Ka cika wannan jumlar: A shekara ta 1940, Ƙasar Rasha ta Dā ta mamaye kuma ta ƙwace ƙasashen Baltic, wato, Estonia, Latvia, da Lithuania. A watan Yunin 1941, gwamnatocin Soviet na jihohin Baltic sun aiwatar da
yawan fitar da "abokan gaba na mutane"; sakamakon haka, mutane da yawa sun bi da 'yan Nazi masu mamayewa a matsayin' yanci lokacin da suka mamaye mako guda kawai.