{"id":31767,"date":"2021-12-15T13:43:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31767"},"modified":"2021-12-15T13:43:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:43:22","slug":"promoting-marksmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31767","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Marksmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sweden in 1941 had Nazi-occupied Norway on one side, Nazi-allied (through mutual hatred of the Soviet Union) Finland on the other, and Nazi Germany itself across the Baltic Sea. It was hard being a neutral nation in the midst of all of that. Like the Swiss, the Swedes believed in armed neutrality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1941 Swedish propaganda poster below is promoting marksmanship. The wording translates as &#8220;shooting skills increase the defense force.&#8221; Both the civilian and the soldier are firing what appears to be a Model 96 Swedish Mauser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/kid3sh6sdl581.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/kid3sh6sdl581.jpg 510w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/kid3sh6sdl581-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden in 1941 had Nazi-occupied Norway on one side, Nazi-allied (through mutual hatred of the Soviet Union) Finland on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2857,1304,5888,5882],"class_list":["post-31767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marksmanship","tag-propaganda-posters","tag-sweden","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31771,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31767\/revisions\/31771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}