AHC: Have Sweden join NATO with Finland Not Going Communist

How could Sweden join NATO without Finland going communist? Is it possible after 1955?

Bonus points also if you could add Ireland and Switzerland.
 
Sweden was already effectively a part of NATO. They realized their neutrality would mean jack shit in a war so they pretty much always planned on coordinating with NATO.
 
I mean by paper, all-out, in all legality, they join NATO, not the secret NATO alignment/ false neutrality of OTL. They join NATO without a World War III, anything I can call it. They openly announce they join NATO and they do.
 
there's not much secret about Swedens general alignment with NATO. If the political enviroment was there internally in Sweden, then they could easily have joined up around the Soviet collapse. From what i can tell only reasons they didn't do it at that point was internal issues, at least partially to do with the fact that Sweden is one of the major Arms exporters, and concerns that a membership would somehow 'cramp their style'.
 
Why would the Finns go Red if Sweden joins Nato? The Finns were scared shitless of the Soviets after the Second World War and were effectively neutered by Soviet threats.
 
What he meant by that is that if Finland goes red, Sweden joins NATO, almost no question about it.
 
Why would the Finns go Red if Sweden joins Nato? The Finns were scared shitless of the Soviets after the Second World War and were effectively neutered by Soviet threats.
What he means is that if Finland doesn't get conquered by the USSR or forced to install a communist government there,is there any way Sweden could have officially joined NATO.
 
Have the Germans making Norway into a redoubt and refusing to surrender there, triggering the planned Swedish invasion of Norway late Spring/Early Summer 1945.

If you add the Soviets being more reluctant about leaving Bornholm and Finnmark, perhaps staying a few years, and Sweden could probably form the planned Nordic Defence Union with Denmark and Norway and attach it to NATO.
 
Why would the Finns go Red if Sweden joins Nato? The Finns were scared shitless of the Soviets after the Second World War and were effectively neutered by Soviet threats.

Finland wouldn't go necessarily Red but there are other ways how the Soviets could deepen their influence here, like common military exercises or even more openly deciding who could take seats in the government. One of the main reasons why the Soviets didn't do that was the fear that it would lead Sweden becoming even more openly pro-NATO, or even joining it. IOTL there existed a certain kind of balance in Northern Europe with Sweden being pro-western neutral and Finland pro-eastern neutral. If Sweden joins the NATO, the Soviets don't have to care about that issue any more and they have more freedom to act in Finland.
 
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