Word: lithuania
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...five youngest republics grew out of the war. When Hitler attacked Poland, the Red Army moved westward, converting the three independent Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into Soviet Republics. There was a solemn plebiscite. Next, Russia took Bessarabia back from Rumania (she had lost it in World War I) and renamed it the Moldavian Republic. Finally the Russian part of the Karelian Isthmus, plus a slice of Finland conquered in 1940, was set up as the Karelo-Finnish Republic, and the pattern of border buffer republics was complete. The land of the Great Russians, the Russian Soviet Federal...
Victory in Estonia-a victory in sight, but yet to be won-would enable the Russians to: 1) roll back the entire German Baltic Front across the flat, creek-laced terrain of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; 2) outflank the German front in White Russia; 3) raid Germany's supply routes across the Baltic, depriving the German munitions industry of Swedish ore and virtually isolating Finland...
...next 300 years, the Poles marched as far as Kiev; more than once men from the East, notably the Tatars, swept into Poland. Casimir the Great was the first Pole to encompass a large block of non-Poles (Ruthenians) in his domains. His great-niece, Jadwiga, married Jagiello of Lithuania in 1386. The union of the two kingdoms prospered for almost exactly 300 years; the tide did not turn until 1667 (see map). Said Ivan III of Muscovy, when Poland's expansion was in full flower: between Russians and Poles, there can never be permanent peace. Only truces...
Died. Antanas Smetona, 69, Lithuania's first President (1919-20; 1926-36), first and only dictator (1926-40); suffocated in the burning of his son's house; in Cleveland. Short-bearded, long-mustached Newspaper Editor Smetona was a prime builder of the eastern Baltic's political spillikin-pile. Long an agitator for in dependence from Czarist Russia, he headed a successful putsch against Lithuania's pro-Soviet Russian Socialists in 1926, ten years later dissolved all opposition parties. He fled to the U.S. when Russia took over...
...Soviet Union's money, the question of the Baltic States is closed. Historically, and by their own choice-in the Russian view-Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are parts of the Soviet Union. Dissent elsewhere, intrigues by Baltic emigres, "Polish imperialists" and propaganda by Hitler will not alter this stand...