It is great to be here celebrating the 85th anniversary of U.S. diplomatic relations with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This is the 85th anniversary of unbroken diplomatic relations, and behind that sentence is nearly 100 years of struggle and pain and liberation. That is because the Baltic states did not have an easy 20th century. They were the victims of the two great evils of the last century 's Nazism and communism. The lesson that the Baltic states teach us is not merely one of national resistance to oppression, but they teach us more importantly of the link between national int...
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