Lituania, Latvia, Estonia officially invited russian army and
than voted on referendum to join USSR.

Michael if you really believe this you are beyond hope.

cheap demagogy. Whether you like it or not the aggrements and
the referendum are historical facts and it will stay forever.

For starters, I'd sure like to see the document where the Baltic
countries "officially invited" Stalin's Red Army to their terri-
tories. Wonder what the _heck_ would've they invite them for?

In reality though, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland were
given flat out ultimatums with 48 hour timeframes for "partnership
treaties" to allow military bases with overpowering Soviet military
numbers, or be considered Russia's enemies, face war and be overrun
by Soviet forces in several times the manpower (not to mention hard-
ware) that was already stationed near their borders. Since the
Western allies were at war and quite busy themselves at this point,
and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (existance of which the Soviets
had denied well into the 1990ies, but the originals not to mention
official copies of which have been found) gave free hands by Hitler
to Stalin to do with Baltics/Finland as he wishes, there was no help
expected from Germany either.

So the governments of the Baltic states made the grave mistake
and accepted the terms of the ultimatums. Unfortunately, by at-
tempting to avoid war and save lives by choosing not to attempt
military resistance (they did *not* consult with their nations
nor even considered military resistance against enemy 100 times their
size), they actually settled the grounds of the 50-year old
occupation that followed, and allowed people with misconceptions
such as yours to even exist. Fortunately, Finland (who received
the ultimatum last) witnessed the fate of the Baltic states and
knew better -- they refused, and as a result, indeed faced their
bloody Winter War, but instead of being turned into the Finnish
SSR they were able to keep their independence despite losing some
of their territory in the end.

In the Baltics, after a few months (in 1940) the Soviet government
quoted some BS as grounds for "breaking" the "partnership treaties",
demanded _unlimited_ number troops to be stationed in the countries
(in case with Estonia, 90,000 vs 15,000 of Estonia's own army),
and flat out demanded for new, "Soviet-friendly" government to be
installed, this time with just 8 hours to comply. Being surrounded
and outnumbered by enemy troops in their own country, they complied
again. Communist "revolutions" were staged (I loved a photo from
that day in Tallinn with a column of "revolutionaries" marching
up to the government buildings, which many newspapers printed..
after cropping away the Soviet tanks that lined the crowd from
both sides, that is), Stalinist-style "elections" were held for
the puppet government (with only Soviet-approved communists as
candidates), which in turn declared the countries Soviet Socialist
Republics and "pleaded" access to Soviet Union a few months later.

It's worth mentioning that despite all that stuff that took place
in the Baltics 1940 being unconstitutional, illegal under inter-
national law and with utmost clarity against the will of the
people.. there *never* were *any*, not even obviously fabricated
Communist-style, referendums neither about allowing Soviet bases in
the countries, nor about joining the Soviet Union. If you're
quoting Soviet history books, you might as well quote THOSE right.