Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have protested moves in Russia they say are a whitewashing of historical facts about the 1939 nonagression pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany that led to their annexation by Moscow.
RFE/RL: Baltic states protest Russia’s historical revisionism on Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
German Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop (L), Soviet head of state Joseph Stalin (2nd L) and his Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov (R) are seen on 23 August 1939 in Kremlin in Moscow during the signing the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, or Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, making the outbreak of a European war virtually inevitable.
