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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 has a Roman-inspired legal system. [6] Lithuania restored its democratic and independent statehood in 1990, after the decades of Soviet occupation.The Constitution of Lithuania, adopted by referendum in 1992, [5] established the foundation of the social system and defined the rights, freedoms and duties of citizens. [7]
The four countries on the Baltic Sea that were formerly parts of the Russian Empire – Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – consolidated their borders and independence after the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian independence wars following the end of World War I by 1920 (see Treaty of Tartu, Latvian-Soviet Riga Peace Treaty and Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty of 1920).
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.
Occupation of Lithuania may refer to: Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940), including Lithuania; Occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany during World War II (1941–1944) Soviet re-occupation of the Baltic states (1944), including Lithuania
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 ...