People's Parliament
Pro-Soviet puppet legislature in Baltic states in 1940 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the 1940 occupation by the Soviet Union puppet legislatures. For the Channel 4 deliberative democracy TV program, see The People's Parliament.
The People's Parliaments or People's Assemblies (Latvian: Tautas Saeima; Lithuanian: Liaudies Seimas) were puppet legislatures put together after the show elections in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to legitimize the occupation by the Soviet Union in July 1940.[1] In all three countries, the elections to the parliaments followed the same script, dictated by functionaries in Moscow and borrowed from the examples of the incorporation of the Belarusian and Ukrainian lands into Soviet Union in the aftermath of the invasion of Poland in 1939.[2]
Quick Facts People's Parliament Latvian: Tautas SaeimaLithuanian: Liaudies Seimas, History ...
People's Parliament | |
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History | |
Preceded by | Riigikogu (Estonia) 4th Saeima (Latvia) Fourth Seimas (Lithuania) |
Succeeded by | Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR |
Elections | |
First election | 14–15 July 1940 |
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