Scary facts

A recent study in Sweden shows that Swedish teens aged 15-20 hardly does not know anything about communism.

• 95% know about Auschwitz, but 90% do not know what Gulag was.
  
  
• 90% do not know which foreign capital is the closet to Stockholm.
  
  
• 50% do not know that Berlin is the capital of a country neighbouring the Baltic Sea.
  
  
• 82% do not believe that Belarus is a dictatorship.
  
  
• 56% said, "don’t know" when asked if societies based on market economy is a democracy.
  
  
• 43% think that communism killed fewer than one million (a fifth think it killed fewer than 10 000).
  
  
• 40% believe that communism has increased global wealth.
  
  
• 22% believe communism is a democratic form of government.

Maybe I’m just getting old, but to me this is total ignorance for what only happen 20 years ago in countries next to us. And by not knowing history it is very likely that some day it will be repeated again.