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    The occupation of the Baltic states was a period of annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union from June 1940 until the three countries...
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    The Soviet occupation of the Baltic states covers the period from the Soviet–Baltic mutual assistance pacts in 1939, to their invasion and annexation...
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    The background of the occupation of the Baltic states covers the period before the first Soviet occupation on 14 June 1940, stretching from independence...
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    The Soviet Union (USSR) occupied most of the territory of the Baltic states in its 1944 Baltic Offensive during World War II. The Red Army regained control...
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     'annexation occupation') lasted until the Soviet Union recognized the independence of the three countries in 1991. Thus the Baltic states continued to...
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  • The timeline of the occupation of the Baltic states lists key events in the military occupation of the three countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania...
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    After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Baltic states were under military occupation by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944. Initially, many Estonians...
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    consisting primarily of the Red Army, occupied the Baltic states in 1940, completing their occupation by 1941. After a period of German occupation during World...
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  • The Sovietization of the Baltic states is the sovietization of all spheres of life in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania when they were under control of the...
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  • Territorial changes of the Baltic states refers to the redrawing of borders of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia after 1940. The three republics, formerly...
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    The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All three countries are members of NATO,...
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    Soviet re-occupation of the Baltic States. In Soviet propaganda, this offensive was listed as one of Stalin's ten blows. By early 1944, the Wehrmacht...
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    The three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – were re-occupied in 1944–1945 by the Soviet Union (USSR) following the German occupation. The...
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    1989, the USSR condemned the 1939 secret protocol between Nazi Germany and itself that had led to the invasion and occupation of the three Baltic countries...
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    The military occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany lasted from the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, to the end of the Battle of...
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  • in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania settled there mostly during the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States, although some of the first...
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    Russians in the Baltic states is a broadly defined subgroup of the Russian diaspora who self-identify as ethnic Russians, or are citizens of Russia, and...
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    problem and flaw for both the Latvian military and other militaries of the Baltic states on the eve of World War II had to do with the failure to organize effective...
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    correct to speak of the occupation of the Baltic states, referring in particular to the absence of Soviet legal title. The prolonged occupation was an unorthodox...
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    The Baltic Legations were the missions of the exiled Baltic diplomatic services from 1940 to 1991. After the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states in...
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    events began regarding the Baltic states and the Soviet Union when, following Bolshevist Russia's conflict with the Baltic states—Lithuania, Latvia and...
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    annexation of the Baltic States was never recognised as legal by the Western democracies "Russia denies Baltic 'occupation'", BBC News, May 5, 2005,...
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    European Court of Human Rights cases on Occupation of Baltic States "Motion for a resolution on the Situation in Estonia". EU. U.S.-Baltic Relations: Celebrating...
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    1940 Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1944) Occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany Holocaust in Latvia Latvian national partisans The Barricades Litene...
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    Welles Declaration (category Occupation of the Baltic states)
    acting US Secretary of State, condemning the June 1940 occupation by the Soviet army of the three Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – and refusing...
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    Baltic republics by Nazi Germany Occupation of Baltic states (by Nazi Germany and the USSR, 1939–1991) Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940 Buttar, Prit (20...
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    means. The Soviet division of occupied Poland with Germany, the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states and the Soviet invasion of Finland during the Winter...
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  • Occupation of Lithuania may refer to: Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940), including Lithuania Occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany during...
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    legation was the Consulate General in New York City. Under the American Stimson Doctrine, the legitimacy of the Soviet occupation of Baltic states was never...
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    Learning of the fall of Kars he withdrew to the Ingur. The Russians did nothing and he evacuated to Batum in February of the following year. The Baltic was...
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