Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania, each invaded by Soviet troops last month, have now been formally annexed into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- supposedly at request of their inhabitants.
@RealTimeWWII Despite my opposition to the "Stalin-Hitler" pact, these would have all been absorbed into the 3rd Reich. The 1917 Bolsheviks would have struck back, not sit back. Those of 1917 would have stopped Franco in Spain, and who knows where that would have sent history?
@RealTimeWWII To their credit, the USA never acknowledged the annexing.
@RealTimeWWII Very disconcerting tweet to see show up in my timeline, given current events. 🤷♂️
@RealTimeWWII Stalin, holding a gun to the heads of the Baltic states: "Would you like to be annexed into the Soviet Union?" Baltic states: "Da!"
@RealTimeWWII A legible map for a change. Well done.
@RealTimeWWII Soviet Union was restoring Russian Empire. Otherwise these territories would have been seized by nazis