He collected Eastern Bloc memorabilia, and in the '80s, he was a member of the Norwegian communist youth group Rød Ungdom, which was Marxist-Leninist at the time.
Skupljao je suvenire istočnog bloka te je tijekom 1980-ih bio član norveške komunističke omladinske grupe Rød Ungdom, koja je u to vrijeme bila marksističko-lenjinistička.