==Truly horrible idea to try to split off part of the article into The Baltic States and the Soviet Union== 
 (1) An article purporting to start on the history of the Baltic States and the Soviet Union 4 years after the official 1940 annexations of the Lithuanian SSR, Estonian SSR and Latvian SSR makes absolutely zero sense. 
 (2) This "new" article has seriously been titled by someone as "The Baltic States and the Soviet Union" as opposed to "Invasion of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union" or "Annexation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union."   
 (3) Moreover, the title would be highly inaccurate even if no invasion occurred: the Baltic States and the Soviet Union existed as separate entities for over two decades, and were also separated during the 1941-1944 German occupation, yet that's not in this article titled "The Baltic States and the Soviet Union" which clearly does not cover the topic purported by its title. 
 (4) In a perhaps unintended but amusing POV twist, the first line of the article cites Dado Muriyev: "In 1944 the Soviet Union reoccupied the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as part of the Baltic Offensive in 1944, a twofold military-political operation designed to rout Nazi German forces and liberate "the Soviet Baltic peoples".  
 (5) In fact, perhaps more amusingly, the basis for the invasion, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, is not mentioned a single time in non-footnote text. 
 (6) Indeed, even the official 1940 forced annexation following the Red Army invasion and parliament replacements have been left out of this article.  The only mention is the re-invasion in 1944. 
 (7) The reason for this disconnect is that it is essentially a copy and paste job from the article Occupation of the Baltic States, which included the entire history of the 1940 annexation of the Baltic SSRs and beyond. This is why it was contained in one article  the events are inseparable both legally and effectively factually.  Picking up 4 years later makes absolutely zero sense. 
 (8) Consensus should have been achieved before such a major move was attempted.