Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yarjejeniyar sirri da ke cikin yarjejeniyar Molotov-Ribbentrop ta 1939 tsakanin Jamus da Tarayyar Soviet ta tura Estonia, Latvia, da Lithuania zuwa yankin tasirin Soviet. A ƙarshen 1939 da farkon 1940, Tarayyar Soviet ta ba da jerin umarni ga gwamnatocin Baltic wanda a ƙarshe ya haifar da haramtacciyar haɗuwa da jihohin. (A game da lokaci guda, Tarayyar Soviet tana yin irin wannan matsin lamba
a kan Finland.) Kimanin sojoji 30,000 na Soviet sun shiga jihohin Baltic a watan Yuni na 1940, sannan aka kama shugabanninsu da 'yan ƙasa.