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Originally Posted by Dargo
The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were invaded and occupied in June 1940 by the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Stalin and auspices of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that had been signed between Nazi Germany and the USSR immediately before the outbreak of World War II. That is the spiel... call it megalomania.
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Actually it goes back before that. Al those territories were once ruled by the Russian Czarist empire. Poland, Finland and Sweden too. Putin wants a return to this.