The presidents of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in a joint statement, accused Russia of seeking to falsify the history of world war II. About it reports “Interfax”.
In particular, they believe that Russia is trying to distort the actions of the USSR in the Baltic States and Moscow’s role in the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
“the Soviet Union on the basis of this Pact and the Treaty on friendship, cooperation and demarcation between Germany and the Soviet Union occupied and annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania”, — said in a statement.
Baltic leaders have stressed that to maintain control over the territories of the republics of the USSR used “military superiority, mass repression, exile and ideological control.”
The non-aggression Pact between the USSR and Germany signed on 23 August 1939. It was signed by the foreign Ministers Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop. In June 2019 was published the Soviet original agreement and a secret Protocol on delimitation of mutual spheres of interest in Eastern Europe, according to which in the zone of interests of the Soviet Union included the Baltic States, Poland and Bessarabia — part of modern Ukraine and Moldova.
