What the records say
- When
- 15 Jun 1940
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Coordinates
- 58.68° N, 25.84° E
- Government
- Soviet Union
- Former government
- Estonia
- History
- The Red Army marched into Estonia, and Estonia was integrated into the Soviet Union as the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. The Baltic States had been Rus…
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Occupation of the Baltic states
Soviet and Nazi German occupation (1940–1991)
The Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—were occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 and remained under its control until its dissolution in 1991. For a period of several years during World War II, Nazi Germany occupied the Baltic states after it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.
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2 sources record it
- European Borders, World War II (1938–1945)Stanford Spatial History Lab (M. De Groot)Stanford Spatial History Lab: scholarly reuse, no commercial use
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War Project · names it “Estonia → Russia (conquest)”Correlates of War: free use with citation
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