How to make both Latvia and Estonia much more populous?

What is the reason for this? The larger amount of forests in Lithuania? Something else?



OK; understood.

Also, though, in a TL where both Vilnius and Klaipeda become Russified, could be have seen a Lithuanian Transnistria after the end of the Cold War?
More nationalism. :p

I doubt that an armed breakaway is possible, there just wasn't the climate for armed conflict and both of these regions are too vital for Lithuania to be let go. Especially not Vilnius (which would probably be split a 33-33-33 manner between Poles, Lithuanians and Russians). But some insurrection might be possible, especially if Russia still ends up supporting Donetsk/Abkhazia/Transnistria and others like OTL.
 

CaliGuy

Banned
More nationalism. :p

Due to a longer history of independence?

I doubt that an armed breakaway is possible, there just wasn't the climate for armed conflict and both of these regions are too vital for Lithuania to be let go. Especially not Vilnius (which would probably be split a 33-33-33 manner between Poles, Lithuanians and Russians). But some insurrection might be possible, especially if Russia still ends up supporting Donetsk/Abkhazia/Transnistria and others like OTL.

How much aid would Russia actually be able to send to separatists in Lithuania in this TL? After all, Russia wouldn't have a common border with Lithuanian separatists like it has with Ukrainian separatists in our TL.
 

yourworstnightmare

Banned
Donor
Two questions:

1. How many Germans would actually be willing to immigrate there?
2. Would Germany allow ethnic Latvians and Estonians to immigrate to Germany en masse in this TL? If so, couldn't many of them actually do this (thus resulting in less people in Latvia and Estonia)?
1. Depends on what kind of boons and pressures the German government put forward, i.e. how serious they are in their migration policies.
2. No-.
 
Due to a longer history of independence?



How much aid would Russia actually be able to send to separatists in Lithuania in this TL? After all, Russia wouldn't have a common border with Lithuanian separatists like it has with Ukrainian separatists in our TL.
Probably.

And Russia only has to go through Belarus, which will most likely be friendly to them like IOTL. And they have a border in Kaliningrad, too.
 

CaliGuy

Banned
Also, what about having Russian Tsar Alexander III try Russifying Latvia and Estonia by forcing the Baltic Barons to give up a part of their land (perhaps with compensation for them afterwards) so that this land can be used to settle ethnic Russian peasants in Latvia and Estonia?

Would that work for this? After all, the Russian Tsar before 1905-1906 was an absolute monarch who didn't really have any limits on his power; plus, Alexander III was already into Russification and many ethnic Russian peasants did settle in areas such as Kazakhstan and Siberia in our TL.
 

CaliGuy

Banned
Plus, the Russian serfs were already emancipated by the time that Alexander III came to power in Russia in 1881.
 
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