Baltic union in 1925

Cyan

Banned
A union of the three Baltic states begins in 1925 and is completed in 1938. It is a parliamentary democracy modeled after local and global historical examples, it has a strong presidency that has autocratic german leaning tendencies but is held in check by the parliament quite well. The population is friendly and well integrated. The GDP growth for the area is 1% higher than in OTL. for all other aspects treat this Baltic country as a single entity.

Such a country has strong support internally and Finland level support externally for resisting encroachment.

What happens next and how does this affect history in general.

Opinions?
 
Well, one would need to know how this Baltic Union came about before considering how it will affect subsequent history. Whose idea was the Union, what parties and leaders in the three countries were supporting it (and opposing it), what was the political discussion about the unification in the different countries and how it changed over time, what was the actual mechanism the Union came about, etc.

What does it mean, for example, that the population is "friendly and well-integrated": what are the language policies and cultural politics of this Union, what kind of friction there is between nationalist groups (as there would have been, in three just recently independent nations joining together) and how are minorities treated for example.

Also, we might want to think about how did the other nations in the Baltic Sea area take the unification, did it increase or lessen tensions between the surrounding nations, what have been the relations of the Union to the nearby nations during the unification process and so on.

For a change this big, we can't just jump from 1925 to 1938 and assume the unification of the Baltic area hasn't already given birth to many knock-on effects and butterflies during the last 13 years at least.
 

Cyan

Banned
It means that if you think about it and think of all the problems that they would have, they have solved it in a way that is generally balanced, non partisan and in support of the unity and all 3 ethnic groups as similarly as possible.

I dont know enough about the area and the history to go into detail on how it would go, nor do i have the interest at this time to spend the extended time on research.

Assume that it goes roughly along the same lines that Finland did in regarding its national unity and has roughly similar levels of internal cohesion.
 
What you really want to know is, "Does the SU still annex them/it like it historically did in 1940?" Probably will try if German lets them.
 
It might be quiet difficult create stabil Baltic Union. Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians have different languages and cultures. Estonian isn't even same language family as other Baltic language. But compined army of BU might be quiet strong. In OTL these countries would have caused for SU quiet bad damage on 1940 if they wouldn't have just accepted demands of USSR.
 
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