Baltic States WI

Is it possible if when the Baltic States leave the Soviet Union in 1991, that all three states merge into one Baltic State.
 
For one thing, they have no particular reason to. Lithuania in particular is a very differant society (Catholic not Lutheran, fewer Russians and more tolerant of them). For another thing, such a state, as of 1991, might have Russians as the largest single ethnic group; too substantial for the Baltics, that's for certain.
 
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Correct me if I'm wrong but after just securing their independence why they form a union!
 
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Is it possible if when the Baltic States leave the Soviet Union in 1991, that all three states merge into one Baltic State.
Here it was not viewed as "leaving the Union", but rather restoration of pre-war independence. Hence, there's no immediate reason to for a union.

There was considerable cooperation and solidarity among the Baltic states (well, there were conflicts, mostly over sea borders and fishing rights, too :D). However, political union would require an external forcing, and I have no idea what it could be.

Pressure from West is extremely unlikely - nobody really needs that united Baltic state.
 
I suppose there is a slim, slim chance that if the Baltic states are amalgamated into a Baltic SSR at some point between 1945 and, say, 1981 (with the OTL Baltic SSRs as ASSRs), and everything else in the Soviet Union goes as per OTL, that the SSR stays together as a union after secession from the Soviet Union (if nothing else, the increased need for co-operation between Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian independentists that is necessary to make a legal secession might help).
 
The problem of those baltic states is heterogeneity.

Sure on a map they look alike and even their names are too, but they're not.

Really it's pretty funny to see how everything two of them share in common is never shared with the third, and the third is never the same.

See Estonia : the estonians are finnic people and so their language is closely like finnish, unlike the two others who share a baltic language.

See Lithunia : Main religion is Catholicism, the two other got Protestantism

See Latvia : Huge population of Russian ( 25% ) the two other get far less.

Etc

So it's not ASB, but they don't feel like ONE country, no more than Serbian and croatian. :D

 
See Latvia : Huge population of Russian ( 25% ) the two other get far less.

Back in 1989 (when there was a census, unlike in 1991, but the major changes would have started under Soviet collapse), Latvia was 34% Russians (42% East Slav); Estonia, however, was 30% Russian (35% East Slav), which isn't really "far less". The consensus is that while Latvia had more Russians than Estonia, the divide was Latvia and Estonia (lots) and Lithuania (much fewer).
 
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