Lessons for Baltics after Soviet aggression thirty years ago
Lessons for Baltics after Soviet aggression thirty years ago 96 January 13, 2020. Commemoration of those killed during Soviet aggression in 1991. / D. Umbrasas/LRT Soviet attempt to crush Baltic independence is now often seen as among the last convulsions of the crumbling totalitarian empire. It also delivered several very important lessons to the Baltics today, writes Tomas Jermalavičius at International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Estonia. Some of those lessons had been almost immediately applied and institutionalised, but others had been too easily forgotten, unlearned and e...