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''Politiken'' was launched in 1916, first issue published on April 27 that year, by the left-wing of the Swedish Social Democratic Party . The left-wing was expelled from the Party in the summer of 1917, and the Social Democratic Left, under the leadership of Zeth Höglund and Ture Nerman , became the Communist Party Of Sweden , strongly supporting the Russia October Revolution and the Bolsheviks . ''Politiken'' also published many texts by international communist leaders. ''Politiken'' was first published two, later three times a week, but became a daily paper in 1917 and reached its peak in circulation in the early 1930s with approx. 30.000 issues printed every weekday. When the Communist Party split in 1929, ''Folkets Dagblad – Politiken'' was taken over by the Kilbom-Flyg Faction . Over the years, the policies of ''Politiken'' changed and in the hands of Nils Flyg , ''Folkets Dagblad – Politiken'' slowly turned into a pro- German paper and by the end gave full political support for the Germans in World War II . The last issue was published on August 30, 1940. Editors were:
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