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    During the 1944–1991 Soviet occupation many people from Russia and other parts of the former USSR were settled in the three Baltic countries, while the local...
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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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  • 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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     '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 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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    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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    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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    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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    of the Working People of Estonia (1918–1919) First Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940–1941) Second Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1944–1945)...
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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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  • German occupation of the Baltic states during World War II Museum of the Occupation of Latvia Occupation of the Baltic states Soviet occupation of the Baltic...
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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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    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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    the USSR also condemned the 1939 secret protocol between Nazi Germany and herself that had led to the invasion and occupation of the three Baltic countries...
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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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    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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    by the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, in which state atheism was enforced. By some metrics, Estonia is the most irreligious country in the world...
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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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  • War, 1939 Soviet occupation of the Baltic States, 1940 Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, 1940 Soviet invasion of Manchuria, 1945 Hungarian...
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    War Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940) Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1944) Soviet Union in World War II Women in the Russian and...
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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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  • 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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    Thought, 1917–91. MIT Press. p. 93. Killham, Edward L. (1993). The Nordic Way: A Path to Baltic Equilibrium. Howells House. p. 78. Eagle & Paananen 1985, p...
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    content during the negotiations for military bases in those countries (see occupation of the Baltic States). The day after the pact was signed, the Franco-British...
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