Occupation of the Baltic states by the USSR followed by their annexation: August 3, 1940 - Lithuanian SSR was incorporated into ... USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union. It de jure legalised a political union of several Soviet republics that had existed ... On 26 December 1991, the USSR was self-dissolved by the Council of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, the ... ratification of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from the Soviet Union ...

The Soviet state is a multinational state." Among the 15 republics were the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, ... The Soviet Union was a state composed of the Soviet republics (of which there were 15 after 1956), with the capital in Moscow. ... citing Article 72 of the USSR Constitution, which stated that any constituent republic was free to secede. On 7 April 1990, a ... The Soviet occupation of the Baltic states was not recognized by a number of Western governments including the United States. ...

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... after the Baltic states had been occupied by the Soviet Union. In October, 1991, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia ... the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union adopted a decree on the order of receiving USSR citizenship by the citizens of the ... Because Latvia forms part of the European Union, Latvian citizens are also citizens of the European Union under European Union ... another EU Member State or an EFTA Member State; another NATO Member State; Australia, Brazil or New Zealand; such a country ...

"The Republic of China never recognized the incorporation of the three Baltic States into the Soviet Union and is very proud of ... On 5 January 1968, an agreement between the UK and USSR was achieved, and the Soviet Union renounced all claims to the Baltic ... Occupation of the Baltic states, Soviet military occupations, Cold War, Foreign relations of the Soviet Union, Post-Soviet ... However, states gave Baltic legations and consulates to the Soviet Union. With some of transfers were stated that the process ...

... state that has united [...] in the Union" and "each Union Republic shall retain the right freely to secede from the USSR". On ... Within the Soviet Union, the RSFSR bordered the Slavic states: Ukrainian SSR (Ukraine), Belarusian SSR (Belarus), the Baltic ... and afterwards the largest and most populous Soviet socialist republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until ... "The Soviet Union was a one-party Marxist-Leninist state." "Law of the USSR of 14 March 1990 N 1360-I 'On the establishment of ...

... of the Soviet Union condemned the annexation of Latvia and the other Baltic states prior to the dissolution of the USSR, the ... That request was approved by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and Latvia became a constituent republic of the USSR. The issue of ... "Soviet occupation of the Baltic States" at Encyclopædia Britannica The History of the Baltic States by Kevin O'Connor ISBN 0- ... This declaration states the incorporation of Latvia into the USSR was legal according to the laws of the Soviet Union and ...

... including by the Soviet Union. However, as the Soviet Union maintained the Baltic States joined the USSR voluntarily, it did ... a major influx from other USSR republics primarily of ethnic Russians took place in the Baltic states as part of a de facto ... the Baltic states view the Soviet presence in the Baltic states as an illegal occupation for its full duration. This continuity ... The Soviet Union reoccupied the Baltic states in 1944-1945 as the war drew to a close. Immediately after the war, ...

Gorbachev resigned on 25 December, and the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR voted the Soviet Union out ... the Baltic states were illegally incorporated into the USSR in 1940. The protocols consisted of a declaration, three agreements ... Commonwealth of Independent States, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, 1991 in the Soviet Union, Treaties of Moldova, Treaties of ... since 11 of the 12 remaining republics had declared that the Soviet Union had dissolved. The signatories preemptively accepted ...

With the reestablishment of independence by the Soviet Republics leaving the USSR in 1990-1991, the government in exile was ... the Baltic states of conspiracy against the Soviet Union and delivered an ultimatum to all Baltic countries for the ... The Soviet occupation of the Baltic states covers the period from the Soviet-Baltic mutual assistance pacts in 1939, to their ... of Finnish territory to the Soviet Union. While the Baltic states were officially neutral in the Winter War, with the Soviets ...

The Soviet Union's aggression, as well as the occupation and unlawful incorporation of the Baltic states into the USSR in 1940 ... State President of Latvia') is head of state and commander-in-chief of the National Armed Forces of the Republic of Latvia. The ... as the USSR had violated the norms of international law and the fundamental laws of the Republic of Latvia. Thus, the Republic ... by age Lists of office-holders List of Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic ...

After the war, the United States applied the most persistent pressure on the Soviet Union regarding the Baltic States' wish for ... Occupation of the Baltic states, Jewish Latvian history, Generalbezirk Lettland, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, Military ... to the USSR, and handed the diplomatic representative offices of the Baltic countries in Stockholm to the USSR. ... most western governments did not recognise the incorporation of Latvia and the other Baltic States into the Soviet Union. The ...

... was the first Baltic state to assert state continuity and the first Soviet Republic to declare full independence from the Union ... the USSR invaded the Baltic states. On 14 June 1940, an ultimatum was served to Lithuania on the alleged grounds of abduction ... Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, Republics of the Soviet Union, Communism in Lithuania, Eastern Bloc, Former client states ... with the State Council of the Soviet Union recognising Lithuania's independence on 6 September 1991. The Soviet Union ...

Both the fact of the incorporation of the Baltic states to the USSR as Soviet republics without qualification, and the long ... the presence of the USSR in the Baltic states remained an occupation sui generis. Although the Soviet Union condemned the ... In 1955 the Republic was declared by the Soviet Union to be fully sovereign; however, Soviet troops remained, based on the four ... After the Baltic states agreed to Soviet demands in September and October 1939, the Soviets turned their attention to Finland. ...

This was after the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States but before they were forcibly legally absorbed into the Soviet Union ... The Baltic Military District was first created by order of the USSR People's Commissar of Defence on 11 July 1940, under the ... It controlled troops on the territory of the Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republics as well as the western part of ... The Baltic Military District was disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and reorganised into the North Western ...

Soviet propaganda also maintained that there was no occupation and that all three Baltic states voluntarily joined the Union - ... The central government in Moscow considered the three Baltic countries constituent republics of the Soviet Union. The ... across the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which at the time were occupied and annexed by the USSR and ... The Baltic states claimed that they were forcefully and illegally incorporated into the Soviet Union. Popular opinion was that ...

The Russian government maintains that the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states was legitimate and that the Soviet Union ... Soviet Estonia, or simply Estonia, was a union republic of the Soviet Union (USSR), covering the occupied and annexed territory ... Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Former socialist republics, Republics of the Soviet Union, Communism in Estonia, Soviet ... "union republic") of the USSR. After another "union republic", the Karelo-Finnish SSR was demoted to an "ASSR", or to an " ...

The Baltic States were in a unique category among the constituent parts of the USSR in that they had been European ... movement that led to the re-establishment of the Republic of Estonia as a country independent from the Soviet Union. It was ... 1988 in the Soviet Union, Political parties established in 1988, Popular fronts in the Soviet Union, Anti-communism in Estonia ... The Restoration of Estonian Independence Nationalism and the Transition to Democracy: The Post-Soviet Experience Soviet Union ...

Forced migration in the Soviet Union, Political repression in the Soviet Union, Occupation of the Baltic states, Soviet ... semi-constitutional procedures while forcibly transforming the independent Baltic states into the soviet socialist republics. ... ISBN 0-520-08228-1. Pohl, J. Otto (1999). Ethnic cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949. Contributions to the study of world history ... Soviet Union demanded to allow an unlimited number of Soviet troops to enter the state territory and to form a more pro-Soviet ...

... "union republics" of the USSR: Estonian SSR, Latvian SSR and Lithuanian SSR. The three countries remained under Soviet rule ... The Soviet Union also required the Baltic states to industrialize to maximize the Soviet economy, and isolated the Baltic ... The three Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - were re-occupied in 1944-1945 by the Soviet Union (USSR) following ... 1944 establishments in the Soviet Union, 1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union, Occupation of the Baltic states, History ...

Soviet of the Soviet Union proudly recounting the recent annexation of the Baltic states and clearly signalling the USSR's wish ... The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was established. Czech pilot Josef František joined the Royal Air Force. The Italian ... Weinberg, Gerhard L. (1954). Germany and the Soviet Union. E. J. Brill. p. 112. "Cudahy Draws Reprimand For Belgium Views". ... Born: Musa Geshaev, poet, literary critic, songwriter and historian, in Grozny, Chechen-Ingush ASSR, Soviet Union (d. 2014); ...

... the branch of the all-Union Komsomol in the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic. It served as an organ of the LĻKJS until the ... Misiunas, Romuald; Taagepera, Rein (1993). The Baltic States: Years of Dependence, 1940-1990. University of California Press. ... Ethnopolitics and the Transition to Democracy: The Collapse of the USSR and Latvia. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. p. 183. ISBN ... 1944 establishments in the Soviet Union, 1993 disestablishments in Latvia, Defunct newspapers published in Latvia, Latvian- ...

... "world-wide socialist community of states". The banner bears the USSR State motto ("Proletarians of all countries, unite!") in ... Coats of arms of the Soviet Union, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, Coats of arms with wheat, Coats of arms with stars, Coats ... It features symbols of agriculture (wheat) and Latvia's maritime culture (a sunset over the Baltic Sea). The red star as well ... or Soviet Socialist Republic. Until 1978, a gold star was used in the state emblem. The coat of arms of Latvia was restored in ...

Therefore, in 1920 and 1921, the Soviet Russia recognized all three Baltic States as well as Poland as independent states. ... the Soviet Union would keep these territories, with the Baltics and Bessarabia annexed to the USSR and Poland forcibly made ... the campaigns against the Republic of Latvia and Republic of Lithuania ultimately failed, resulting in the Latvian-Soviet Peace ... Soviet Russia began attempting to establish Soviet power in as many states as possible. In 1918, the Red Army launched a ...

As a result of the Red Army's Baltic Offensive of 1944, the Soviet Union recaptured most of the Baltic states and trapped the ... retreated to Taiwan and formed the Republic of China. Both mainland China and the USSR stayed good allies until the Sino-Soviet ... The Soviet Union occupied the Baltic states under the auspices of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in June 1940. They were then ... The Baltic states recovered de facto independence in 1991 during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Russian Armed Forces ...

... the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1989 condemned the 1939 secret protocol between Germany and the Soviet Union that had led to ... Baltic states Territorial changes of the Baltic states United States resolution on the 90th anniversary of the Latvian Republic ... 1942 in the Soviet Union, 1943 in the Soviet Union, 1944 in the Soviet Union, 1945 in the Soviet Union, Germany-Soviet Union ... As a result of the Red Army's Baltic Offensive of 1944, the Soviet Union recaptured most of the Baltic states and trapped the ...

During the next eleven months the Soviets occupied and annexed the Baltic states. The Soviet Union supported Germany in the war ... the United States, the Soviet Union and the Republic of China were the "Big Four" Allied powers. The countries involved in or ... which lasted in the Baltic states until the mid-1950s. Estonia remained a de facto part of the USSR until 1991. At the outbreak ... among the other Soviet republics. One hundred and nineteen Armenians were awarded with the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union. ...

The first set of circumstances arose at the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991. One of the ... these states were not considered either predecessor or successor states of the Soviet Union. As a consequence, the Baltic ... the successor state of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (legally) being one of the founding members of the Soviet Union ... successor state to the Imperial State of Iran The Republic of Indonesia, the current successor state of the Dutch East Indies ...

... sent to Estonia to supervise the establishment of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic and its annexation by the Soviet Union ... ISBN 0-208-01976-6. "Analytical list of documents, V. Friction in the Baltic States and Balkans, June 4-21 September 1940". ... "Enforcing Stalinist Discipline in the Early Years of Post-war Reconstruction in the USSR, 1945-1948." Europe-Asia Studies 68.2 ... Censorship in the Soviet Union, Chairmen of the Soviet of the Union, Great Purge perpetrators, Head of Propaganda Department of ...