Baltic population deported to Siberia and Central Asia by Stalin after WW2

[Bukabuck]

After annexation of Baltic states by Soviet Union, Stalin deported a lot of people to Siberia and other places of the USSR. But let's imagine that Stalin decided to deport native population of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian populations in the late 1940s since they were mostly collaborated with Germans and made sabotage against government after the war(Forest brothers). Lithuania became part of Belorussian SSR. Latvia and Estonia became Latgalian, Livonian, Kurland and Estlyand oblasts of Russian SFSR. Khrushchev decided to restore Lithuanian SSR, but Estonia and Latvia were never restored. In 1991 USSR was collapsed. Estonia and Latvia are oblasts of Russian Federation. What would happen?

 

[BlackDragon98]

We have an OTL example, the Chechen people.
Outnumbered in terms of manpower, outclassed in terms of weaponry, they fought on till the bitter end against the new Russian government regardless of casualties.
Their resistance continued in the form an insurgency that lasted for more than a decade after the defeat of their regular forces.

The New Forest Brothers spearhead the Baltic resistance against the Russians.
Now with both Chechens and Baltics in open revolt, the Russians will have to pick their fight carefully.

 

[walmart]

Wouldn’t this delegitimization the annexation of the Baltic states ?

 

[Whiteshore]

We have an OTL example, the Chechen people.
Outnumbered in terms of manpower, outclassed in terms of weaponry, they fought on till the bitter end against the new Russian government regardless of casualties.
Their resistance continued in the form an insurgency that lasted for more than a decade after the defeat of their regular forces.

And unlike the Chechens, these hypothetical Baltic rebels would have access to the sea.

 

[BlackDragon98]

And unlike the Chechens, these hypothetical Baltic rebels would have access to the sea.

And thus, assistance from Western nations like back in the 1950s.
Though it will be far more successful than OP Jungle.

 

[Gukpard]

Wouldn’t this delegitimization the annexation of the Baltic states ?

I don't think it can be more deligitimized since no one recognized it, the US claimed the baltics to be occupied territory, not part of the USSR, until the end of the union

 

[Bukabuck]

We have an OTL example, the Chechen people.
Outnumbered in terms of manpower, outclassed in terms of weaponry, they fought on till the bitter end against the new Russian government regardless of casualties.
Their resistance continued in the form an insurgency that lasted for more than a decade after the defeat of their regular forces.

The New Forest Brothers spearhead the Baltic resistance against the Russians.
Now with both Chechens and Baltics in open revolt, the Russians will have to pick their fight carefully.

It would be possible only if population was returned to their homelands. In this timeline they have same fate as Crimean tatars. But I can imagine Yeltsin or Gorbachev, which would rehabilitate them. Then, there would be western analogue of Chechnya.

 

[Bukabuck]

Wouldn’t this delegitimization the annexation of the Baltic states ?

To be honest, western nations never recorgnize Baltics as part of USSR until its end. But I guess that this situation would more demonize USSR in the eyes of the world community.

 

[Karelian]

After the massive manpower and population losses of WW2, the Soviets needed the majority of the Baltic populations to stay where they were for the time being. One could see an administrative annexation, but that would require a constitutional change.