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Soviet expansion in 1939–1940. After the Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September 1939, in accordance with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact the Soviet forces were given freedom over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, an important aspect of the agreement to the Soviet government as they were afraid of Germany using the three states as a corridor to get close to Leningrad.
The Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia were part of the Russian Empire during the 19th century, achieving independence in the aftermath of World War I.The rise of Nazi Germany during the 1930s created Soviet fears of a German invasion, [3] further aggravated by German expansion to the East, such as the ultimatum to Lithuania in March 1939, as a result of which the nation was ...
In addition, Lithuania received only a fragment of territory that had been recognized by Soviet Russia as part of Lithuania under the Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty of July 12, 1920. [6] Lithuania annexed most of Wilno-Troki County with Vilnius, half of Święciany County, and parts of Grodno, Lida, Oszmiany and Brasław counties. [6]
In 1944, Estonians made up 88–90% of the population, but according to the 1989 census, this number had decreased to 61.5%. [102] In Latvia, between 1945 and 1955 alone, the number of immigrants reached 535,000, most of whom came from Russia. [94] In 1940, Latvians made up about 79% of Latvia's population, but by 1989 this number had dropped ...
Ethnic Russians who had migrated to Lithuania before the 1940 annexation and learned the Lithuanian language were considered "local Russians" by the Lithuanians and had better relations with locals than Russian settlers arriving under the Soviet rule. [12] Baltic communists had supported and participated in the 1917 October Revolution in
The June Uprising (Lithuanian: Birželio sukilimas) was a brief period of the history of Lithuania in late June 1941 between the first Soviet and the Nazi occupations.. A year prior, on June 15, 1940, the Red Army occupied Lithuania and established the unpopular [5] Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, which silenced its critics and suppressed resistance with political repression and state ...
22 July 1940, The president of Latvia, Kārlis Ulmanis, is arrested and deported to Russia, never returning. He died in a prison in Krasnovodsk on 20 September 1942. 23 July 1940, Heads of Baltic diplomatic missions in London and Washington, D. C. protest against Soviet occupation and annexation of their countries.
In 1944, Nazi Germany was losing the war and Soviet Russia was making steady advances. In July 1944, Red Army reached the Lithuanian borders as part of the Operation Bagration. Most of the Lithuanian territory was taken during the Baltic Offensive. The last battle in Klaipėda ended in January 1945.