What if Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had created a federation shortly after their independence. How would this alter history, would they have a better chance avoiding dictatorship or Stalin and Hitler's evil clutches then??
What if Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had created a federation shortly after their independence. How would this alter history, would they have a better chance avoiding dictatorship or Stalin and Hitler's evil clutches then??
Lithuania turned out to be wonderfully authoritarian during the inter-war period.
Mayhap Antanas Smetona could have risen to the challenge and became the strong-armed leader of such a federation.....
Not if the Baltic States were authoritarian and nationalistic. Even if the Reds lost the Civil War, the Social Democrats actually continued to be a major force in the Finnish politics in the interwar years. They were extremely suspicious of the Baltic governments.Maybe they could have brought Finland in with them in some kind of league/alliance...