Presumably Sweden was terrified that the Soviets would move against them next; and the Swedish ambassador more or less told Stalin
that they were not concerned about Wallenberg. Stalin then took a piece of paper about Wallenberg off the table and stuck it in his pocket, and that was that.
“” “” Presumably Sweden was terrified that the Soviets would move against them next; and the Swedish ambassador more or less told Stalin
that they were not concerned about Wallenberg. Stalin then took a piece of paper about Wallenberg off the table and stuck it in his pocket, and that was that.”” “”
Sweden was already heavily socialist at the time. It was a waste of effort for Stalin to invade and convert them. In USSR they had a multi-tier system of perception of foreign societies based on their attitude towards socialism and foreign policy. Basically more socialism and less American ties (or more anti-Americanism) made overall ‘capitalist’ country a good guy.
In that sense Finland was a model ‘good’ Western country for the Soviets. Sweden and France were very close meaning the Soviet citizens were rather easily (well adjusting to Soviet terms) allowed to travel there as tourists.