The United States and the United Kingdom treated the entrance of Soviet troops into the Baltic states in the 1940s with understanding and viewed this step as an unpleasant but necessary measure to oppose Nazi Germany’s aggression.This is evident from declassified archive documents that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has provided in response to an inquiry from the State Duma, the SVR press bureau told Interfax Thursday.

“Unique information resources that our intelligence services possessed in London and Washington made it possible to have a clear picture of the evolution in the U.S. and British political leaderships’ approaches toward understanding the importance of the Baltic region for opposing the German aggression, i.e. not only for the USSR but also for the entire anti-Hitler coalition that was formed in the second half of 1941,” it said.

“The removal of the pro-German regimes in the Baltic states and the bringing of Soviet troops to the region in that military-political situation was perceived in the Western democracies as an unpleasant but necessary and timely step,” the SVR press bureau said.

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