Mockery and humiliation: like the Balts asked USSR

On 21 July 1940, the parliaments of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia proclaimed the establishment of Soviet power in their republics and adopted a Declaration on joining in the USSR. Two weeks later, they were taken to the Soviet Union. In the modern Baltic States to the events of 80 years ago is considered the beginning of the Soviet occupation, which lasted, with a break in German a little more than half a century.