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The Great Leader and the Baltic states.(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: Your editorial (March 2005) relating to our erstwhile Great Leader, in conjunction with the thirty-year cabinet documents release, calls to mind another contentious issue for which Australians have received no acceptable justification.
I refer to Mr Whitlam's decision to extend de jure recognition to the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. That occupation was a provision of the Nazi-Soviet treaty of 1939--the von Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, which was judged at Nuremberg to be a crime against humanity for which von Ribbentrop would be hanged (and Molotov should surely have dangled likewise).
From the time of the treaty until the time of the Whitlam recognition, all subsequent changes to the Baltic states' status were due ...
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