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An embassy representative summoned to the ministry was deeply concerned about the bill under consideration in the Russian State Duma, which seeks to reverse the decision of the USSR People’s Deputies in 1989 to declare the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. legally unjustified and invalid.
According to Rasa Jakilaitienė, representative of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, this is a coordinated action by the three Baltic countries.
Deputy Foreign Minister Dalius Čekuolis noted that the attempt to rehabilitate the two dictators was repeatedly condemned not only by the international community, but also by Russia itself.
He also expressed the hope that the Duma has enough wisdom to reject a project that brings today’s Russia to a totalitarian past.
An initiative registered in the Russian Parliament to reverse the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact sentence, adopted three decades ago.
On August 23, 1939, the German and Soviet foreign ministers signed a non-aggression pact (the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) and secret protocols.
According to them, the Soviets and the Nazis on the eve of World War II divided the Baltic countries and Poland into spheres of influence. Shortly after the signing of the pact, World War II broke out, during which the Baltic states and Poland were occupied.
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