Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:04:58 +0200 (MET DST)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: Swedish public opinion on China, 1962-1982


Swedish public opinion on China, 1962-1982 [Posted: 16.10.96]

Hello Generals with or without quotation marks!

Concerning the question of the Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution in China 1966-1976, the revisionist overthrow of 
socialism in that country in 1976/78 and what people here
in Sweden thought about these things, I bring without
further comment a table on:

The *number of members* of the (non-party-political) 
*Swedish-Chinese Friendship Association* (SKVF,
of which I was a member between '74 and '82) 
in the respective years from 1962 to 1982 
(approximate figures, according to SKVF statistics):

1962:    500
1963:    500
1964:    500
1965:    500
1966:    500
1967:    500
1968:    500
1969:   1000
1970:   1500
1971:   2000
1972:   3000
1973:   4000
1974:   5000
1975:   7500
1976:   9500
1977:   9500
1978:   8500
1979:   8000
1980:   6500
1981:   5000
1982:   4000

Rolf M.