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Monument to the "Osvald group" outside Oslo central station. Communist partisans who were sidelined in the post-war narrative.
Monument bears the quote by Å. Sunde: "It was worth it to fight for liberty - for all countries, for all races, for all classes and for all mankind."
Monument bears the quote by Å. Sunde: "It was worth it to fight for liberty - for all countries, for all races, for all classes and for all mankind."
Åsbjørn Sunde led the saboteurs under his cover name "Osvald." They were the first, and most active non-military organized partisan group in the Norwegian resistance of WW2.
The Osvald Group's efforts were only officially recognized by the government in 2013, and the monument was unveiled on May 1st in 2015.
I editorialized the translation of the quote, the last bit can be translated as "For all people" or "For all humans" but "For all mankind" sounds a lot better.
I've tweeted about this before I think, but it's an interesting story and I have a lot more followers now.
Åsbjørn Sunde was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 1954 for spying for the Soviet Union.
People (mostly on the political right) were VERY annoying about this monument.
Asbjørn* remind me to not post when I've slept for ~8 hours over the past 48.
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