Seventy-five years ago today, when Stalin was Hitler’s ally, Moscow began the forcible deportation of tens of thousands of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians from their occupied lands to the interior of USSR from which The deportation from the three occupied Baltic countries of more than 40,000 people was the first mass action of its kind following Stalin’s Anschluss of those countries as a result of the secret protocols of the Earlier senior officials in the overthrown governments of the three were arrested and exiled, most to their deaths.
A subscription to The Baltic Times is a cost-effective way of staying in touch with the latest Baltic news and views enabling you full access from anywhere with an Internet connection. In Estonia alone, “Over 7,000 women, children and elderly people were among the deported … more than 25% of all the people deported in June 1941 were minors (under 16 years of age). The Baltic Times is an independent monthly newspaper that covers latest political, economic, business, and cultural events in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. With offices in Tallinn and Vilnius and its headquarters in Riga, The Baltic Times remains the only pan-Baltic English language newspaper offering complete coverage of regional events. He has served as director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn, and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia. [And] the deportations also severely affected Estonia’s Jewish population — more than 400 Estonian Jews, approximately 10% of the Estonian Jewish population, were among the deportees.”The travails of those deported did not end there or even in the difficult places to which they were sent. It claims, for example, that “the radical Soviet-style reforms of the day were applied with much more caution” in the Baltic states, without even referring to the Soviet repressions. “By the spring of 1942,” “Many not sent to the camps but rather classified as “This year, as they did privately in Soviet times and publicly after the recovery of their independence, the peoples of these three countries are marking this day as a memorial to those who were expelled and died. Notably, the article itself was published in mid-June, when the Baltic States commemorate mass deportations of their population to Siberia. Select text and press Ctrl+Enter to send a suggested correction to the editor. They were approved in Moscow and later used in the Baltic States as well.

You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. The narrative that Jews were “avid supporters of the Soviet regime is simply false, but was a narrative extensively spread by Nazi propaganda,” says Lenskis. At the end of the first year, special Soviet commissions came to the camps and settlements and had “hundreds of the detainees” shot. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. These cookies do not store any personal information.Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. But on June 13, 14, 15 and 16, the Soviet occupiers gathered up as many Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians as they could according to categories that had been worked out long before 1941.What made this act of genocide even worse was that a large number of people were deported not because they were in these categories but because others wanted their housing or “to settle scores.”The Baltic people subject to this degree had no appeal and only a single hour to pack before being loaded onto cattle cars. Seen a mistake? President Zelenskyy’s shift in personnel policy – from “new faces” to “experienced...The work of Euromaidan Press is supported by the International Renaissance FoundationNecessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Just as Hitler was turning his guns towards the Soviet Union in June 1941, Soviet authorities ordered mass deportations in all three Baltic States. Our news analysis and commentaries provide readers with insight essential to understanding the three Baltic countries and their neighbors. At the initiative of the Soviet authorities, illegal parliamentary elections with forged results were organised in the Baltic states, the results of which were not recognised by democratic Western countries. The deportation from the three occupied Baltic countries of more than 40,000 people was the first mass action of its kind following Stalin’s Anschluss of those countries as a result of the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that made the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany allies. Notably, the article itself was published in mid-June, when the Baltic states commemorate mass deportations of … Notably, the article itself was published in mid-June, when the Baltic States commemorate mass deportations of … For further information about the Soviet deportations from the Baltic states, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has this excellent summary produced by the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. Fortunately, they are now being joined by others who have pledged themselves never to forget what Moscow did.Today the justice ministers of the three Baltic countries together with their counterparts from Poland and Ukraine issued a The five ministers pointed out that the Soviet Union by this act and others as well sought to deprive people of their spirit and memory of independent statehood.