Is it feasible for these estonian isles to support separate (White) state from mainland (Red) Estonia?
Is it feasible for these estonian isles to support separate (White) state from mainland (Red) Estonia?
Is it feasible for these estonian isles to support separate (White) state from mainland (Red) Estonia?
Too near USSR and too far from any pro-USA nation. It wouldn't survive many weeks.
You do though need somebody to stand up for the islands, Sweden/Finland maybe ? (or Germany but that raises other problems with what happens post WW2)
Wasn't there a significant Swedish population on one of the Estonian islands, it might become a second Aland.
Here's a thought - in DrakonFin's scenario of a Finland+Estonia vs USSR winter war, Estonia "sells" the islands to Sweden. Could it work?
You'd need the RN to commit to permanently defending the islands, even in the face of WWII. The Soviet Navy was hardly the RN, but it was more than capable of crushing any Estonian defenses that could possibly be put in place locally.Couldn't RN protect the islands from the soviets.say Estonia is overrun by the Reds during the Russian civil war and the whites fled there .
Finland itself is the Taiwan analog from 1919 to date.
Interestingly this fairly small populations had quite heavy contacts with Sweden, especially on religious matters. The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden had regular contacts with the Estonian Swedes, arranging meetings and summer camps on the isles. In the event of a proper war, I would guess they would be quite resourceful in saving Swedish protestants.I think that we can expect a lot of the Swedish-speakers to flee west in most scenarios where even the mainland of Estonia is taken over by the Soviets anyway.