Baltic Freedom Day
Encyclopedia
Baltic Freedom Day - 14 June, a name given to the day when Soviet deportations
from the Baltic states
started. The term Baltic Freedom Day for the first time was mentioned in Ronald Reagan
's proclamation number 4948 on 14 June 1982.
Population transfer in the Soviet Union
Population transfer in the Soviet Union may be classified into the following broad categories: deportations of "anti-Soviet" categories of population, often classified as "enemies of workers," deportations of entire nationalities, labor force transfer, and organized migrations in opposite...
from the Baltic states
Baltic states
The term Baltic states refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ; Finland also fell within the scope of the term after initially gaining independence in the 1920s.The...
started. The term Baltic Freedom Day for the first time was mentioned in Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
's proclamation number 4948 on 14 June 1982.