Twentyfive years ago Soviet armed forces moved across the frontiers of the Baltic States. conquered the area. staged Sovietstyle oneslate elections. and formally absorbed the Baltic States into the Soviet Union as constituent republics. All of these events took place within a few short weeks during the summer of 1940. The Baltic peoples were forced to submit to conquest. Many Baltic people were killed and many thousands more were deported to distant areas in the U.S.S.R. Once the conquest was complete. the process known as Sovietization took place. The Baltic nations were reshaped according to the model of the Soviet state itself.
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