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Complete the following sentence: The occupation of the Baltic States involved the military occupation in June 1940 of the three Baltic republics (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) by the Soviet Union, under the auspices of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. These territories were then incorporated into the Soviet Union as constituent republics in August 1940, although most Western powers never recognized or accepted this forced and largely arbitrary incorporation. On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union and within weeks occupied the Baltic territories. In July 1941, the Third Reich incorporated the Baltic territory into its "Reichskommissariat Ostland". As a result of the...<end_of_turn>
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Red Army Baltic Offensive of 1944, the Soviet Union recaptured most of the Baltic States and trapped the remaining German forces in the Curonian Pocket until their formal surrender in May 1945. This Soviet "occupation or annexation" () or occupation "sui generis" of the Baltic States, lasted until August 1991, when the three countries finally regained their independence.<end_of_turn><eos>