april utc the countries were illegally annexed and there is a considerable difference between de facto and de jure if i steal your car and then forge the title it may be my car in that i drive it register it paint it hot pink and invite my relatives to live in it but a wikipedia article on the matter would probably best be entitled theft of dojarco's car the article on o j simpson's murder case at wikipedia is entitled o j simpson murder case calculating numbers of countries is tangential to the legal aspect as explained above basically most free countries that had relations renewed relations never having recognized the legality of the forcible annexation many countries did not have relations prior to the occupation because many were not sovereign back then e g india was part of the british empire etc a list is available here i have nothing against including information on who did and who didn't recognize the annexation within the article and the article should include information on the lameness of continuity too but if you would emerge from the innards of this debate a bit a person interested in the occupation or even the argument that there was no occupation would generally expect an article like this with a title like this it's a frequent search term one includes denial in the holocaust entry and there are separate entries on holocaust denial and even criticism of holocaust denial but this does not mean that we agree with holocaust denial does it the occupation of the baltic states is not universally agreed upon no but not too many things are universally agreed upon presenting the prevailing view and serious alternate views is what an encyclopedia is supposed to do you write saying baltics were not annexed is pure nonsence and extremist pov nobody here said that the baltics weren't annexed what some here are saying is that they were illegally annexed whilst under occupation and that is indeed the prevailing view please follow the links i gave that some are in denial really does not matter start an article on denial of the occupation of the baltic states if you like