In 1939 the Communist Party had miniscule memberships in the Baltics – in Estonia, for example, it numbered about 120 people. In 1940, on a variety of pretexts, Soviet troops invaded the Baltics, destroyed their governments, imprisoned, deported or shor their leaders, and then organised sham elections in which only Communists could run. Because of the scarcity of local Communists, russified Balts were brought in from Russia, some of whom couldn’t even speak the local language. Other candidates were found amongst released petty criminals and general social misfits with a chip on their shoulder who underwent a fast-track conversion to Communism. The sham elections that followed conformed to no constitutional requirements of the Baltic countries, and thus had no force of law. The alleged pro-Moscow vote in the mid 90 percentiles was simply ludicrous, and in Estonia’s case, the “result” was broadcast from Moscow a day before “voting” even ended! The resultant assemblies carried zero authority in law and absolutely no authority or legitimacy as national parliaments. Their only authority was the authority of Russian guns and the NKVD. Their supposed vote to then renounce their countries’ national sovereignty in favour of the Soviet Union was something even legitimate parliaments could not constitutionally do. Even if those miscellaneous Soviet collaborators and traitors voted all day and half the night, in no way could they legally turn their countries into Soviet Republics. The Soviet occupation of the Baltics was comprehensively illegal from its first day to its last. To describe this cynical Stalinist as circus national parliaments that proclaimed Soviet Baltic Republics is bizarre at best, and demonstrably deceitful at worst – demonstrably, because all the above facts are readily verifiable in any relevant relevant history. Yet that is the offensive fabrication Moscow continues to proclaim to the present day, and by which it continues to discredit itself.