I came across these resources while doing some research on Cold War Soviet strategy re nominally neutral Finland and Sweden.
https://www.marines.mil/portals/1/Pu...-11-163241-220
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/ran...2007/R3776.pdf
An assessment of Soviet military intentions re Sweden during the last two decades of the Cold War begins on p. 42 (p. 56 of the PDF).
Both studies conclude that the Soviets had strategic motives for mounting a preemptive strike against either or both neutral Scandinavian countries in the event of an imminent, wider European war v. NATO.
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