Anton Nilson
Anton Nilson (born November 11, 1887 in Norra Sandby , Skåne , † August 16, 1989 in Stockholm - Enskede ) was a Swedish socialist .
In 1908 he was sentenced to death for a bomb attack with one dead and 23 injured on the ship Amalthea , on which British strikebreakers were housed in the port of Malmö . However, the sentence was changed to life-long forced labor before it was enforced. Over the years, the case attracted great attention, especially in the labor movement , also internationally. On May 1, 1917, an attempt by 10,000 workers to free Nilson from prison in Härnösand could only be thwarted by a military operation.
In October 1917, Nilson was pardoned and immediately traveled to Russia after the October Revolution . For the Red Army he was a pilot in the Russian Civil War 1918–1920, but also a consultant for civil aviation. He was committed to establishing flight connections to Sweden and purchasing aviation equipment from various European countries. After the war he stayed in the Soviet Union as a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . In 1926, with the rise of Stalinism in the Soviet Union, he returned to Sweden, but remained politically active in the left-wing party spectrum.
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| SURNAME | Nilson, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish pilot and communist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norra Sandby, Hässleholm, Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1989 |
| Place of death | Stockholm , Sweden |