During Cold War era politics , Sweden was not under the Warsaw Pact and received only minimal aid from the Marshall Plan . In 1952 , a Swedish DC-3 was shot down over the Baltic Sea while gathering reconnaissance . It was later revealed that the plane had been shot down by the Soviet Union . Another plane , a Catalina search and rescue craft , was sent out a few days later and shot down by Soviets warplanes as well
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