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Article: Hope in the Baltic States. (Impressions of the Soviet Union) (part 2 of 3)
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- Modern Casting
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- January 1, 1991
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Hope in the Baltic States
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the Soviet Baltic Republics, from the northwestern border of the Soviet Union and provide strategic Russian access to the Baltic Sea. The republics have been culturally and ethnically non-Russian since they were occupied by Stalin's troops in 1940 as unwilling partners in the Soviet federation.
The forced annexation of the Baltics was lost amid the turmoil of World War II but concentrations of Baltic immigrants--especially in Cleveland, Chicago and Milwaukee--kept the issue politically alive by lobbying the U.S. government on behalf of the captive nations in the years following the war. Little ...