Bevara Sverige Svenskt was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 racist movement based in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 and is a slogan used by various Swedish nationalist parties. The stated objective of the BSS movement, and the aim of the slogan, was to initiate a debate in order to stop immigration

Immigration

Immigration is the act of foreigners passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence...

 by non-Europe

Europe

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ans and repatriate

Repatriation

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 non-ethnic Swedes. Inspiration came from the post-WW2 nazi organisation Nysvenska rörelsen created by Per Engdahl

Per Engdahl

Per Claes Sven Edvard Engdahl was a leading Swedish far right politician. He was the leader of Sveriges Fascistiska Kamporganisation, SFKO during the 1920's.-Career:...

.

Founded as a loosely coupled network in 1979 by Leif Zeilon

Leif Zeilon

Leif Zeilon is a Swedish politician, and is one one of the founders of the Sweden Democrats and Bevara Sverige Svenskt.During the 1970s he was active in Demokratisk Allians , which was a reaction to the communist demonstrations for a North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam...

, and formalized as an organization in 1983, BSS was involved with the populist

Populism

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 Progress Party

Progress Party (Sweden)

The Progress Party was a minor Swedish populist political party that existed in various forms from 1968 to the 2000s, when local parties merged with the Sweden Democrats, or developed into distinct local parties. It was based mostly in Scania, although it at times had active local chapters other...

  in 1986. This co-operation took place under the name Sweden Party

Sweden Party

Sweden Party was a political party in Sweden. It was founded in 1986 through the merger of Bevara Sverige Svenskt and the Progress Party. The leader of the party was Stefan Herrmann, formerly the leader of the Progress Party....

 . This cooperation evolved into the Sweden Democrats

Sweden Democrats

The Sweden Democrats is a political party in Sweden, founded in 1988. SD describes itself as a nationalist movement although others use the term far-right. Since 2005, its party chairman is Jimmie Åkesson, while Björn Söder is the party secretary and parliamentary group leader. An Anemone...

  (SD) in 1988.

Claiming not to be racists, their often aggressive sticker campaigns arguably spoke a different language with slogan

Slogan

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s such as "Låt inte din dotter bli en negerleksak" (Don't let your daughter become a negro

Negro

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toy) and "Negrer hotar sina offer" (Negros threaten their victims).

Although the number of members was comparatively small, BSS represented the first organized attempt to reduce immigration and as a result received massive media attention.

The slogan "Keep Sweden Swedish" was taken on by the Sweden Democrats and became prevalent during 2003-2004, when it was used for headlines in the party newspaper "SD Kuriren" and as slogans on bumper stickers.