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between 1941-44.īetween 1940-41 the Soviet authorities agree to a scheme brokered by the Japanese Consul in Lithuania -who now has an honoured place in Israel in the Vad Yashem Holocaust memorial in the Avenue of the Righteous for saving Baltic Jewish lives during the Soviet occupationof 1940-41. Yet despite the fact that I have no time for totalitarian monsters like Stalin it is a historical fact that the Soviets treated the Baltic Jews much better between 1940-41 than the crumbum Nazis did. Soviet, and in this case therefore russian, popular historiography has never acknowledged these claims, claiming to the contrary that the baltic states joined the union willingly in the inmediate postwar years (somehow managing to leave out the problematic sovietization of these nations including massive ethnic deportations to good ol' siberia and suppresing popular insurrection). The Baltic nations even managed to keep some consular and embassies in places such as washington all during the cold war based on their post ww1 nation state's, they were diplomats in exhile in a sense. It should be noted that from a legal standpoint all the way until the soviet union collapsed, several major western powers never stopped recognizing the baltic states sovereignty or their claims to said statehood despite the hostil takeover from moscow, both during their partition of eastern europe with the pact or after they had ejected the germans during the push to berlin later in the second world war.

So penetrating to the Baltic made as much strategic sense for Stalin as it did for Peter the Great. Stalin's pact really did mean that the Russians had a much shorter front to defend and the Nazis a lot more places to go before ultimately not reaching Moscow. Petersburg in the first few days of Barbarossa then move from there to Moscow a lot more quickly than they did. Petersburg) from Estonia it would have been a lot easier for the Nazis to takeover St. Only with German troops a day from Leningrad (now St. After all, it did not directly affect the West. There were plenty of voices in the West at the time arguing for letting the Nazis destroy themselves in Russia (or get their lebensraum). Given time Hitler likely might have gotten Great Britiain and France to go along with a Nazi takeover of Poland as they did Czechslovakia. Click to expand.The Baltic States were just as vulnerable to Nazi takeover, starting with Lithuania over Memel without a Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact as they were to Soviet takeover with a Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact.