"I shall be waiting for you. You know that when you come home, weary, with blood on your hands, I shall be waiting there among the birches. You will rest your head in my lap, and I shall kiss your burning forehead and wash the blood from you. I shall be waiting, and I shall love you."
ok i'm actually so fucking tired of how people view Sabaton.
Sabaton, as a band, has their songs focused around the stories (and often heroism) of individual soldiers and sometimes major battles or events. They take a "there's heroes everywhere" approach to this, where deaths are deaths, regardless which side they're on. Is this a perfect approach? No, and it's given them a shitty fanbase.
Sabaton isn't pro-fascist, and it isn't even pro-war. Joakim could literally go on the mic and scream "War is hell, there is no glamour to it, but some soldiers have managed to make the best out of a horrible situation" and their fans would still think they're the cool edgy pro-war band they want them to be. I know this because of the song "Great War", one of their biggest hits, literally says that.