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Pompeo: 1940 Soviet occupation of Baltics 'a criminal act'

by Associated Press
| July 23, 2020 9:27 AM

HELSINKI (AP) — The top U.S. diplomat says the Soviet occupation and annexation of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1940 was “a criminal act” and draws parallel with present-day Russia’s military maneuvers in Ukraine and Georgia.

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