Det Bästa

Det Bästa was first published in March 1943 and is affiliated with the American magazine Reader's Digest.^[3] Barclay Acheson, director of the international editions of Reader's Digest, involved in the establishment of the magazine in Sweden.^[4] Det Bästa comes out monthly^[5] and is headquartered in Stockholm.^[2] Its publisher was Reader's Digest AB between 1989 and 1998 when the company was renamed as Det Beste AB.^[2]

Det Bästa is a news and general interest digest.^[6] The magazine had covered materials from its parent publication, Reader's Digest, until 2008 when it was redesigned to expand its content.^[7] Its editor-in-chief was Anna-Karin Rabe during this period.^[7]

During the Cold War period the Finnish-Soviet Union Association claimed that both Det Bästa and Valitut Palat, Finnish edition of Reader's Digest, were two major anti-Soviet propaganda tools in Finland.^[8]

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