# A Socialist Government in Denmark

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/a-socialist-government-in-denmark/
- Published: 1924-06-08T19:05:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T21:03:03+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/sacyjalistychny-urad-u-danii.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/sotsialistichyeskoye-pravityelstvo-v-danii.md

> In Denmark, after the bankruptcy of the National Liberals, power has been taken by the socialists led by Stauning. The author considers it a sign of the times that the peasants have entrusted it to a Marxist party.

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In Denmark, after the complete bankruptcy, and even personal discrediting, of the government of the National Liberals and Radicals, the new elections gave the socialists a majority in parliament, admittedly a small one (2 votes), and the king was compelled to charge the well-known Danish socialist Stauning with forming a cabinet. It is very interesting for us that Denmark, like Belarus, is a land that is almost exclusively peasant, and this trust of the peasantry in a socialist, Marxist party is a quite new phenomenon, a significant sign of the times.

The new prime minister has declared that his programme consists of a few words: through democracy to socialism. Foremost are the matters of raising the well-being of the working masses and the productivity of the country.