Article: Sentence: life. (the Baltic Republics)

DURING THE recent celebrations of the end of World War II, three former countries were all but forgotten. Before the war, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were thriving independent nations. Now they are part of the Soviet Union. Their government is the Soviet government. They have ceased to be independent states. Take Latvia, for example.

The description of the "Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic" that appears in the new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica was, aappropriately enough, written in part by an official of the Latvian SSR Academy of Sciences, Pyotr Vatslavovich Gulyan. After all, history is written by the victors. The first sentence reads: ...

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