Johansson foresaw a great war preceded by these signs: it would be summer in northern Sweden; new terrifying weapons would appear; a socialist government would rule Sweden at the war's outbreak; there would be conflict in Ireland; and there would be no snow on the Norwegian mountains. In the war: Russia conquers Persia and Turkey; China conquers India and Britain loses its power permanently; biological warfare kills some 25 million; Russia takes the Balkans and red armies sweep through Hungary, Austria and northern Italy toward France; France is conquered from within and without; Germany is attacked from the east, suffers civil war, but regains its freedom; Finland is invaded and suppressed; Russians and French invade Scandinavia, Gothenburg falling to the French; both Scandinavian kingdoms lose the war and cede their northern provinces to Russia; England and all the Baltic lands are destroyed by a terrible storm and parts of Scotland sink into the sea; the British currency collapses and the colonies are lost; the United States, threatened by five wars after 1907, fragments into four or five parts. 'One quarter of all humanity falls victim to this war.'