Lithuania, at first assigned to the German sphere of influence, in September was transferred to the Soviet Union. In October 1939, the Soviet Union forced on Lithuania a nonaggression pact that allowed Moscow to garrison 20,000 troops in the country. In return, the city of Vilnius, now occupied by Soviet troops, was granted to Lithuania. On June 15, 1940, Lithuania was overrun …

The Soviet Union, at least in the Stalinist times, was not a country of law. Certain traits of the person made him a target: being ethnic Lithuanian (or belonging to numerous other targetted groups), being religious, being intellectual, having worked for Lithuanian government before the occupation or being politically active, etc. would all give “red flags” for persecution.

With the beginning of World War II, to prevent the appearance of Nazi troops on the border with the USSR, Soviet authorities forced Lithuania to sign …

In October of the same year, the USSR pressured Lithuania into signing the Soviet-Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty (Lithuanian: Lietuvos-Sovietų Sąjungos savitarpio pagalbos sutartis), which meant that the Vilnius Region was returned to Lithuania, in exchange for allowing Soviet troops to be stationed on Lithuanian soil.

31/01/2022 · By then, 15 countries had become part of the USSR: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

The Soviet Union, at least in the Stalinist times, was not a country of law. Certain traits of the person made him a target: being ethnic Lithuanian (or belonging to numerous other targetted groups), being religious, being intellectual, having worked for Lithuanian government before the occupation or being politically active, etc. would all give “red flags” for persecution.

02/01/2006 · The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the USSR or the Soviet Union) consisted of Russia and 14 surrounding countries. The USSR's territory stretched from the Baltic states in Eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean, including the majority of northern Asia and portions of central Asia.