lotta lives by a simple motto improvise adapt overcome a lot of skills has gone lost in the recent years when I grew up we were always like in the woods fishing and stuff kids nowadays they they stayed worse and they play their online games and maybe those skills is obsolete when there is no electricity or internet she's almost completely self-sufficient with water from the stream and fish from a frozen lake we have to go on the ice where the Sun hasn't shined all day so we'll try to go out here I think I think I'm gonna think back for a moment here just pretty thick lattes learning to problem-solve because she knows living through a disaster is a completely unscripted experience [Music] you make prepping look a lot like fun look but it actually is quite serious isn't it yeah of course it's a more serious side to it there is a possibility of armed conflict in our area of the world and the prepping that I do it's is to make sure that my kids have the things they need if I'm not there to take care of them if war was to come do you trust your government to provide and look after you I think they will do what they can but right now we don't have enough facilities knowledge or the organization to do that so right now no you have to prep yourself and have all the things that you need nothing today I'm told one reason Preppers feel vulnerable is because an old military strategy once pioneered by Sweden today lies in tatters known as total defence it insured being prepared was part of the national psyche you wouldn't know it from the outside but beneath this Street is a giant bomb shelter [Music] big conference what welcome to the shelter the places been standing long time without to insulation so it's the area should be yeah you can really smell them all down here built in the 1950s these bunkers are relics of the Cold War when the entire country is prepared for an attack enough of them were built to protect the entire Swedish population at the time around 8 million Swedes for the moment happens below Kadir in tabasum not even for photography earring for madhuri Oscar - once state-of-the-art the government even spooked this bunker in films at the time airfields and for classic theater scene for ammeter as a place to leave watch movies even exercise school infirmary yeah Bay it's taught how to fuck them hair back no you must eat solemn formally and I stole their evidence but in the early 2000s Sweden flashed defense spending and like much of total defence these bunkers fell into disrepair June 30 year was very michelada as tourists or now Sweden's government is bringing total defense back for the first time in more than half a century it's like had a stock but had a debt that you thought fucked on the consequences Christina Anderson is from a civil emergency agency whose entire job is preparing society for crisis we are putting several different questions about what can happen how can it affect your daily life and how can you prepare to handle a crisis as good as possible today she's teaching a generation who've only ever known a piece to imagine we are putting more effort into our total defense that means to the whole society to be prepared to handle heightened alert or the threat of war from government agencies to local municipalities but also individuals and you actually wrote the booklet that was distributed yeah we distributed these two 4.8 million households in Sweden last year this booklet is a pretty scary thing to receive in the mail with people afraid when they safety yes but at the same time I think that this is important social information that each people living sweet and need to have okay so what have you listed here's your main concerns terrorist attack school shooting war and natural natural disasters war really common era shooters members the government is hoping this new generation won't just prep but act yeah your quarterly 500 kilometers south of Stockholm I've been invited to see military training for Sweden's Home Guard like Australia's reserves it's made up entirely of civilian volunteers among them is lotta well this is one of the yearly exercises for the Home Guard that we do at least twice a year so we're gonna sharpen our will and strength to defend the country the Home Guard is half of Sweden's entire defense force so it relies heavily on these civilians overseeing their training is Lieutenant Colonel pair attic whose witness the military diminish over the past 30 days the enforcement was quite duty and then we have been producing times from 700,000 to be now 50,000 people in the armed forces including the home world and it's not enough if something should happen to Sweden the big picture mission is to help them ready if something should happen well-trained and filled up you know to 100% while some volunteers trained in military combat lotta a trained nurse tests others in emergency first aid we have been naive people thought that oh nothing's gonna happen to us we're safe and then we lost all that knowledge [Music] we also ordered a order not their implement our stove and at Weber number lungs but everything in addicted or miss that order some other happens there's clearly still a lot to learn but today is just a simulation sorry Victor to their server in Gorham in their own licks on sauce maybe he thought what happens that every bird I'm gonna soothe the broth before I leave I asked the lieutenant colonel if he thinks they're prepared if Ward did come tomorrow how do you think he would go well tomorrow we are not so many we will do and try to do our best but also to to get other countries to come and help us that's for sure we are very vulnerable and so that's something it discussed quite a lot in the last year's while the Lieutenant Colonel says they would call on neighboring countries for help Sweden still isn't part of any formal alliances but back in Stockholm this isn't something the country's defense minister is concerned about would you like to see Sweden sign NATO we are a non-aligned nation and we will be non-elimination and I think that is the best for the stability in our portal of Europe how serious a threat is Russia to Sweden's security I think the realities are very clear you have this aggression to you here 2008 you have this annexation of Crimea against international law and regulations you have this war going on in Ukraine you have a Russian leadership that are ready to use military power to fulfill political goals I concerned I don't see it is necessary to invest and have a new strategy for foreign defense forces in Sweden to invest in upgrading or national capability and deepening the cooperation with others and the most critical decision we have taken is to reactivate conscription service in Sweden and we have that since first again or a 2018 what do you say then to citizens who are concerned that that you aren't doing enough you build military capability step by step it takes a long time we must now a huge amount of money in military investments so I feel when I meet people that we have a real support for the governmental position and what we are doing today [Music] Sweden's military spending is actually at a historic low it's only 1% of GDP which is less than NATO recommends so government moves to revive total defense a cold comfort for many Preppers back in the north I'm meeting one prepper who's taking radical steps to move permanently off-grid hi andreas welcome nice to meet you you too oh I feel like I'm entering Nonya right now well you are what you are one of seven people who knows this place really yeah okay I understand that Perth is cute they bug out it's pretty anonymous yeah why is that yeah well mostly because you don't want unwanted visitors during a crisis I did some extensive research when I'm before I bought this place they're looking at population density and what roads led to this place and did not lead to this place so it's off the beaten track so to speak I also did check up on military targets around the areas I was looking for and to be safe from well bombs and such well this is part of my food storage so these are all canned goods and some dry stuff bulan special sausage which is a huge divider in the prepper community of sweden depending on if you like it or hate it most people hate it I suppose but I don't I tend to only prep things that I likely it's useless to prep things that you don't like I mean what's the point of eating food you don't like when things are going to hell in a handbasket [Music] unlike Lata andreas has been prepping for more than a decade prompted by the 2008 financial crisis he now has enough food hidden around this cabin to help him survive out here for two years even though we see signs that things are taking a turn for the worse we don't act we just talk and I can't trust the government to take care of me as it stands all now well I got everything on this list actually that I have in my storage so for starters I have like a quarter of a ton of rice that's around 900 thousand calories forty kilos of sugar I have 42 kilos of ravioli ideally I would like to have the double amount of foodstuffs that I have now so let's say four years then I would feel a bit more on the safe side so I I have a bit more work to do [Music] what's on the menu for tonight rice well it's pea soup and hard bread yeah I know it looks a bit gross but will be fine when it's done I promise an extraordinary amount of thought has gone into every inch of this cabin it's a remarkable achievement in self-sufficiency Wow how long can this last for Andre's five six years perhaps but andreas knows not everyone sees it that way yet right now we are in the state of flux or a change in Sweden though most people that are not prepared well they have a journey to make so to speak so what would you say then to people who still think prepping is a little bit crazy I encourage people to look at the real world around them because Sweden is not a bubble isolated in the world look at what happened in Sarajevo when the formal Republic of Yugoslavia look at what happened in Syria look at all the civil wars that you have throughout history look at Venezuela Brazil Argentina I mean I can just keep on going so things can happen and they can happen here as well so learn from history should people be scared no definitely not never be scared that's counterproductive just eight pay soot eat pea soup and be happy [Music] staring down the worst-case scenario perhaps there's a certain courage to what Andreas and Lotter do far from crazy it's even a little admirable what if war and the worst thing never happens that's great if it doesn't happen at least I will know that I had the ability to support myself and my loved ones and knowing that that's a great feeling will you be disappointed no they are the way around I will be very happy isn't that what we all want to live in peace [Music] you

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Channel: SBS Dateline

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Length: 27min 25sec (1645 seconds)

Published: Tue May 28 2019

Reddit Comments

Någonting säger mig att Lottas ex inte var en en prepper.

👍︎︎ 6 👤︎︎ u/Sexsellz 📅︎︎ May 30 2019 🗫︎ replies

Vad är det för nyckelharpa eller fiol som spelar i bakgrunden runt första minuten?

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/BatusWelm 📅︎︎ May 30 2019 🗫︎ replies

Alltid fascinerande när man inser att folk utanför Europa aldrig har tittat på kartan och ser hur nära det är mellan Sverige och Ryssland. Och likaledes fascinerande att se alla jävla värdelösa rysstroll i kommentarsfältet till videon.