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The '''occupation of the Baltic states''' refers to the [[military occupation]] of the three [[Baltic states]]: [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]] and [[Lithuania]] by the [[Soviet Union]] under the auspices of the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]] on 14 June 1940<ref>{{cite book |title=Estonia: return to independence |last=Taagepera |first=Rein |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1993 |publisher=Westview Press |location= |isbn=978-0-8133-1199-9 |page=58 |pages= |url= |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ziemele |first1=Ineta |last2= |first2= |year=2003 |title=State Continuity, Succession and Responsibility: Reparations to the Baltic States and their Peoples? |journal=Baltic Yearbook of International Law |volume=3 |issue= |pages=165–190 |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff |doi= |url= |accessdate= }}</ref> followed by their [[annexation|incorporation]] into the USSR as [[Republics of the Soviet Union|constituent republics]], unrecognised internationally.<ref name="kavass">{{cite book |title=Baltic States |last=Kavass |first=Igor I. |year=1972 |publisher=W. S. Hein |location= |isbn= |page= |url=http://books.google.com/?id=_LRAAAAAIAAJ&q=Baltic+states |quote=The forcible military occupation and subsequent annexation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union remains to this day (written in 1972) one of the serious unsolved issues of international law}}</ref>