“After the Ural mountains, my mother cried:“ This is Siberia! ”. How residents of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were deported after the Soviet occupation
80 years ago, the Soviet Union occupied three Baltic countries. On June 14, 1940, the USSR presented the ultimatum to Lithuania, and on June 16-Latvia and Estonia, accusing the government of these countries of a rude violation of mutual assistance agreements signed under the pressure of Moscow in the fall of 1939, shortly after the Molotov-Ribbentrop. After the ultimatum, additional contingents of the Soviet troops were introduced into three countries.