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Baltic Freedom Day. (Proclamation 5990) (transcript)

Department of State Bulletin

| August 01, 1989 | COPYRIGHT 1984 U.S. Government Printing Office. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

PROCLAMATION 5990, JUNE 14, 19891

Fifty years ago on August 23, 1939, the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed the infamous Molotov- Ribbentrop pact. The secret protocols to this treaty condemned the independent Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to the foreign domination they still endure today.

Less than 1 year after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the Soviet Union invaded the three Baltic Republics and imposed a regime antithetical to the ideas of national sovereignty and individual liberty. The suffering of the Baltic people was exacerbated when Nazi forces drove through these states during the …

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