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    The Soviet occupation of the Baltic states covers the period from the SovietBaltic mutual assistance pacts in 1939, to their invasion and annexation...
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    The three independent Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – were invaded and occupied in June 1940 by the Soviet Union, under the Molotov–Ribbentrop...
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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 occupation of Latvia in 1940 refers to the military occupation of the Republic of Latvia by the Soviet Union under the provisions of the 1939...
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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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    under the Soviet occupation from 1940 to 1991, as well as during the German occupation in 1941–1944/1945. The prevailing opinion accepts the Baltic thesis...
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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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    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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    The Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina took place from 28 June to 3 July 1940, as a result of an ultimatum by the Soviet Union to Romania...
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    of Estonia on 21 July 1940, a month after the 16–17 June 1940 Soviet military invasion and occupation of the country during World War II. After the installation...
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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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    Ukraine. Soviet forces, consisting primarily of the Red Army, occupied the Baltic states in 1940, completing their occupation by 1941. After a period of German...
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    to 1944/1945, before the Soviet Union re-occupied it in 1944 and 1945. The Soviet occupation of the Baltic states from 1939 to 1940 and 1944–1991 is widely...
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    September 1939 and the Soviet invasion and occupation of the Baltic countries in June 1940. The 1989 event was organised by the Baltic pro-independence movements:...
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  • (1941–1945) Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944 Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (21 July 1940 – 21 August 1991) Baltic states under Soviet rule (1944–1991)...
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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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    1989, the year of the last census during the 1944–1991 Soviet occupation of the three Baltic countries. Most of the present-day Baltic Russians are migrants...
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    Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (1918–1919) Lithuanian–Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919) First Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940–1941)...
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  • Winter War, 1939 Soviet occupation of the Baltic States, 1940 Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, 1940 Soviet invasion of Manchuria, 1945...
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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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  • and repression of the native population. During both Soviet occupations (1940–1941; 1944–1991) a combined 605,000 inhabitants of the three countries...
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    and Soviet occupation of Latvia during 1940–1991. Latvian diplomats who were stationed in embassies and consulates at the moment of the occupation in 1940...
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    The Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944 refers to the military occupation of Latvia by the Soviet Union in 1944. During World War II Latvia was first...
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    the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States. The Soviet occupation of the Baltic States was based on the 1939 secret protocol added to the Molotov–Ribbentrop...
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    the heading of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The Baltic states assert that their incorporation into the Soviet Union in 1940 (as the Lithuanian...
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  • Soviet-occupied Lithuania may refer to: Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940), including Lithuania Soviet...
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  • Soviet-occupied Estonia may refer to: Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940), including Estonia Soviet re-occupation...
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    The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the...
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    Soviet occupation of the Baltic states and the Soviet invasion of Finland during the Winter War are described as elements in the Soviet construction of a security...
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