09-30-2022, 06:21 PM
(09-29-2022, 03:32 PM)David Horn Wrote:(09-27-2022, 05:31 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Elections and referenda held under duress are frauds. Such explains why the United States and many other countries never recognized the Soviet annexation of Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania in which the Soviet Union forced sham elections for "people's parliaments" to which people who would do the Soviet bidding were the sole choices, and that these delegates would form a new government whose sole purpose was to send a delegation to Moscow begging for annexation by the Soviet Union.
Decisions made under duress are invalid under international, criminal, and commercial law. Fraudulent elections cannot be the basis of a lawful government.
All true, but what happens now? We left Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia under Soviet dominnantion unto the USSR collapsed. I don't see that happening this time, but ...
We could do nothing except to deny legality of the Soviet incorporation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union sealed their rule of these three countries by taking over northern East Prussia from Nazi Germany and occupying the Danish island Bornholm.
The Soviet Union had to weaken greatly for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to revover independence that Stalin had no right to steal and Hitler had no right to deal.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.