占领波罗的海国家
外观
占领波罗的海国家指的是1940年6月14日[1][2],苏联根据苏德互不侵犯条约军事占领波罗的海三国(爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚、立陶宛)这一事件,随后三国即被并吞并成为了苏联加盟共和国[3]。1941年6月22日,纳粹德国实施巴巴罗萨行动对苏联发起攻击,并在数周内占领波罗的海国家。1941年7月,波罗的海地区为第三帝国的奥斯兰总督辖区所管理。1944年波罗的海攻势行动后,苏军重新占领波罗的海地区,并将剩余德军围困于库尔兰口袋中,直至其1945年5月的正式投降[4]。苏联对波罗的海国家的占领则一直维持至1991年8月波罗的海国家重获独立为止。苏联政府在1991年9月6日正式承认三国独立,并支持三国加入联合国和欧盟。最后一名俄罗斯士兵在1999年10月离开波罗的海国家领土。
波罗的海三国[5][6]、美国[7][8]及其法院[9]、欧洲议会[10][11][12]欧洲人权法院[13]以及联合国人权理事会[14]均表明三国的权益在1939年苏德互不侵犯条约受剥夺,先遭苏联入侵,再遭德国入侵,然后被苏联非法占领及吞并[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]。各国和组织对苏联吞并的不承认政策,衍生出国体连续的原则,即三国虽然于1940年至1991年被非法占领,在法理上仍然独立[24][25][26]。
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
[永久失效链接] - ^ 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
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Five decades of almost unbroken Soviet occupation of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ended in 1991
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- ^ 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.
- ^ "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
- ^ Parrott, Bruce. Reversing Soviet Military Occupation. State building and military power in Russia and the new states of Eurasia. M.E. Sharpe. 1995: 112–115. ISBN 1-56324-360-1.
- ^ 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.
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.