Abstract:

The Soviet Union’s conquest of the Baltic Sea region resulted in ethnic conflicts. In order to eliminate the rebellion in the Baltic Sea region and to strengthen the control of the region, the Soviet leaders promoted the sovietization by force and established a controlling system in the region. After the death of Stalin, the Soviet leaders once made some positive changes in their policies towards the Baltic Sea region. However, the problems caused by Soviet policies were restrained and covered due to the Soviet leaders misguided view of ethnic problems. Thus the tension between the Soviet central government and the region was increasingly intensified. During the Gorbachev period, wrong policies towards the Baltic Sea region adopted by the Soviet leaders aggravated the independence tendency of this region, which finally led to the loss of the Soviet control of this region and finally the disintegration of the Soviet Union. There are serious lessons we should learn from

Key words: Soviet Union, Baltic Sea, ethnic problems, controlling mechanism, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, lesson