The unreasonable demands were followed within a few days by military invasion. and by June 15. all three nations were occupied by Soviet troops. After the invasion. the familiar pattern of Soviet seizure of total power began. Top political commissars were assigned by the Kremlin to each of the Baltic States. and elections were held in each of the three nations with a single list of candidates approved by Moscow. Within a year some 95.000 Latvians. Estonians. and Lithuanians were deported to the eastern regions of the Soviet Union. Approximately 80.000 more citizens were deported in 1949 in an effort to eradicate the last vestiges of nationalCXVII- 1275Part 15
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