As debated in the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, July 22, 2005Whereas the incorporation in 1940 of the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into the Soviet Union was an act of aggression carried out against the will of sovereign people; Whereas the United States was steadfast in its policy of not recognizing the illegal Soviet annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; Whereas the Russian Federation is the successor state to the Soviet Union; Whereas the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, including its secret protocols, between Nazi Germany and the So...
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