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The Bob Cesca Podcast: The Mueller Report

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Captain Magic4/19/2019 1:09:10 pm PDT

re: #31 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Wikipedia on the purse wielder.

A Woman Hitting a Neo-Nazi With Her Handbag (Swedish: Kvinnan med handväskan, lit. “The woman with the handbag”) is a photograph taken in Växjö, Sweden on 13 April 1985 by Hans Runesson. It depicts a 38-year-old woman hitting a marching neo-nazi with a handbag. The photograph was taken during a demonstration of the Nordic Reich Party supporters. It was published in the next day’s Dagens Nyheter and a day later in some British newspapers and sparked a discussion in Sweden about “violence unleashed against innocent demonstrators.”

Runesson’s photograph was selected as the Swedish Picture of the Year (Årets bild) 1985 and later as the Picture of the Century by the magazine Vi and the Photographic Historical Society of Sweden.[1]

The woman in the photograph is Danuta Danielsson (1947-1988) She was of Polish-Jewish origin and her mother had been in a German concentration camp during World War II.[1] The photograph and its publication caused Danielsson to seclude herself in her home, and in time she suffered a severe psychological crisis that eventually led her to end her life in 1988.

The name of the neo-Nazi hit by Danielsson was Seppo Seluska, a militant from the Nordic Reich Party. Later that year he was convicted of murder after torturing and murdering a homosexual Jewish man.

In 2014, the Swedish sculptor Susanna Arwin made a miniature statue of Danielsson based on the photograph.[2] There was an initiative to erect a life-size bronze version of Arwin’s statue in the city of Växjö,[3] but the project was blocked by local politicians of the Centre Party believing that such a statue might promote violence;[4] a city councillor also stated that one of Danielsson’s heirs had objected to her being remembered that way.[5][not in citation given]

The photograph was produced using gelatin silver process and editioned by gallerist Pelle Unger.[6] Twelve copies, three AP and three PP has been produced in the size 58 by 80 centimetres (23 in × 31 in) and price ranges between €3000-6000.