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Committee for a Free Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos laisvės komitetas) was a political advocacy group of Lithuanian Americans established in 1951. Established on the initiative of the National Committee for a Free Europe and a member of the Assembly of Captive European Nations, the Committee for a Free Lithuania continued to protest the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, advocate for the ...
The occupation of the Baltic states was a period of annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union from 1940 until its dissolution in 1991. For a brief period, Nazi Germany occupied the Baltic states after it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.
Occupation of Ukraine: Baltic states: Occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (de jure independent, de facto under Soviet rule) Parts of European Russia: Eastern Front: Eastern Karelia Finland: Continuation War: No Guam: 1941–1944 United States Japan: Occupation of Guam: No Transnistria: 1941–1944 Soviet Union Romania: Operation ...
Lithuania broke European human rights laws by allowing the CIA to subject an alleged 9/11 suspect to "inhuman treatment" in a secret interrogation center in the Baltic country, the European Court ...
I added a section to Occupation of Baltic states listing all the treaties in effect between the Baltics and the USSR, plus agreements the USSR signed through 1945 Occupation of Baltic states#Treaties affecting USSR-Baltic relations. Hopefully Baltic editors will find it of use in any of the number of "occupation discussions" going on at any ...
Similar deportations were organized by the Soviet regime in the fellow occupied Baltic states of Estonia and Lithuania at the same time. Alongside smaller forced population removals, the main waves of deportation were: The June deportation of 14 June 1941 of around 14,000–15,500 people and their families, including young children under the ...
The Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) became part of the Russian sphere. The Soviet Union began preparations for the occupation and incorporation of these territories. First, it imposed mutual assistance treaties by which the Baltic states agreed to allow military bases for Soviet soldiers within their territory.
Operation Jungle was a programme by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) early in the Cold War from 1949 to 1955 for the clandestine insertion of intelligence and resistance agents into Poland and the Baltic states.