The Drift into the Cold War and the Freezing of the Baltic Question
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
Year: 2014

No DECISION HAD BEEN TAKEN ON THE BALTIC STATES AT THE BIG THREE conference at Yalta but silence on the part of the Allies was not reassuring. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were by that time firmly under Soviet occupation and Moscow had renewed its program of forced Sovietization. Wartime "liberalism" and hopes for wider autonomy on the model of Mongolia, which many local communists considered feasible, were quickly dashed into pieces. The decisions of the Orgburo of the Central Committee of th