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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. Chapters: Occupation of the Baltic states, 1940 Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania, The Holocaust in Lithuania, Occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany, Reichskommissariat Ostland, June Uprising in Lithuania, Polish-Lithuanian relations during World War II, Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force, Battle of Raseiniai, Vilna Ghetto, Lithuanian Security Police, Resistance in Lithuania during World War II, Rainiai massacre, People's Seimas, Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania, Lithuanian Activist Front, Siauliai Offensive, Kovno Ghetto, Jay M. Ipson, Local Self-Defence in Lithuania during the Nazi occupation, Nachman Dushanski, Koniuchy massacre, Kaunas Offensive, Kaunas pogrom, Baltic Operation, Tautinio Darbo Apsaugos Batalionas, Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye, Provisional Government of Lithuania, Serov Instructions, Marcinkonys Ghetto, Petras Raslanas, June deportation. Excerpt: The occupation of the Baltic states refers to the military occupation of the three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union under the auspices of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on 14 June 1940 followed by their forcible illegal incorporation into the USSR as constituent republics. On 22 June 1941 Nazi Germany attacked the USSR and within weeks occupied a significant part of it including the Baltic republics. In July 1941 the Baltic territory was incorporated into the Reichskommissariat Ostland of the Third Reich. As a result of the Baltic Offensive of 1944, Soviet Union recaptured most of the Baltic states and trapped remaining German forces in Courland pocket until their formal surrender in May 1945. The Soviet "annexation occupation" (Annexionsbesetzung or occupation sui generis) of the Baltic states lasted until August 1991 when the Baltic states regained independence. The Governments of the Baltic states, the United States and its courts of law, the European Parliament, the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Council, have all stated that these three countries were invaded, occupied and illegally incorporated into the Soviet Union under provisions of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact first by the Soviet Union, then by Nazi Germany from 1941-1944, and again by the Soviet Union from 1944-1991. This policy of non-recognition has given rise to the principle of legal continuity, which holds that de jure, the Baltic states have remained independent states under illegal occupation throughout the period 1940-91. In its reassessment of Soviet history that began during perestroika in 1989, the USSR condemned the 1939 secret protocol between Germany and itself. However, the USSR never formally acknowledged its presence in the Baltics as an occupation or that it annexed these states, and considered the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republics as its constituent republics. The present Russian historiograph
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