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There's at least one angry Swede out there:

 

A Swedish paper has apologised to Red Bull Salzburg for an article putting the Austrian club in the same bracket as Adolf Hitler and Josef Fritzl, the man who held his daughter imprisoned in his cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her.

 

Red Bull Salzburg face the Swedish side Malmo in the Champions League play-offs on Tuesday night and the Aftonbladet journalist Ronnie Sandahl started his piece on the Austrian champions with the following sentences: “Austria has not only given us Josef Fritzl and Adolf Hitler. There is also Red Bull Salzburg, the most hated football club of our time.”

 

Sandahl added: “When they play each other in the two decisive Champions League games people from all over the world will be support the Swedes.”

 


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There's at least one angry Swede out there:

 

 

Using Hitler as a point of comparison is extremely poor judgement and is offensive. No way does messing up a football team even remotely compare in absolute evil to causing the untimely deaths of 12 million people, and massive, massive destruction and suffering.



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Yeah, there were a couple times when I wondered if we went too far criticizing RB, but at no point did "Dietrich = Hitler" ever enter our minds. Not only that, it's a pretty brazen attack on Austrians in general. Besides, everyone knows "the most hated club of our time" is D.C. United.

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