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Yes, but most Russians living in Estonia are post-1945 colonists or descendants of post-1945 colonists. I had imagined that the bulk of the population have a l
by twixfel 4y ago
Yes, but most Russians living in Estonia are post-1945 colonists or descendants of post-1945 colonists. I had imagined that the bulk of the population have a long and storied history in Estonia, but they don't. For example, no ethnic Estonians were allowed to return to Narva after the war, and was instead settled overwhelming mostly by Russian colonists. Narva is the third biggest city in Estonia, and 88% Russian. Pre-colonisation it was majority Estonian.
So the border is old but the ethnic borders are very new and based on very recent Russian colonisation.
- O__________O 4y agoSpecific to Narva, Wikipedia has a breakdown of its historical affiliation and invasion, which date back 1000s of years: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Narva https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Narva Of note, “The status of Narva was resolved in a July 1917 referendum, when the district population, at that time roughly equally divided between ethnic Russians and Estonians, voted to attach itself to the newly autonomous and soon to be independent republic of Estonia.”