Sweden long rejected militarism, even offering government funding to peace movements. Yet since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the political mood has changed abruptly, with a witch hunt launched against activists who oppose the country’s embrace of NATO.

At the Museum of Work in Norrköping, a hundred miles south of Stockholm, an exhibition on Swedish Cartoonists’ Protest Against NATO offers a satirical take on the one-sided debate that greeted Sweden’s rapid accession to the military alliance.

The NATO-critical exhibition occupies an entire museum floor, where large windows overlook the dramatic falls of Motala Stream. This river system links the city to Sweden’s second-largest lake, Vättern. Conversely, Sweden’s official entrance into NATO on March 7, 2024, leads nowhere — except toward

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