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122 Latvija nacistiskās Vācijas okupācijas varā
The destiny of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians was completely different. As
they found out during 1944 and 1945, even the Western Allies were not ready to risk
their relationship with the Soviet Union for the sake of the three little Baltic States. This
attitude was a grave disappointment for the Baltic people, who still had believed that the
USA and Great Britain would honour the promises given in the Atlantic Charter of 1941.
While people in the western parts of Europe were eagerly waiting for their liberation
from the yoke of German occupation and the beginning of the reconstruction of their
countries, people of the former Baltic States knew that their hopes of independence
were lost for indefinite time.
References
1 Cited in: Polvinen, T. (1979) Barbarossasta Teheraniin. Suomi kansainvälisessä politiikassa
1941–1943. Juva, p. 205.
2 In the following text the parts dealing with the history of Finnish Continuation War have not been
provided with any specific footnotes because of their very general character. All in all one has to regret
the little amount of studies in Finnish history that have been published in major world languages.
However, I would like to draw the reader’s attention to the following books published in either English
or German as an introduction to the subject: Tarkka, J. (1991) Neither Hitler or Stalin. Finland During
the Second World War. Helsinki; Vehviläinen, O. (2002) Finland in the Second World War. Between
Germany and Russia. New York; Jussila, O., Hentilä, S., Nevakivi, J. (2000) From Grand Duchy to
a Modern State. Political History of Finland since 1809. London; Jokipii, M. (1994) Finnland und
Deutschland im 20. Jahrhundert. Jyväskylä; Deutschland und Finnland im 20. Jahrhundert. (1999)
Hrsg.: Hösch, E., Kalela, J., Beyer-Thoma, H. Wiesbaden.
3 About Finnish participation in the Estonian War of Independence see for example: Zetterberg, S.
(1977) Suomi ja Viro 1917–1919. Helsinki, pp. 150–178; Leskinen, J. (1999) Veljien valtiosalaisuus.
Suomen ja Viron salainen sotilaallinen yhteistyö Neuvostoliiton hyökkäyksen varalle vuosina
1918–1940. Juva.
4 About kindred people thinking see for example: Nygård, T. (1978) Suur-Suomi vai lähiheimolaisten
auttaminen. Aatteellinen heimotyö itsenäisessä Suomessa. Helsinki; Otava, passim. About border
state politics see for example: Roiko-Jokela, H. (1995) “Ihanteita ja reaalipolitiikkaa. Rudolf Holstin
toiminta Baltian maiden kansainvälisen de jure – tunnustamisen ja reunavaltioyhteistyön puolesta
1918–1922,” in: Studia Historica Jyväskyläensia 52: 79–87 and 250–259.
5 Misiunas, R., Taagepera, R. (1993) The Baltic States: Years of Dependence 1940–1990. Berkeley,
University of California Press, passim.
6 Warma, A. (1973) Lähettiläänä Suomessa 1939–1944. Helsinki, pp. 94, 116. Originally this book was
published in Estonian as “Diplomaadi kroonika, Ülestähendusi ja dokumente aastatesti 1938–44.”
7 Warma, A. (1973) Op. cit., pp. 154, 155.
8 Ibid., pp. 188, 189.
9 Hyytiä, O. (1992) Viron kohtalontie 1933...1939...1950. Jyväskylä, p. 179.
10 Warma, A. (1973) Op. cit., pp. 134, 135.