Minor PoD: Russian narva

What if after the Soviets overran the baltics again, in 1944, they redesigned the border with Estonia, pushing it to athme, and taking over all the narva resevoir for the russian SSR?

Presuming that the USSR still falls in 1991, what would be the changes in the Russian and in the estonian economy?
 

BigBlueBox

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What if after the Soviets overran the baltics again, in 1944, they redesigned the border with Estonia, pushing it to athme, and taking over all the narva resevoir for the russian SSR?

Presuming that the USSR still falls in 1991, what would be the changes in the Russian and in the estonian economy?
If this means less Russians in Estonia then Estonia is better off.
 
If this means less Russians in Estonia then Estonia is better off.
The Russians in Narva are, from what I've seen, the most loyal Russians in Estonia. Anyway, the only reason Narva has an overwhelming Russian majority is that the USSR burned down Narva and after rebuilding it, refused to let Estonians live there.
 

raharris1973

Gone Fishin'
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So apparently Estonia is not better off. It is missing Russian-speaking citizens in the northeast who otherwise would have been taxpayers, and it has one less reservoir.

In a negative sense, the Estonians may be better off in that the Russians have fewer claims against them. In OTL, they tended to get along better with Lithuania than Estonia or Latvia. Russia could in the ATL focus any irredentism on Latgale while trying to isolate Latvia from Lithuania and Estonia.
 
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