Quite a few things in here that needs an explanation.
America loves to meddle in other countries affairs, despite knowing very little about the countries.
Doing World War 2 the Swedes let Germany walk through Sweden, which allowed them to invade Norway.
That pissed Norway off quite a bit, and for many years after that it was custom for Danes, if they were having a party where both a Swede and a Norwegian would show up, to never place them at the same table or anywhere near each other, because otherwise they were sure to start fighting.
Poland is wearing a burglar’s bask because if anything is stolen in Scandinavia, it will most likely turn up in Poland. Not necessarily because it was a Pole who stole the thing in the first place, but because that’s where a lot of people go to get rid of their stolen goods.
As an American, I can attest to the accuracy of America's portrayal here. Our government (and most of the people who elect said government) just LOVE to meddle. And yet those same people have absolutely NO IDEA what they're doing.
Yeah, our king back then even said
"Norway will never forgive you!" He was quite mad XD
He got even more pissed off when Sweden didn't want to let the king travel threw Sweden to get to a safer place when Oslo was invaded.
England took our king and his family with open arms, so yeah, thats why we every year give them the biggest christmas tree we can find as a gift for that
I thought it was meant to be a reference to this other big gaffe from the Cold War era, where the American president accidentally told a bunch of Polish people that he wanted to make love to them. The translator got fired.
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