It is very complicated question for any Baltic State. Estonia was in very bad position. Estonian Army could fight very successful along Estonian-Soviet border, but had a long open flank on the border with Latvia. Soviet Union had proved in Winter War it could flood any enemy by its own blood. Baltic states had live in Russia Empire and many people thought they will can live some time under soviet occupation until SU will be defeted by Germany or West Allies. If people could know, how hard soviet repressions they will face soon, the resist would be immediately, overall and fierce.durb wrote:Thanks, I will look on Arumäe article with time and maybe comment after that. I can more or less read Estonian, but it demands lots of effort and being very careful with the context of words. A bit same as knowing Spanish and by that language base read texts in Italian or in French.
For Lithuania, the SU was only one probably .ally until October 1939, and this one more reason not to resist in 1940. The things changed soon after occupation - the tru face of Soviets was horrific. And 1941 Uprising was overall and fierce, although soviet managed to destroy the Lithuanian underground Military Center in Vilnius and, by the second hand, Germany want the Lithuanian Uprising in no way does not occur. Germans even arrested the Leader of Lithuanian underground colonel K.Škirpa in Berlin as soon as German-Russian war started. Also fierce was anti-soviet partisan movement after German troops withdrew from Lithuania.
