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State as Transgressor: Šilingas versus the State—A Case Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Svaja Vansauskas Worthington
Svaja Vansauskas Worthington*
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Department of English, University of Alaska-Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508, USA. Email: afsvw@uaa.alaska.edu
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The usually cheerful Insight Travel Guide to the Baltic States offers this synopsis of the Baltic situation:

Their independence was sentenced to death by the Nazi–Soviet Pact [the secret 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact] just before World War II. The pact envisaged the Baltic States would be parceled out between them, but it was overtaken by events with Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. The three states were incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940 … Among few other people did the Soviet mill grind finer than in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania … The final injustice was the permanent imposition of Soviet rule and Stalinist terror. Anyone a visitor meets today in the Baltics is likely to have a relation who was sent to Siberia or simply shot.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 125 - 150
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Copyright © 2008 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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