content: So, it seems that it is a deliberate effort to regulate a controlled economy. I guess the destruction of such artifacts in an attempt to erase a ethnic group's history and culture is just a bonus. The problem with those in power is they are so short-sighted, only thinking of their own lifetime. An "underground" economy is not so bad in the long-run, stimulating the official economy. But, all the elite think about is tomorrow and how their missing-out on those sweet taxable kronor.