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Article: The Baltic nations's struggle.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 4, 1984
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THE THREE NATIONS tucked along the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea--Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--share the melancholy distinction of being the first contries seized by the Soviet Union after the initial setting of boundaries following the consolidation of the Bolshevik regime in the early Twenties. On June 17, 1940, shortly after Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov had dismissed reports of a forthcoming Soviet annexation as lies spread by the "imperialists," Soviet troops marched into the three Baltic states. But this first Soviet occupation didn't last long. In June 1941, Hitler broke with his one-time ally, and Nazi troops invaded the Baltic nations, sending ...