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Carl Gustaf reveals that Urho Kekkonen was a mentor to the king: "He radiated a sense of security"
Carl Gustaf says that the President of Finland was called Uncle Kekki, "Farbror-Kekki", in the royal family.
Charles XVI Gustav lost his father, Prince Gustav Adolf (1906–1947), as a child. The father died in a tragic plane crash.
Young Charles is said to have found a one-man model of Finland's charismatic president, Urho Kekkonen (1900–1986). A year ago, in a rare interview with the Finnish-language editorial board of the Swedish broadcaster SVT, Carl Gustav recalled his warm relationship with Kekkonen. The king said that the eighth president of Finland “radiated a sense of security” and taught him a lot.
- He often visited here in Sweden on different occasions, including various occasions of our family, happy and sad. He became a character in a positive sense, and we called him Uncle Kekki in our family. It was not the president who came to the visit, but the “Farbror Kekki,” the king said in an interview.
UKK introduced the prince to wilderness life
During Kekkonen's 25-year presidency, Carl Gustaf had time to meet the President several times, first as a crown prince, then as a reigning king.
Kekkonen diligently introduced the young Swedish prince to, among other things, wilderness life, and in 1970, for example, Carl Gustaf, then 24 years old, arrived in Lapland to ice fishing in the company of our 70-year-old head of state. According to the photos, the Crown Prince had a hand in plaster and too thin clothes on, but after the ice fishing trip, the duo were photographed relaxingly frying pancakes in open fire.
Four years later, Carl Gustaf traveled to Finland for his first state visit as king after he had inherited the crown the previous year after the death of his grandfather, Gustav VI Adolf. Against him was again the familiar, warm-hearted Uncle Kekki, whose relations with Russia made an indelible impression on the young crown head in the world political situation marked by the Cold War.
- He had incredibly good relations with your neighbors, good contacts with the Kremlin. He was able to use them to convey contacts, we here in Sweden also benefited from them. It was a mutual political exchange, very exciting, Carl Gustaf reminded SVT.
Positive impact on state relations
Kari Lumikero, MTV's news correspondent, who followed the events in the Swedish court for a long time, has estimated that the warm relationship between Kekkonen and Carl Gustaf also radiated positively to state relations.
- In addition to the fact that the king liked Kekkonen very much, he took on a certain kind of good relations with Finland during the duo's joint hunting and fishing trips. It has survived all these years.
The king himself told SVT that he had made state visits to Finland during our five presidents.
- They are always interesting and contain joyful reunions. There are old acquaintances and friends who I have come to know in Finland for a long time.
Now here's the interesting part, the man you hate so much, is also the main man behind your precious pakkoruotsi. He did it because temporal insanity, as he was banging and tingling some Swedish bird at the time:
Kekkonen influenced the arrival of compulsory Swedish in Finnish schools
During his schooling, Kekkonen did little to learn foreign languages, and in his high school diploma he had poor grades in Swedish, German, Russian and Latin. Born in the Grand Duchy of Russia, the young man opposed “forced Russia” apparently for political reasons typical of the time. The proponent of aitosuomaisuus (genuine Finnish) was not interested in the Swedish language either.
Later, Kekkonen's aitosuomalaisuus diminished. He had to use Swedish when starting his career, and he was willing to improve his language skills. The president is said to have received private tuition in the 1950s and 1960s from Swedish-language journalist Anne-Marie Snellman. Kekkonen was also associated with Snellman in a romantic sense.
Kekkonen certainly spoke Swedish with Carl Gustaf. Already in the 1960s, the President's statements influenced the fact that the Swedish language became a compulsory elementary school subject for everyone in Finland.
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