Quote Originally Posted by Basil77 View Post
I(actually Baltic governments requested USSR membership, under Stalin's pressure, yes, you could resist as Finland successfully did but your governments had chosen to not)

1940 06 14 Lithuania received ultimatum from Russia which demanded to make a new government and guarantee entrance for red army which will be located in main strategic points in Lithuania. Lithuania had to answer to this ultimatum till June 15th, 10 o’clock in the morning. However, in 1940. 06. 15 morning soviets were already there and occupied Lithuania (bringing to Lithuania 15 red army divisions, about 150 thousands of soldiers).
Therefore SSRS with this ultimatum broke:
1920 07 12 peace treaty between Lithuania and Soviet Russia.
1926 september 28th nonaggression and neutrality pact between Lithuania and Soviet Russia.
1939 october 10th mutual help agreement.
In 1940 June 17th USSR also occupied Užnemunės region, which under 1939 September 28th treaty between Germany and Russia belonged to Germany, therefore later on Russia paid 7,5 million dollar compensation to Germany. And then all Lithuania belonged to USSR. This is what is called ILLEGAL OCCUPATION which left no choice for Lithuanians to resist (however, there was a partizanian war against USSR in 1944-1953), because red army already was in Lithuania’s territory.
Learn some history first of all!