Eternal Baltic August

... USSR, as expressed in the two-volume The History of Soviet Foreign Policy (which saw six editions), was based on this interpretation of the treaty’s significance as recently as 1986 [3] . The political situation in the USSR, and not just the Baltic states, made it impossible to smoothly manage the issue The decisions of the highest legislative body in 1989 do not allow for the conclusion that the USSR acknowledged, directly or indirectly, military occupation of Estonia. On December 24, 1989,...