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   Occupation of the Baltic states

   The occupation of the Baltic states refers to the occupation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania first by the Soviet Union under the provisions of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany, then by Nazi Germany from 1941-1944, and again by the Soviet Union from 1944-91.
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   Occupation of the Baltic republics by Nazi Germany

   Occupation of the Baltic states by Nazi Germany occurred during Operation Barbarossa in 1941.
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   Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940

   Occupation of Baltic states ... ↑ Soviet occupation of the Baltic States at Encyclopedia Britannica
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   Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic

   Although the US and the UK, the allies of the USSR against Germany during the World War II recognized the occupation of the Baltic states by USSR at Yalta Conference in 1945 de facto, they retained diplomatic relations with the exiled representatives of the independent Republic of Estonia, never formally recognized the annexation of Estonia de jure.
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   Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic

   The occupation of the Baltic states was complete with a communist coup d'état in each country, supported by the Soviet troops.
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   Soviet occupations

   Soviet occupation of the Baltic States When World War II started in September 1939, the fate of Baltic countries had been already decided in the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact and its Secret Additional Protocol of August 1939. ... All three Baltic states, having been occupied by Soviet Union, were in 1941–1944 occupied by Germany and administered through the Reichskommissariat Ostland.
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   Baltic Russians

   As the war drew to a close, the Soviet Union resumed its occupation of the Baltic states in 1944-1945.
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   Baltic Germans

   Ethnic Germans began to settle in what are now Baltic countries in the 12th century when traders and missionaries began to visit the coastal lands inhabited by tribes who spoke Finnic and Baltic languages. ... During the 50 year long occupation of the baltic states, Soviet Russian authorities governing the Estonian SSR and the Latvian SSR, politically empowered by their victory in World War II, were keen to erase any traces of ethnic German rule in past centuries.
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   Continuation War

   As with the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, the United States government did not recognize the Soviet annexation of western Karelia neither in 1940 nor 1944.
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    Latvia

    In 1989 the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a resolution on the "Occupation of the Baltic states", in which it declared that the occupation was "not in accordance with law," and not the "will of the Soviet people".

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