占領波羅的海國家指的是1940年6月14日[1][2],蘇聯根據蘇德互不侵犯條約軍事佔領波羅的海三國(愛沙尼亞、拉脫維亞、立陶宛)這一事件,隨後三國即被吞併並成為了蘇聯加盟共和國[3]。1941年6月22日,納粹德國展開巴巴羅薩行動攻擊蘇聯,在數周內占領波羅的海國家。1941年7月,第三帝國成立東方總督轄區管理波羅的海地區。1944年波羅的海攻勢行動後,蘇軍重新占領波羅的海地區,並將剩餘德軍圍困於庫爾蘭口袋中,直至其1945年5月正式投降[4]。蘇聯對波羅的海國家的占領則一直維持至1991年8月波羅的海國家重獲獨立為止。蘇聯國務委員會在1991年9月6日正式承認三國獨立,並支持三國加入聯合國和歐盟。俄羅斯在1998年8月將其位於波羅的海國家的最後一個軍事基地移交拉脫維亞,並在1999年10月撤出所有駐紮在波羅的海國家的俄軍。
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波羅的海三國[5][6]、美國[7][8]及其法院[9]、歐洲議會[10][11][12]歐洲人權法院[13]以及聯合國人權理事會[14]均表明三國的權益在1939年蘇德互不侵犯條約受剝奪,先遭蘇聯入侵,再遭德國入侵,然後被蘇聯非法佔領及吞併[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]。各國和組織對蘇聯吞併的不承認政策,衍生出國體連續的原則,即三國雖然於1940年至1991年被非法佔領,在法理上仍然獨立[24][25][26]。
Taagepera, Rein. Estonia: return to independence. Westview Press. 1993: 58. ISBN 9780813311999.
Ziemele, Ineta. State Continuity, Succession and Responsibility: Reparations to the Baltic States and their Peoples?. Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Martinus Nijhoff). 2003, 3: 165–190.
Kavass, Igor I. Baltic States. W. S. Hein. 1972. The forcible military occupation and subsequent annexation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union remains to this day (written in 1972) one of the serious unsolved issues of international law
22 September 1944 from one occupation to another. Estonian Embassy in Washington. 2008-09-22 [2009-05-01]. (原始內容存檔於2018-06-30). For Estonia, World War II did not end, de facto, until 31 August 1994, with the final withdrawal of former Soviet troops from Estonian soil.
Feldbrugge, Ferdinand; Gerard Pieter van den Berg, William B. Simons. Encyclopedia of Soviet law. BRILL. 1985: 461. ISBN 90-247-3075-9. On March 26, 1949, the US Department of State issued a circular letter stating that the Baltic countries were still independent nations with their own diplomatic representatives and consuls.
Fried, Daniel. U.S.-Baltic Relations: Celebrating 85 Years of Friendship (PDF). June 14, 2007 [2009-04-29]. (原始內容 (PDF)存檔於2012年8月19日). From Sumner Wells' declaration of July 23, 1940, that we would not recognize the occupation. We housed the exiled Baltic diplomatic delegations. We accredited their diplomats. We flew their flags in the State Department's Hall of Flags. We never recognized in deed or word or symbol the illegal occupation of their lands.
Lauterpacht, E.; C. J. Greenwood. International Law Reports. Cambridge University Press. 1967: 62–63. ISBN 0-521-46380-7. The Court said: (256 N.Y.S.2d 196) " The Government of the United States has never recognized the forceful occupation of Estonia and Latvia by the Soviet Union of Socialist Republics nor does it recognize the absorption and incorporation of Latvia and Estonia into the Union of Soviet Socialist republics. The legality of the acts, laws and decrees of the puppet regimes set up in those countries by the USSR is not recognized by the United States, diplomatic or consular officers are not maintained in either Estonia or Latvia and full recognition is given to the Legations of Estonia and Latvia established and maintained here by the Governments in exile of those countries
European Court of Human Rights cases on Occupation of Baltic States
Seventh session Agenda item 9 (PDF). United Nations, Human Rights Council, Mission to Estonia. 17 March 2008 [2009-05-01]. The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in 1939 assigned Estonia to the Soviet sphere of influence, prompting the beginning of the first Soviet occupation in 1940. After the German defeat in 1944, the second Soviet occupation started and Estonia became a Soviet republic.
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Mälksoo, Lauri. Illegal Annexation and State Continuity: The Case of the Incorporation of the Baltic States by the USSR. Leiden – Boston: Brill. 2003. ISBN 90-411-2177-3.
"The Soviet Red Army retook Estonia in 1944, occupying the country for nearly another half century." (Frucht, Richard, Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture, ABC-CLIO, 2005 ISBN 978-1-57607-800-6, p. 132
Russia and Estonia agree borders. BBC. 18 May 2005 [April 29, 2009]. (原始內容存檔於2020-04-12). Five decades of almost unbroken Soviet occupation of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ended in 1991
See, for instance, position expressed by the European Parliament, which condemned "the fact that the occupation of these formerly independent and neutral States by the Soviet Union occurred in 1940 following the Molotov/Ribbentrop pact, and continues." European Parliament. Resolution on the situation in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Official Journal of the European Communities. C. January 13, 1983, 42/78 [2013-08-11]. (原始內容存檔於2011-06-28).
"After the German occupation in 1941–44, Estonia remained occupied by the Soviet Union until the restoration of its independence in 1991." KOLK AND KISLYIY v. ESTONIA, [1] (European Court of Human Rights 17 January 2006).
David James Smith, Estonia: independence and European integration, Routledge, 2001, ISBN 0-415-26728-5, pXIX
Van Elsuwege, Peter. Russian-speaking minorities in Estonian and Latvia: Problems of integration at the threshold of the European Union (PDF). Flensburg Germany: European Centre for Minority Issues. April 2004: 2 [2013-08-11]. (原始內容 (PDF)存檔於2015-09-23). The forcible incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union in 1940, on the basis of secret protocols to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, is considered to be null and void. Even though the Soviet Union occupied these countries for a period of fifty years, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania continued to exist as subjects of international law.
- Yaacov Falkov, "Between the Nazi Hammer and the Soviet Anvil: The Untold Story of the Red Guerrillas in the Baltic Region, 1941-1945", in Chris Murray (ed.), Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War: Forgotten Fronts (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 96–119, ISBN 978-1138612945
- Regarding the Procedure for carrying out the Deportation of Anti-Soviet Elements from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. (頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館) – Full text, English
- The Global Museum on Communism about the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union.
- The Occupation museum of Latvia
- GULAG 113 – Canadian film about Estonians mobilized into the Red Army 1941 and forced into labour in the GULAG
- Soviet Aggression Against the Baltic States (頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館) by (Latvian Supreme Court justice) Augusts Rumpeters — Short and thoroughly annotated dissertation on Soviet-Baltic treaties and relations. 1974. Full text
- Situation in Soviet occupied Estonia in 1955–1956. Manivald Räästas, Eduard Õun. 1956.
- Mälksoo, Lauri (2000). Professor Uluots, the Estonian Government in Exile and the Continuity of the Republic of Estonia in International Law (頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館). Nordic Journal of International Law 69.3, 289–316.
- Non-Recognition in the Courts: The Ships of the Baltic Republics by Herbert W. Briggs. In The American Journal of International Law Vol. 37, No. 4 (Oct., 1943), pp. 585–596.
- Alfred Erich Senn What Happened in Lithuania in 1940?(PDF)
- The Soviet Occupation of the Baltic States, by Irina Saburova. In Russian Review, 1955
- The Steel Curtain (頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館), 時代雜誌, April 14, 1947
- The Iron Heel (頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館), 時代雜誌, December 14, 1953