The sacrifices were not in vain

The Swedish Wire January 17, 2011

History has no other example to show of an empire falling to pieces with so little bloodshed and so few open conflicts as was the case when the Soviet Union split up and dissolved” Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt writes in an op-ed that this year marks 20 years since Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were able to regain their independence.

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